Permanent Astonishment: Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky Teens remembering a long-ago time of

remembering a long-ago time of hopeless connection and now finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension

Portraying himself as a failure

“If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa

In Italo Calvino’s cosmicomics

Permanent Astonishment: Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky Teens remembering a long-ago time ofWINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * NOMINATED FOR THE EVERGREEN AWARD * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, AND CBC Capricious, big hearted, an epic memoir from one of Canada's most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou hunting Cree family. Growing up in a