As Long as the Rivers Flow

As Long as the Rivers Flow
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Publisher : Knopf Canada
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9780307398765
ISBN-13 : 0307398765
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Book Synopsis As Long as the Rivers Flow by : James Bartleman

Download or read book As Long as the Rivers Flow written by James Bartleman and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the accomplished memoirist and former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario comes a first novel of incredible heart and spirit for every Canadian. The novel follows one girl, Martha, from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is "stolen" from her family at the age of six and flown far away to residential school. She doesn't speak English but is punished for speaking her native language; most terrifying and bewildering, she is also "fed" to the school's attendant priest with an attraction to little girls. Ten long years later, Martha finds her way home again, barely able to speak her native tongue. The memories of abuse at the residential school are so strong that she tries to drown her feelings in drink, and when she gives birth to her beloved son, Spider, he is taken away by Children's Aid to Toronto. In time, she has a baby girl, Raven, whom she decides to leave in the care of her mother while she braves the bewildering strangeness of the big city to find her son and bring him home.


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