Crossing the Continent
Michel Tremblay
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a Cree mother and a French father, Réauna, affectionately known throughout Tremblay’s work as Nana,” was sent with her two younger sisters, Béa and Alice, to be raised on her maternal grandparents’ farm in Sainte-Maria-de-Saskatchewan, a francophone Catholic enclave of two hundred souls. At the age of ten, amid swaying fields of wheat under the idyllic prairie sky of her loving foster family, Nana is suddenly told by her mother, whom she hasn’t seen in five years and who now lives in Montreal, to come home” and help take care of her new baby brother.
So it is that Nana, with her faint recollection of the smell of the sea, embarks alone on an epic journey by train through Regina, Winnipeg, and Ottawa, on which she encounters a dizzying array of strangers and distant relatives, including Ti-Lou, the she-wolf of Ottawa.”
To our delight, Michel Tremblay here takes his reader...
So it is that Nana, with her faint recollection of the smell of the sea, embarks alone on an epic journey by train through Regina, Winnipeg, and Ottawa, on which she encounters a dizzying array of strangers and distant relatives, including Ti-Lou, the she-wolf of Ottawa.”
To our delight, Michel Tremblay here takes his reader...
Year:
2012
Publisher:
Talonbooks
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
0889227306
ISBN 13:
9780889227309
File:
EPUB, 784 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2012