✍ Reynolds, Jennifer
📂 Fiction
📅 2019
🌐 English
⚖ 44 KB
👁 1 views
✦ LIBER ✦
Moccasin Square Gardens: short stories
✍ Scribed by Richard Van Camp
- Publisher
- Douglas and McIntyre;Cela
- Year
- 2019;2020
- Tongue
- en-CA
- Weight
- 91 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The characters of Moccasin Square Gardens inhabit Denendeh, the land of the people north of the sixtieth parallel. These stories are filled with in-laws, outlaws and common-laws. Get ready for illegal wrestling moves ("The Camel Clutch"), pinky promises, a doctored casino, extraterrestrials or "Sky People," love, lust and prayers for peace.
While this is Van Camp's most hilarious short story collection, it's also haunted by the lurking presence of the Wheetago, human-devouring monsters of legend that have returned due to global warming and the greed of humanity. The stories in Moccasin Square Gardens show that medicine power always comes with a price.
To counteract this darkness, Van Camp weaves a funny and loving portrayal of the Tłı̨chǫ Dene and other communities of the North, drawing from oral history techniques to perfectly capture the character and texture of everyday small-town life. "Moccasin Square Gardens" is the nickname of a dance hall in the town of...
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