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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Short chapters are like individual pieces of a complex patchwork quilt telling the story of a First Nations womanreturning home near Sept-Iles Quebec to be a high school teacher. The patchwork show aspects of a her college career, her longterm relationship with a non-native Quebecois, her return to remote Quebec to take up a position teaching French language and literature, her relationship with other teachers, with students, with family, with a new man. Most importantly, she discovers her self, her First Nations self, and her teaching self. The emotional similarity with "To Sir, With Love" is strong, but here the teacher is an Innu and the students are Innu. It's a quick, uplifting read, but I would have appreciated more character detail. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
In Naomi Fontaine's Governor General's Literary Award finalist, a young teacher's return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students, reminding us of the importance of hope in the face of despair. After fifteen years of exile, Yammie, a young Innu woman, has come back to her home in Uashat, on Quebec's North Shore. She has returned to teach at the local school but finds a community stalked by despair. Yammie will do anything to help her students. When she accepts a position directing the end-of-year play, she sees an opportunity for the youth to take charge of themselves. In writing both spare and polyphonic, Naomi Fontaine honestly portrays a year of Yammie's teaching and of the lives of her students, dislocated, embattled, and ultimately, possibly, triumphant. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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