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Black Water
Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory | David A. Robertson
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“An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open and with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family, identity, and love.” —Cherie Dimaline A son who grew up away from his Indigenous culture takes his Cree father on a trip to their family's trapline, and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds but creates a new future. The son of a Cree father and a non-Indigenous mother, David A. Robertson was raised with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family’s Indigenous roots. His father, Don, spent his early childhood on a trapline in the bush northeast of Norway House, Manitoba, where his first teach was the land. When his family was moved permanently to a nearby reserve, Don was not permitted to speak Cree at school unless in secret with his friends and lost the knowledge he had been gifted while living on his trapline. His mother, Beverly, grew up in a small Manitoba town with not a single Indigenous family in it. Then Don arrived, the new United Church minister, and they fell in love. Structured around a father-son journey to the northern trapline where Robertson and his father will reclaim their connection to the land, Black Water is the story of another journey: a young man seeking to understand his father's story, to come to terms with his lifelong experience with anxiety, and to finally piece together his own blood memory, the parts of his identity that are woven into the fabric of his DNA.
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Stats time! After a longish drought, October gave me a couple of new-to-me 5-star reads: the tagged book and FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST VOL 27 by Hiromu Arakawa. Hurray!

I also reread one of my ultimate faves (CORAMBIS by Sarah Monette) and found 3 4.5-star reads: FMA Vols 25 & 26 and THE BRIDE TEST by Helen Hoang.

Oh, and I hit my TBR reduction stretch goal like it was no big deal.

October was a pretty good month for books.

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I nabbed an Express copy of BLACK WATER this morning, then took a good, long walk with it after an appointment. It‘s an excellent dive into Robertson‘s childhood as a half-Cree boy whose parents kept his Indigeneity from him, his father‘s life as a minister and educator, and all the issues those focuses churn up. #audiowalk