Title: Coming home : stories from the Northwest Territories /
Publisher: Enfield & Wizenty,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Canadian literature (English) Northwest Territories.; Canadian literature (English); Canadian literature Northwest Territories.; Canadian literature
Abstract: "Eighteen stories by NWT writers that express the diversity of the region, speaking from many points of view. The foreword is by the renowned storyteller and NWT author Richard Van Camp. Included are stories of teenage angst in small communities; connection with the land; the Giant Mine strike of 1992; relationships both failed and renewed in Yellowknife; getting lost in the bush; Europeans shipwrecked and saved by Inuit; Inuit taken on board by Europeans; learning from elders and other cultures; a wonky tourism outing; going to jail for breaking a dog bylaw and many more."--pub. website.
Contents: FICTION -- The points / Colin Henderson -- Finding home / Jordan Carpenter -- Born a girl / Richard Van Camp -- Angatkuq / Marcus Jackson -- Celia's inner anorexic / Annelies Pool -- Haunted Hill Mine / Cathy Jewison -- My Epiphany / Rebecca Aylward -- Jailbird / Patti-Kay Hamilton -- Homecoming / Cara Loverock -- Dirty rascal -- Christine Raves -- The long gun / Shawn McCann -- NON-FICTION -- Lost / Amber Lee Kolson -- Ts'ankui Theda, the Kindness of the Lake / Brian Penney -- Beauty of the Butte / Karen McColl -- For us / January Go -- Children of the strike [Giant Mine Strike 1992, Yellowknife] / Jamesie Fournier -- Where they belong / Jessie c. MacKenzie