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4.49 AVERAGE
4.49 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
emotional
medium-paced
Lovely story about a young girl who marries into an indigenous community and they embrace her as their own so much so that at the end she considers herself one of them. Heartbreaking story of how colonization affected the indigenous communities and stripped them of their heritage and culture. Trigger warnings: residential schools mention as well as miscarriage, alcohol, death.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Immersive. Transportive imagery and descriptions. Michel Jean presents the richness of traditional indigenous life and culture and allows us to fall in love with it, be at home and at peace in it as his great grandmother was. Then your heart is shattered and you're filled with rage against the colonial project that destroyed the land, the lives, the languages, the cultures and the spirits of so many indigenous people.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
This is a beautifully written book about lost identity and importance of roots. Almanda will be forever be remembered as Kukum (grandma)
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A fabulous story of an amazing woman. At 15, this Irish orphan marries an 18 year old Innu and raises 9 children in the bush. She sees the death of the nomadic life of the Innu and how it destroyed them. A must read for anyone interested in Indigenous life and the effects of colonialism. Beautifully written.
Un récit touchant qui nous imprègne du rythme de la forêt, des saisons et de la vie Innue avant l’arrivée musclée des blancs. Si la lecture de Kukum est d’abord apaisante, sa finale nous laisse avec un cocktail de sentiments lourds : tristesse, amertume, incompréhension, deuil, nostalgie. Michel Jean a su, par son écriture, nous faire vivre la perte de contrôle sur la temporalité de la vie, et sur tout ce qui y était relié, des Innus.