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Indian Horse
by Richard Wagamese
An Ojibwe boy. A residential school. Hockey as the only way out.
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Saul Indian Horse is Ojibwe, taken from his family and placed in a residential school, where he discovers he has an extraordinary gift for hockey. The ice becomes his escape — from the school, from the abuse, from the dismantling of his identity that the school is designed to accomplish. Then the hockey world shows him that escape is not the same as freedom. Wagamese — who himself survived the residential school system — writes about hockey and about genocide with equal precision. The most devastating Canadian novel about residential schools and the most beautiful about what a person can make of the fragments left behind.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Canada • North America
- Voice
- Written by a Canadian author
- Themes
- After Empire
