Monkey Beach

Lisamarie is Haisla Nation, from Kitamaat on the BC coast, and she can see ghosts. Her brother Jimmy has disappeared at sea and she sets out to find him, the novel moving between the present search and the childhood that shaped her — the residential school legacy, the drug trade, the specific beauty and violence of the coastal landscape, the spirits that the Western world insists don't exist. Robinson writes Indigenous supernatural experience as simply true, which is the most radical formal choice on this shelf. A dispatch from inside a world that colonial Canada spent a century trying to erase.