Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction
The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he's a good-for-nothing who, like all Indians, can look forward to a life of drunkenness, prison and despair.
The reserve, however, offers nothing to Nipishish. He remembers little of his late mother and father. In fact, he seems to know less about himself than the people at the band office. He must try to rediscover the old ways, face the officials who find him a threat, and learn the truth about his father's death.
- ISBN10 0888996160
- ISBN13 9780888996169
- Publish Date 17 June 2004
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
- Edition First Trade Paper Edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English