Monkey Beach
By: Eden Robinson
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
If you liked the indigenous plot in Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. The Lesser Blessed
By: Richard Van Camp
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A fresh, funny look at growing up Native in the North, by award-winning author Richard Van Camp. … read more
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- canada
- native american
- young adult
- indigenous
- fiction
- contemporary
2. Green Grass, Running Water
By: Thomas King
4.03
Format: 469 pages, Paperback
Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Nativ… read more
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- magical realism
- canada
- native american
- indigenous
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
"Look,"-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
"The Lone Ranger, Ishmael, Robinson Crusoe, and Hawkeye stood in the parking lot of the Blossom Lodge. Beyond the concrete and the asphalt and the cars, beneath the deep curve of the sky, the prairies…"-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
"Every July, when Eli was growing up, his mother would close the cabin and move the family to the Sun Dance. Eli would help the other men set up the tepee, and then he and Norma and Camelot would run …"-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
3. Medicine Walk
By: Richard Wagamese
4.30
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the mos… read more
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- canada
- native american
- indigenous
- fiction
- contemporary
"There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment."-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk
"She's a tale spinner," he said. "She spins 'em right outta the air. Tells 'em whole so's you'd think yer readin' a book."-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk
"There was a feeling in him like a bruise, a purple ache that set between his ribs. He tasted a cry building at the back of his throat. It was too familiar and made him fearful."-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk
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- fiction
- canada
5. Celia's Song
By: Lee Maracle
4.50
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her v… read more
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- magical realism
- canada
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
6. The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts
By: Tomson Highway
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play Nominated for the Governor General's Award T… read more
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- fiction
- canada
7. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake … read more
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- magical realism
- canada
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
8. Indian Horse
By: Richard Wagamese
4.42
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant reside… read more
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- fiction
- canada
"I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are."-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unra…"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past shoals and through rapids and into magnificent stretches of water. One day the clouds …"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never gave a thought to being deprived as we travelled, to be…"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
9. The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.97
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- fantasy
- canada
"When we heal our land, we are healed also."-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
10. Keeper'n Me
By: Richard Wagamese
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and … read more
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12. Kiss of the Fur Queen
By: Tomson Highway
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are al… read more
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13. The Jade Peony
By: Wayson Choy
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
"Beautifully written. . . . It renders a complex and complete human world, which by the end we have… read more
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14. The Tin Flute
By: Gabrielle Roy , Philip Stratford
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy's first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy's uni… read more
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15. Medicine River
By: Thomas King
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother's funeral. He does… read more
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16. The Break
By: Katherena Vermette
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more
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17. Cockroach
By: Rawi Hage
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Cockroachtakes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal's restless immigrant co… read more
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18. The Back of the Turtle
By: Thomas King
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
This is Thomas King's first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winn… read more
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19. Birdie
By: Tracey Lindberg
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Monkey Beachmeets Green Grass, Running Watermeets The Beachcombersin this wise and funny novel by a… read more
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20. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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- fiction
- canada
21. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
3.85
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more
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- fiction
- canada
- indigenous
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
22. Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
3.91
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more
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- magical realism
- canada
- indigenous
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
23. Jonny Appleseed
By: Joshua Whitehead
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more
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- canada
- indigenous
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"I am my own best medicine."-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
24. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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- magical realism
- canada
- indigenous
- fiction
- mystery
- fantasy
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
25. Nishga
By: Jordan Abel
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastati… read more
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- canada
- indigenous
26. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island
By: Kent Monkman
4.31
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformati… read more
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- canada
- indigenous
27. undercurrent
By: Rita Wong
3.65
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The water belongs to itself. undercurrent reflects on the power and sacredness of water--largely un… read more
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- canada
28. Prairie Edge
By: Conor Kerr
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more
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- canada
- indigenous
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- novels
29. Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies)
By: Daniel Heath Justice
4.49
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary p… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"We’re stubborn people, queer folks and Indians and queer Indians alike. Green shoots rise quickly from burnt-over earth—and rarely, if ever, in solitude."-Daniel Heath Justice, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies)
30. real ones
By: Katherena Vermette
4.10
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- canada
- indigenous
31. Monkey Beach
By: Eden Robinson
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more
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- magical realism
- canada
- native american
- young adult
- indigenous
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- novels
- fantasy
"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
