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Books are generally available as books and audio books through The St. Catharines Public Library
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The Long Exile by Melanie McGrath
(Harper Perennial, 2007) A chilling true story of deception and survival set amidst the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic. In 1922 the Irish-American explorer Robert Flaherty made a film called ‘Nanook of the North’ which captured the world's imagination. Soon afterwards, he quit the Arctic for good, leaving behind his bastard son, Joseph, to grow up Eskimo. Thirty years later a young, inexperienced policeman, Ross Gibson, was asked by the Canadian government to draw up a list of Inuit who were to be resettled in the uninhabited polar Arctic and left to fend as best they could. Joseph Flaherty and his family were on that list. They were told they were going to an Arctic Eden of spring flowers and polar bears. But it didn't turn out that way, and this, Joseph Flaherty's story, tells how it did. Join us for a discussion via Zoom:
Thursday, April 25th at 7:00pm Email [email protected] to register! |
Previously Read
Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers, Racism, Death, And Hard Truths in a Northern City (House of Anansi, 2017)
Jesse Wente, Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance (Penguin Canada, 2022)
Grant Hayter-Menzies, Woo, The Monkey who inspired Emily Carr. A Biography (Douglas & McIntyre, 2019)
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Picador, 2016)
Ross King, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010)
Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lillies (Penguin Random House, 2016)
Katherine Ashenburg, Sofie & Cecelia (Penguin Random House, 2018)
Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red (Penguin Random House, 2010)
Blake Gopnik, Warhol, (Harper Collins Canada, 2020)
Emma Donoghue, Akin, (Harper Collins Canada, 2019)
Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter, (Penguin Random House, 1997)
Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone, (Penguin Random House Canada, 1985)
Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, (Picador, 2021)
Dominic Smith The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, (Sarah Crichton Books, 2016)
Jesse Wente, Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance (Penguin Canada, 2022)
Grant Hayter-Menzies, Woo, The Monkey who inspired Emily Carr. A Biography (Douglas & McIntyre, 2019)
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Picador, 2016)
Ross King, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010)
Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lillies (Penguin Random House, 2016)
Katherine Ashenburg, Sofie & Cecelia (Penguin Random House, 2018)
Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red (Penguin Random House, 2010)
Blake Gopnik, Warhol, (Harper Collins Canada, 2020)
Emma Donoghue, Akin, (Harper Collins Canada, 2019)
Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter, (Penguin Random House, 1997)
Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone, (Penguin Random House Canada, 1985)
Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, (Picador, 2021)
Dominic Smith The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, (Sarah Crichton Books, 2016)