Best First Nations non-fiction 2021! MIND BLOWING GOOD!
Permanent Astonishment by Tomson Highway Permanent Astonishment is a book by Tomson Highway. (Doubleday Canada, Sean Howard) Permanent Astonishment is a memoir by acclaimed writer Tomson Highway. Highway was born the 11th of 12 children in a nomadic caribou-hunting Cree family. Surrounded by the love of his family and the vast landscape of his home, he lived an idyllic far-north childhood. But five of his siblings died in childhood, and his parents wanted their two youngest sons, Tomson and Rene, to get big opportunities. This memoir offers insight into the Cree experience of culture, conquest and survival. Permanent Astonishment won the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction . Tomson Highway's memoir, Permanent Astonishment , is written as 'a symphony to life' Highway is a Cree novelist, children's author, playwright and musician. Born in Manitoba, he is a member of the Barren Lands First Nation. His work includes Canadian ...
