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Prairie Edge

Conor Kerr

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#4534 of 8,085 books · #1443 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize (2024).

Prairie Edge was shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize. Meet Isidore "Ezzy" Desjarlais and Grey Ginther: two distant Métis cousins making the most of Grey's uncle's old trailer, passing their days playing endless games of cribbage and cracking cans of cheap beer in between. Grey, once a passionate advocate for change, has been hardened and turned cynical by an activist culture she thinks has turned performative and lazy. One night, though, she has a revelation, and enlists Ezzy, who is hopelessly devoted to her but eager to avoid the authorities after a life in and out of the group home system and jail, for a bold yet dangerous political mission: capture a herd of bison from a national park and set them free in downtown Edmonton, disrupting the churn of settler routine. But as Grey becomes increasingly single-minded in her newfound calling, their act of protest puts the pair and those close to them in peril, with devastating and sometimes fatal consequences.

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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-13
9781452971100
Topics
Indigenous identity and activismColonialism and resistanceFamily and loyalty

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