- Indigenous peoples, Fiction
"Meet Bird and Mimi. The brilliant new novel from one of Canada's foremost authors. Inspired by a handful of old postcards, sent by Uncle Lenny nearly a hundred years before, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace the steps of Mimi's long-lost uncle and the family medicine bundle he took with him to Europe.
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Classical in form, spare, intimate and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Thomas King
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781443465465
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Thomas King was born in 1943 in Sacramento, California and is of Cherokee, Greek and German descent. He obtained his PhD from the University of Utah in 1986. He is known for works in which he addresses the marginalization of American Indians, delineates "pan-Indian" concerns and histories, and attempts to abolish common stereotypes about Native Americans. He taught Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, and at the University of Minnesota. He is currently a Professor of English at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. King has become one of the foremost writers of fiction about Canada's Native people.
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