Born with a tooth /

"The thirteen stories in Born With A Tooth are diverse in subject matter, ranging from a butterfly-costumed boy fascinated by the world of professional wrestling, to a young woman who falls in love with a wolf, to the lead singer of an all-girl Native punk band. What they have in common is Boyden's writing, a style infused with grace and power. The stories in this collection travel in the four directions of the compass: "East" brings labour, and the stories of three women who work and share the pain of raising children; "South" conjures ruin, stories of self-destruction; "West" brings forth running, stories of water and children who leave; "North" is home. Boyden's Northern Ontario reserves are places of poverty, violence, humor, and redemption; his Cree and Ojibwa people are not fragile. They've been here ten thousand years. They survive." - Provided by Publisher

Call Number: 
PS8553 .O9358 B67 2008
Title Responsibility: 
Joseph Boyden.
Author Information: 
Joseph Boyden grew up in Toronto, where he attended York University. Born With A Tooth, his first book, was short-listed for the Upper Canada Writers' Craft Award. His second book, Three Day Road, won the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award. Joseph now lives in New Oreleans with his wife, novelist Amanda Boyden, where he teaches creative writing and Canadian Literature at the University of New Orleans.
Production Place: 
Toronto :
Producer: 
Cormorant Books,
Production Date: 
c2008.
Band Tribe Geography Time: 
Northern Ontario
Recommended For: 
Research
Catalogue Key: 
6632153
Law Subject(s): 
Law and Literature