The shoe boy

McCue, Duncan, 1971- author.

Book 2016

At age 17, Duncan McCue spent five months in a hunting cabin with a James Bay Cree family. His coming-of-age memoir of those days is frank, funny and evocative. It's also a beautiful sketch of the landscape and culture of the Cree -- a nation still recovering from massive hydroelectric projects that flooded over 11,000 square kilometres of their traditional territory. His story entqines the challenghes of identity for First Nations youth, the...

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