![]() ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() The author’s concern about these issues is rooted in her own experience as a non-Indigenous teacher to Indigenous children. The moral ambiguity of the well-meaning outsider and her interventions into their life broods over both books. In her Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize-winning debut novel, 2016’s The Heaviness of Things Than Float, the protagonist, a nurse, is another non-Indigenous woman who has worked among the Indigenous. This is not the first time Manuel has grappled with this problematic material. Forty-six steps I no longer wanted to take.” The Morning Bell brings the Broken Hearted by Jennifer Manuel. The book’s opening lines set the stage for a subtle, sophisticated narrative that explores themes of racism, misogyny, the power of story, self-worth and self-doubt: “From the front door of my grey trailer home, my commute across the old logging road to the school took precisely 46 steps. At the story’s beginning, Molleigh is already discouraged by the challenges presented by her traumatized students and the dark history of colonialism and torments that haunt the village and the children she wants to help. Molleigh Royston - of settler ancestry - is the novel’s protagonist, a middle-aged teacher trying to make a go of her new calling in a remote Indigenous village on the B.C. Get email updates from your favourite authors. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Īccess articles from across Canada with one account.
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