A minor chorus : a novel / Billy-Ray Belcourt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belcourt, Billy-Ray, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Doctoral students--Fiction.

Doctoral students.

Sexual minorities--Fiction.

Sexual minorities.

Cree Indians--Fiction.

Cree Indians.

Alberta, Northern--Fiction.

Alberta, Northern.

LGBTQ+ people.

Genre:

Novels.

LGBTQ+ fiction

Physical Description:

162 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

"A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Amid these conversations, the narrator is haunted by memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack's life parallels the narrator's own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces the dazzling literary voice of a Lambda Literary Award winner and Canadian #1 national best-selling poet to the United States, shining much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781324021421

132402142X

OCLC:

1294283222