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As long as the rivers flow / James Bartleman.
"The novel follows one girl, Martha, from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is “stolen” from her family at the age of six and flown far away to residential school. She doesn’t speak English but is punished for speaking her native language; most terrifying and bewildering, she is also “fed” to the school’s attendant priest with an attraction to little girls. Ten long years later, Martha finds her way home, barely able to speak her native tongue. The memories of abuse at the residential school are so strong that she tries to drown her feelings in drink, and when she gives birth to her beloved son, Spider, he is taken away by Children’s Aid to Toronto. In time, she has a baby girl, Raven, whom she decides to leave in the care of her mother while she braves the bewildering strangeness of the big city to find her son and bring him home."-- Provided by Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307398758
- Physical Description: xiii, 250 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Edition: Vintage Canada edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2011.
- Copyright: ©2011
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- 7 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Terrace Public Library | BAR (Text) | 35151001106780 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Anahim Lake Branch | BAR (Text) | 33923004762328 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC BAR (Text) | 35136000279290 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Hazelton Public Library | Fic (Text) | 35154000025233 | Adult Fiction - Main Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Prince Rupert Library | Bart (Text) | 33294001742410 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Stewart Public Library | F BAR (Text) | 32238000285781 | Adult Fiction | Not holdable | Missing | 2011-07-12 |
| Tatla Lake Branch | BAR (Text) | 33923005157437 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Trail and District Public Library Main Branch | F BAR (Text) | 35110001341631 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
JAMES BARTLEMAN rose from humble circumstances in Port Carling, Ontario, to become Foreign Policy Advisor to the right PM Chrétien in 1994. After a distinguished career of more than thirty-five years in the Canadian foreign service, in 2002 he became the first Native Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario. He is the author of the prize-winning memoir Out of Muskoka.
