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Cargando... Lake of the Prairies (2002)por Warren Cariou
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Powerful, funny, moving and personal, Lake of the Prairies is a richly layered exploration of the ubiquitous childhood question: where do I come from? Warren Cariou’s story of origin begins in the boreal Saskatchewan landscape of rock, water and muskeg that is Meadow Lake — ensconced in the ethos of the north, where there is magic in a story and fiction is worth much more than fact. Grounded in the fertile soil of Meadow Lake are two historical traditions — Native and settler. Warren Cariou’s maternal grandparents were European immigrants who cleared acres of dense forest and turned it into pasture. This land also held traces of centuries of Cree settlement —arrowheads, spear points and stone hammers, which Cariou stumbled upon as a boy. Though the tragic story of how these traditions came to share the same home would remain buried from Warren until much later, history’s painful legacy was much in view. In the schoolyard and on the street corners Warren witnessed the discrimination, anger and fear directed at the town’s Cree and Metis populations — prejudices he absorbed as his own. As an adult, Warren Cariou has been forced to confront the politics of race in Meadow Lake. He learned that a rambunctious Native schoolmate could be involved in a torture and murder that would shock the world. And then Warren discovered family secrets kept hidden for generations, secrets that would alter forever Warren’s sense of identity and belonging in Meadow Lake. In the tradition of Wallace Stegner’s classic Wolf Willow, Lake of the Prairies is an intimate and provocative memoir. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Cariou explores the racial divides in Meadow Lake( only from his perspective), dips into his family tree and introduces us to his parents and siblings. My problem with the book is that his childhood was not that interesting, his sibling are barely described, and there just wasn't much meat in his story. Cariou spends a great deal of time describing adventures in nature, fishing, hunting, digging up artifacts, etc, but then he skims over school, friends, etc. I got a good sense of his Father but not his mother, some loving glimpses at his grandparents (who seemed quite intriguing) but his sister and brother were mere sketches. The author is approx. my age, but at first I felt like the book was set in the early 30's, not the 70's! Later mentions of TV shows and popular songs were jarring.
The author learns some secrets that have been buried in the family closet, but they are not that surprising. I guess they were life-changing for him, but I didn't really feel his conflict. He also spends time on an old school mate who became infamous, but since that was not his story it felt like he was attaching himself to a scandal and internalizing it merely because they went to the same school. It felt apart from the rest of the book and took up too much space, especially since any insights Cariou offered were mere speculation.
To me, the story of the settlers in the area would have been fascinating, but Cariou's life was just not that interesting.....
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