Dawn Dumont
Autor de Nobody Cries at Bingo
Obras de Dawn Dumont
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Walker, Dawn Marie
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Saskatchewan, Canada
- Ocupaciones
- actor
comedian
author
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 140
- Popularidad
- #146,473
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 20
- Idiomas
- 1
Three young people from a Saskatchewan reserve end up in Saskatoon. Nellie, Julie and Everett meet Taz who is from a northern reserve. There's a lot of drinking and partying while the four figure out their roles in life.Nellie has always been attracted to Everett but he plays the field including with Julie. Taz has dreams of being the Grand Chief and Nellie has the intelligence and organizational skills to make that happen. But Taz ends up with Julie and eventually Nellie and Everett settle down when Nellie has a baby. Julie left Taz and Saskatoon for a while to work in northern Alberta. We eventually find out that Julie had been pregnant and lost the baby after Taz hit her. When they get back together they try hard to have another baby but nothing seems to work. Until it does but maybe Everett had a role to play in Julie getting pregnant. Regardless when Taz repeats his violence Julie leaves him and moves in with Everett and Nellie. And then Nellie decides to run for Grand Chief against Taz and Everett has a showdown with Taz. So at the end, as in the beginning, the three from the one reserve are supporting each other.
This book is written as a series of interconnected short stories so there are abrupt changes of scene and jumps in time that can be a little jarring. Nevertheless because of the excellent writing and characterization this is a book that sticks with the reader long after the actual reading is finished.… (más)