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YWCA Racial Justice Book Club

Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

2023-04-25 19:00:00 2023-04-25 20:30:00 America/Chicago YWCA Racial Justice Book Club Join thoughtful discussions on topics of racial justice. Everyone is welcome. Register for Zoom link. Email mericsson@tscpl.org with questions or for a copy of the current book. Zoom - ywcaneks.org/what-we-do/advocate/racial-justice-book-club

Tuesday, April 25
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Add to Calendar 2023-04-25 19:00:00 2023-04-25 20:30:00 America/Chicago YWCA Racial Justice Book Club Join thoughtful discussions on topics of racial justice. Everyone is welcome. Register for Zoom link. Email mericsson@tscpl.org with questions or for a copy of the current book. Zoom - ywcaneks.org/what-we-do/advocate/racial-justice-book-club

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ywcaneks.org/what-we-do/advocate/racial-justice-book-club

Join thoughtful discussions on topics of racial justice. Everyone is welcome. Register for Zoom link. Email mericsson@tscpl.org with questions or for a copy of the current book.

Our April title is Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese. Email mericsson@tscpl.org for assistance in obtaining a copy of the current title. 

We have discussions on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Stay updated about Racial Justice Book Club information including receiving the meeting details and Zoom link by signing up: ywcaneks.org/what-we-do/advocate/racial-justice-book-club

More About the Book

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his story. With him, readers embark on a journey back through the life he’s led as a northern Ojibway, with all its joys and sorrows.

With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he’s sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Virtual | Books/Authors/Writing |

Venue details


Stay updated about Racial Justice Book Club information including receiving the meeting details and Zoom link by signing up: ywcaneks.org/what-we-do/advocate/racial-justice-book-club