Mason Dubisee grapples with the disparity between his childhood dreams and his current reality as a thirty-year-old drug-addled drifter. Once filled with imaginative aspirations ranging from Jedi to rock star, he now struggles with his identity as an aspiring novelist, unable to progress beyond mere lists of ideas. This exploration of lost potential and self-discovery highlights the conflict between dreams and the harshness of adulthood.
Jenna Metcalf was with her mother the night she disappeared, but she remembers nothing. In the wake of those tragic events, she has lost not one parent, but two: her father is in an asylum, and now she lives with her grandmother - who finds it too painful to talk about what happened. Ten years on, Jenna is the only one who still seems to care. And she is determined to seek the truth, no matter how shocking and life-changing it might be . . . -- page 4 of cover.
Un jeune Métis aborigène de peau blanche s'interroge sur ses origines. Parqué dans une réserve, il pense à l'histoire de son grand-père, Ern, un Blanc qui pensait qu'en se mariant avec une Aborigène celle-ci serait acceptée par la société blanche mais qui, sous la pression, finit par la chasser