A Minor Chorus

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Price
$15.95  $14.83
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
Pages
176
Dimensions
5.47 X 8.28 X 0.43 inches | 0.33 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781324021421

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About the Author

Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is Canada's first First Nations Rhodes Scholar. This Wound Is a World was awarded the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and a 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. He is also the author of NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field.

Reviews
An absolutely dazzling confluence of big ideas and raw emotions, told in Billy-Ray Belcourt's singular poetic voice. A Minor Chorus is about loving, questioning, and fighting for your life, and it's as compelling a debut novel as I've read in years.--Jami Attenberg, author of I Came All This Way to Meet You
No one breaks your heart as elegantly as Billy-Ray Belcourt. Innovative, intimate, and meticulous.--Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster
A Minor Chorus is a rare gem of a book. We will be reading and rereading A Minor Chorus for decades to come.--Alicia Elliott, author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
A truly exceptional novel about how the disregarded sometimes live the most remarkable lives. A Minor Chorus is like a song that's over too soon; I want to play it on repeat, to memorize the words so that I can sing them to myself.--Katherena Vermette, author of The Strangers
An achingly gorgeous debut novel of Indigenous survival...This is a breathtaking and hypnotic achievement.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
Following his essay collection, A History of My Brief Body, poet Belcourt, from the Driftpile Cree Nation, continues his exploration of Indigenous trauma and queerness in this erudite debut novel...Smart, thoughtful.--Kathy Sexton "Booklist"
With his first novel, wunderkind Belcourt cements what has become increasingly clear across two poetry collections and a memoiristic book of essays: he is a fearless writer... [A Minor Chorus is] a ruminative constellation of ideas regarding colonial trauma, heteropatriarchy, and the innate sociality of writing; Belcourt's boldest, freest, and most linguistically assured work yet.-- "Library Journal (starred review)"
A Minor Chorus is a feat of technical brilliance, a novel that questions the worth of writing even as it asserts its own value. It is a slippery, scholarly work, rooted in the layered complexity of Indigenous life.--Laura Sackton "BookPage (starred review)"