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Author:

Jean, Michel, 1960- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjT4rYHR6HgBkvKfJBXVC

Title:

Kukum / Michel Jean ; translated by Susan Ouriou.

Publisher:

Arachnide,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

208 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Subject:

Jean, Michel,--1960---Family--Fiction.
Jean, Michel,--1960-
Inuit--Canada--Fiction.
French-Canadian women--Fiction.
Families
French-Canadian women
Inuit
Canada
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction
Fiction
Biographical fiction.

Other Authors:

Ouriou, Susan, translator.

Other Titles:

Kukum. English

Notes:

Translation of: Kukum.

Summary:

"A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean's great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community. Kukum recounts the story of Almanda Siméon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love with a young Innu man despite their cultural differences and goes on to share her life with the Pekuakami Innu community. They accept her as one of their own: Almanda learns their language, how to live a nomadic existence, and begins to break down the barriers imposed on Indigenous women. Unfolding over the course of a century, the novel details the end of traditional ways of life for the Innu, as Almanda and her family face the loss of their land and confinement to reserves, and the enduring violence of residential schools. Kukum intimately expresses the importance of Innu ancestral values and the need for freedom nomadic peoples feel to this day."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1487010907
9781487010904

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1340032227

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)