Jesse Thistle

From the Ashes

My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this extraordinary and inspiring memoir, Jesse Thistle, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781982101213
• ISBN-10: 1982101210
• Artikelnr.: 55665241

Autorenporträt

Jesse Thistle is Métis-Cree, from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and an assistant professor in Humanities at York University in Toronto. From the Ashes was the top-selling Canadian book in 2020, the winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction, Indigenous Voices Award, and High Plains Book Award, and also a finalist for CBC Canada Reads. Jesse won a Governor General’s Academic Medal in 2016, and is a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholar and a Vanier Scholar. A frequent keynote speaker, he lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with his wife, Lucie, and is at work on multiple projects, including his next book. Visit him at JesseThistle.com.