Seven feather5/7/2023 ![]() Recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Talaga’s is a book to be justly infuriated by.” - Globe and Mail “What is happening in Thunder Bay is particularly destructive, but Talaga makes clear how Thunder Bay is symptomatic, not the problem itself. The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.” - Publisher's Weekly “Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising. ![]() Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.” - Booklist “n urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from their homes and families. She lives in Toronto with her two teenage children. Her mother was raised in Raith and Graham, Ontario. Her grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation. Her great-grandfather, Russell Bowen, was an Ojibwe trapper and labourer. Her great-grandmother, Liz Gauthier, was a residential school survivor. ![]() Talaga is of Polish and Indigenous descent. She has been nominated five times for the Michener Award in public service journalism. For more than twenty years she has been a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a columnist at the newspaper. Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer, and author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward. TANYA TALAGA is the acclaimed author of Seven Fallen Feathers, which was the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities READ: Young Adult/Adult Award a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, and a national bestseller.
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