ISBN: 9781926639710
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In his darkest hour, the night in which his son, Amorak, is stranded in the middle of an Arctic snowstorm, Jimmy Whitefox, a First Nation elder from the Northwest Territories, is forced to face the fact that his only child is a violent husband and father who has destroyed the lives of those who live with him. While his son fights the elements and his own sinister demons under the most unforgiving of conditions, Jimmy re-creates his own past for his sleeping granddaughter Jiewa, in an attempt to make her understand the origin of her family’s pain and the suffering of her people. There, in the quiet darkness that precedes dawn, stories arise, poignant and sweet, sometimes brutal and sometimes prodigious. The vibrant, passionate spirit of the Tli-Cho Nation and their beautiful, magical, and sometimes lethal environment are shared in this compelling work of fiction.
“Lloret has captured Whitefox’s life down to such intimate details as the different smells of bodies, while showing how such differences can separate or unite a man and his own people. Her language is memorable and evocative, conjuring the harsh beauty of a place where you can watch your breath ‘freeze in the air and drop over your shoulders like a twinkling rain of silver sparks.’ If ever there were a Canadian book destined to become a film, this would be it.”—Jeffrey Round, author of Lake on the Mountain
“Wolf in a Beaver Coat engages readers into the perilous life of the North, and the people that have resided there for centuries.”—Fairview Post
Canadian–Spanish author Rosario Lloret was born in Madrid, Spain. She moved to Canada in 2003 and lived in the Northwest Territories for six years. She currently resides in Hudson’s Hope, BC, with her husband and three daughters. Wolf in a Beaver Coat is her first novel.
