All the Quiet Places: a Novel
- Authors
- Brian Thomas Isaac
- Publisher
- Touchwood Editions
- Date
- 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.46 MB
- Lang
- en
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for FictionLonglisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller PrizeA National BestsellerWinner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Book of 2021
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What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Toma's passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or perhaps a compensation, by his remarkable awareness of its beauty. This is a writer who understands youth, and how to tell a story. Gil Adamson, winner of the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Ridgerunner
Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, an Indigenous (Syilx) boy, told through the young...