All Gregory Scofield ever wanted to do was to belong. Born into a Metis family of Cree, Scottish, English and French descent, but never told of his heritage, Gregory knew he was different, his feelings of displacement only heightened by a family life marked by poverty, illness, abuse and loss. Separated from his mother when he was just five, sent to live with strangers and extended family, he tried to make sense of a world which often didn't make any sense at all. As he grew, clinging to the edge of an already misunderstood ...
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All Gregory Scofield ever wanted to do was to belong. Born into a Metis family of Cree, Scottish, English and French descent, but never told of his heritage, Gregory knew he was different, his feelings of displacement only heightened by a family life marked by poverty, illness, abuse and loss. Separated from his mother when he was just five, sent to live with strangers and extended family, he tried to make sense of a world which often didn't make any sense at all. As he grew, clinging to the edge of an already misunderstood society, Gregory faced his own diversity and rejection from the Native community, who were unable to accept him for himself. This is Gregory Scofield's traumatic, tender and redeeming story of his fight to discover himself -- a young man who has become an acclaimed, award-winning poet, celebrated for his sensual imagery and lyrical use of Cree words and rhythms. He is a gifted writer, inspired by his heritage, his "brothers and sisters, " and his art. Thunder Through My Veins is proof of that art, a story of wholeness, of a young man finally able to harmonize often very disparate voices into one joyful song. Universal in its themes and in the delicate but powerful emotional moments that speak to all readers, Thunder Through My Veins is a beautiful, painful and tremendously hopeful book.
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Very good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x6x1; this copy has a solid tight binding with clean unmarked pages, light edge wear to the dj, (Thunder Through My Veins will be particularly resonant for those who have struggled to trace their roots or wrestled with their identity. Author Gregory Scofield is a young Metis writer, playwright, and poet living in Vancouver. His father, a notorious con man and fugitive, was on trial the day Scofield was born; he witnessed his son's birth under police guard. Scofield's mother disappeared from his life when he was five years old. She suffered from lupus, but doctors misdiagnosed her with mental illness and subjected her to over 70 electric shock treatments. Previously loving and kind, she was a changed woman on her return, her speech slow and methodical. As Scofield recounts in Thunder Through My Veins, he managed to regain a sense of himself by tracing connections to his family's past and to the history of his people. His is a heart-wrenching story, but it's also one of great inspiration. "I often wonder if the secrecy of Mom's life, even my own, began with the shame my grandfather carried throughout his life for being Metis, " he writes. Scofield rediscovered the love of literature he first felt at his mother's side when she read to him as a child. He started writing himself; Thunder Through My Veins is his fifth book)
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