Living by Stories
A Journey of Landscape and Memory
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Following on two previous collections? Write It on Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller (1989) and Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller (2004), Talonbooks is pleased to announce the release of this third volume of oral narratives by Okanagan storyteller Harry Robinson.
Living by Stories includes a number of classic stories set in the “mythological age” about the trickster/transformer, Coyote, and his efforts to rid the world of bad people, spatla or “monsters,” but this new volume is more important for its presentation of historical narratives set in the more recent past.
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“Whenever I need to be reminded that language is magic and that stories can change the world, I go to Robinson.”
— Thomas King