This Place
150 Years Retold
In graphic novel format, Indigenous writers explore the untold stories of the past, present, and future in what is now Canada.
La description
Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through Indigenous wonderworks, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact.
Récompenses
- Winner, McNally Robinson Book of the Year 2020
- Winner, Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Award, Graphic Novel 2021
- Nominated, Doug Wright Award for Best Book 2020
- Winner, Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher 2020
- Winner, Cybils Award, Young Adult Graphic Novels 2019
- Nominated, Gene Day Award for Anthology Collections 2020
Reviews
Ambitious in scope and strong in execution, this collection succeeds in prompting readers to remember (or learn) Indigenous history
- Elisa Gall
This Place is the graphic novel I’ve waited for my whole life, and the graphic novel Canada has needed for 150 years.
The stories contained within its pages are both beautifully rendered and vitally necessary. They represent a history not only largely untold and unknown, but one obscured, hidden from sight, so that other stories may occupy a privileged place in defining a national story. Their importance is exquisitely captured on these pages, told by some of the leading artists working today. This is an essential book, for comic fans, teachers, and anyone who wants to learn the stories of this place we now share.
- Jesse Wente, broadcaster and film critic
a solid addition to....curriculum...as it specifically addresses social, political, economic and cultural challenges in Indigenous communities. Most importantly, the collection points Indigenous students toward seeing themselves, hearing their own voices and stories, and reading about the perspectives of their ancestors and their communities.
- Jennifer Wyatt
[A] breathtaking comics anthology...this mix of powerful storytelling and memorable illustrations is a place to begin a dialogue with Indigenous peoples in Canada.
- Jeffrey Canton
This is the power of storytelling. It's going deeper and truer than the history books and the newspaper accounts. It's bringing the stories to the people for the people and doing it for the right reasons: to teach and to illuminate. This Place: 150 Years Retold is the dawn to a new storytelling tradition that doesn't need to be held back. It should be shouted forward from now on.
- Helen Kubiw
Selected for School Library Journal's Best Books 2019, Best Graphic Novels
- School Library Journal
this collection provides invaluable opportunity to hear voices that are featured all too rarely in literature and is a worthwhile addition to collections.
- Summer Hayes
An illuminating, self-assured graphic novel anthology in which every panel reads like a radical act.
- Kirkus Reviews
Selected for AICL's Best Books of 2019
- Debbie Reese