A Minor Chorus
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A Minor Chorus

  1. 193 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Minor Chorus

About this book

An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness. What ensues is a series of conversations, connections, and disconnections that reveals the texture of life in a town literature has left unexplored, where the friction between possibility and constraint provides an insistent background score. Whether he' s meeting with an auntie distraught over the imprisonment of her grandson, engaging in rez gossip with his cousin at a pow wow, or lingering in bed with a married man after a hotel room hookup, the narrator makes space for those in his orbit to divulge their private joys and miseries, testing the theory that storytelling can make us feel less lonely. Populated by characters as alive and vast as the boreal forest, and culminating in a breathtaking crescendo, A Minor Chorus is a novel about how deeply entangled the sayable and unsayable can become – and about how ordinary life, when pressed, can produce hauntingly beautiful music.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for A Minor Chorus
  3. Author Biography
  4. Also by Billy-Ray Belcourt
  5. Imprint Page
  6. Title Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Prologue
  9. Chapter 1: A Problem of Form
  10. Chapter 2: A Gust of Life
  11. Chapter 3: A Familiar Face
  12. A Memory
  13. Chapter 4: People Were Crying
  14. Chapter 5: Years and Years
  15. Interlude: Art
  16. A Memory
  17. Chapter 6: Motherhood
  18. Chapter 7: No Trespassing
  19. A Memory
  20. Interlude: Hegemony
  21. Chapter 8: Small Terrors
  22. Chapter 9: A History of Freedom
  23. A Memory
  24. Chapter 10: Highway 2
  25. Interlude: August
  26. Chapter 11: Testimony
  27. Notes and Acknowledgments