Rita Joe is a Native girl who leaves the reservation for the city, only to die on skid row as a victim of white men’s violence and paternalistic attitudes towards First Nations peoples. As perhaps the
Summerland completes the publication project Talonbooks began in 1990, with the publication ofThe Athabasca Ryga, a collection of Ryga’s early writings from his Alberta years until 1963. The 1960s, af
James Hoffman, George Ryga’s biographer, provides a brilliant guide to the reader of this collection, with a compelling reappraisal of Ryga’s fiction as far ahead of its time. The three short novels i
