Fire Song, Adam Garnet Jones
Fire Song, Adam Garnet Jones
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Fire Song

Author: Adam Garnet Jones

Narrator: Dillan Meighan Chiblow

Unabridged: 6 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 12/01/2018


Synopsis

How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves—his friend, David.Things go from bad to worse as Shane's dream of going to university is shattered and his grieving mother withdraws from the world. Worst of all, he and David have to hide their relationship from everyone. Shane feels that his only chance of a better life is moving to Toronto, but David refuses to join him. When yet another tragedy strikes, the two boys have to make difficult choices about their future together.With deep insight into the life of Indigenous people on the reserve, this book masterfully portrays how a community looks to the past for guidance and comfort while fearing a future of poverty and shame. Shane's rocky road to finding himself takes many twists and turns, but ultimately ends with him on a path that doesn't always offer easy answers, but one that leaves the reader optimistic about his fate.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elle on April 06, 2018

So the thing about this book is it’s… a good book that doesn’t go very far. I really dark and didn’t give me the emotional payoff I wanted from that darkness. I hate saying this because this word has gotten emptier by the year, but this is actually a really important story. This story is ownvoices fo......more

Goodreads review by Cori on July 03, 2018

This is definitely an important story, but unfortunately the execution wasn't phenomenal. This is the novelization of an award winning film of the same name, which I'm curious to see.......more

Goodreads review by Jess on January 28, 2019

This book was provided for free by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This is a hard book. Like really, really hard--so hard that I had to put the book down and stop a few times because the darkness is thick and relentless and creeps up right when you think it might finally be going away. Bu......more

Goodreads review by Biz on February 24, 2018

i just want to give everyone in this book a big hug and tell them that everything will be okay......more

Goodreads review by sanjna on May 30, 2022

4.5 stars JUST BECAUSE i hated the cheating trope so much but i did love this book very much, the way grief was written was so real, and also the fact that this is the first indigenous lgbt book i’ve ever read is crazy. even though i had to read it for school, i genuinely enjoyed reading it and wann......more