Motorcycles Sweetgrass, Drew Hayden Taylor
Motorcycles Sweetgrass, Drew Hayden Taylor
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

Author: Drew Hayden Taylor

Narrator: Drew Hayden Taylor

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 06/01/2021

Synopsis

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.
 
Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.

About The Author

DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR is an Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations and has worn many hats in his literary career, including performing stand-up comedy at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; lecturing at the British Museum on the films of Sherman Alexie; and being Artistic Director of Canada's premiere Native theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts. He is an award-winning playwright, a journalist/columnist, a short-story writer, a novelist, a television scriptwriter, and has worked on numerous documentaries exploring the Native experience. In recent years, he has proudly served as the Writer-in-Residence at various universities and theatre companies across Canada.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on April 14, 2010

Ok just before I post this review I would just like to say -- This is Canadian -- and it is FANTASTIC -- finally a piece of Canadian literature that showcases our sense of humor and doesn't depress the crap out of you! I also would love to chat with this author on how much I loved his book and about......more

Goodreads review by Kyla on December 31, 2024

Read this book for English class. Definitely the most chaotic book I’ve ever read for school omg. It was for sure interesting with a lot of great moments. Ahhh I hope my essay comes out well 🤪......more

Goodreads review by Indrani on December 08, 2012

This book is somewhat about what it is to be Anishnawbe, and very much about what it is to be human. It is very Canadian: polite, with a sense of humour that pokes at the person telling the joke as much as it does anyone else. Mr. Taylor draws us into a modern-day tale of Nanabush (he of many names......more

Goodreads review by Nadine on November 28, 2015

I finished this book with a sense of disappointment - that it hadn't really provided me with a striking plot or left me with a sense that something profound had been share with me. It wasn't until I started to talk with others who read it that I began to understand the depth behind the silly and qui......more

Goodreads review by hannahᖭི༏ᖫྀ on January 08, 2022

i actually really liked this book! i had to read it for one of my lectures in university and even though i had to read it on a pdf file (i hate it never gonna do it again) it was an interesting story with even more interesting characters!......more

Quotes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST 2013–2014 – First Nations Communities Read
 
“A near-perfect debut, a masterful mythic-comedy balancing contemporary issues and realities with magic and history. . . . Motorcycles & Sweetgrass is a trickster story, but it’s also a fundamentally human account of individuals and of a people struggling to find a place for themselves in the world. . . . A broad, bawdy, raucous, deeply felt and utterly involving narrative, a genuine pleasure to read. . . . Motorcycles & Sweetgrass positively crackles with life, love and magic. What more can you ask of a book?” —Robert J. Wiersema, Edmonton Journal
 
“A winning comedy.” —The Globe and Mail
 
“Motorcycles & Sweetgrass may be concerned with aboriginal community politics, identity, mythology and intergenerational legacies, but it reads like a romp. . . . Yet the book’s real strength is its underlying account of a community struggling to weave an increasingly abstract traditional past with some kind of meaningful future.” —Toronto Star
 
“Drew Hayden Taylor’s got no qualms about poking fun at his Native roots, and that’s what makes Motorcycles & Sweetgrass such a pleasure. It’s playful yet soulful, with a narrative that keeps those pages turning. . . . A fun, rollicking book, and Taylor’s voice is fresh and unique.” —NOW (Toronto)
 
“Taylor brings a modern twist to ancient native folklore. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass is a charming story about the importance of balance and belief—and a little bit of magic—in everyone’s life.” —Quill & Quire

“Fast-paced, uproariously funny and genuinely thrilling. Drew Hayden Taylor is one of Canada’s finest and funniest writers." —Ian Ferguson, author of Village of the Small Houses
 
“Funny, heartfelt, hopeful and illuminating. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass made me laugh and made me think, sometimes in the same sentence. Drew Hayden Taylor is a master storyteller.” —Terry Fallis, author of The Best Laid Plans

“Drew Hayden Taylor has woven an epic tale of magic, mystery and charm for the world to discover in Motorcycles & Sweetgrass. This is a novel to savor. A complete delight!” —Richard Van Camp, author of The Moon of Letting Go and The Lesser Blessed

Awards

  • Governor General's Literary Awards - Fiction
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