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Empire of Wild

Cherie Dimaline

  • 320 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2019
  • 8 editions
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1 About this book

Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year--ever since that terrible night they'd had their first serious argument hours before he mysteriously vanished. Her Me tis family has lived in their tightly knit rural community for generations, but no one keeps the old ways...until they have to. That moment has arrived for Joan.

Joan turns to Ajean, an elderly foul-mouthed card shark who is one of the few among her community steeped in the traditions of her people and knowledgeable about their ancient enemies. With the help of the old Me tis and her peculiar Johnny-Cash-loving, twelve-year-old nephew Zeus, Joan must find a way to uncover the truth...Her life, and those of everyone she loves, depends upon it.

Good for readers who want: a thriller and werewolves.

  • Thrillers
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Occult & supernatural
  • Women
  • Native Americans
  • Missing persons
  • Métis
  • Werewolves

2 About Cherie Dimaline

Born 1975

Cherie Dimaline is a writer and a member of the Georgian Bay Métis Council of the Métis Nation of Ontario. She is most notable for her 2017 young adult novel The Marrow Thieves, which explores the continued colonial exploitation of Indigenous peoples. Dimaline won the award for Fiction Book of the Year at the Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival for her first novel, Red Rooms.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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