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Indians on Vacation

  • 304 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2020
  • 3 editions

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1 About this book

Meet Bird and Mimi. The brilliant new novel from one of Canada's foremost authors. Inspired by a handful of old postcards, sent by Uncle Lenny nearly a hundred years before, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace the steps of Mimi's long-lost uncle and the family medicine bundle he took with him to Europe.

By turns witty, sly and poignant, this is the unforgettable tale of one couple's holiday trip to Prague. The often grumpy Bird and optimistic Mimi and their wanderings through the European capitals reveal a complicated history, both personal and political.

  • Indigenous peoples

2 About Thomas King

Born 1943

Thomas King (born April 24, 1943) is an American-born Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about First Nations. Though he previously said that he was of partial Cherokee descent, King accepted findings by genealogists in 2025 that he has no Indigenous ancestry.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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