“If anything would save two Cree boys from the throes of a world that wasn't built for them it would be love and little else.”
― A Minor Chorus
― A Minor Chorus
“How instead to make a novel into a bomb? How to plant a novel in the moral infrastructure of a corrupt nation? How to write sentences that go tick, tick, tick?”
― A Minor Chorus
― A Minor Chorus
“I was interested in how a singular voice, when heard from a sociological distance, implicated a larger population, in how the autobiographical was rarely an individualistic mode; all of its wonder and devastation was social.”
― A Minor Chorus
― A Minor Chorus
“Maybe early on I determined I didn't have to live … I just had to be alive.”
― A Minor Chorus
― A Minor Chorus
“My novel, then, would be a kind of literary ethnography of sadness and hope, of constraint and possibility.”
― A Minor Chorus
― A Minor Chorus
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