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“Rather than change the world, a novel could index a longing for something else, for a different arrangement of bodies, feelings, and environments in which human flourishing wasn't inhibited for the marginalized, which seemed as urgent an act of rebellion as any.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A Minor Chorus

“My novel, then, would be a kind of literary ethnography of sadness and hope, of constraint and possibility.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A Minor Chorus

“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.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A Minor Chorus

“Death itself wasn't nearly as devastating as what the human drive to stay alive causes us to accumulate over time … the world devastates us without end and still we are hungry and hungrier. What dazzling logic.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A Minor Chorus