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100 1 $aBelcourt, Billy-Ray.
245 12$aA minor chorus :$ba novel /$cBilly-Ray Belcourt.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bW.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,$c2022.
300 $a162 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 $a"A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Amid these conversations, the narrator is haunted by memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack's life parallels the narrator's own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces the dazzling literary voice of a Lambda Literary Award winner and Canadian #1 national best- selling poet to the United States, shining much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aDoctoral students$vFiction.
650 0$aSexual minorities$vFiction.
650 0$aCree Indians$vFiction.
651 0$aAlberta, Northern$vFiction.