Borders
On a trip to visit his older sister, who has moved away from the family home on the reserve to Salt Lake City, a young boy and his mother are posed a simple question with a not-so-simple answer. Are you Canadian, the border guards ask, or American? "Blackfoot." And when border guards will not accept their citizenship, mother and son wind up trapped in an all-too-real limbo between nations that do not recognize who they are. A powerful graphic-novel adaptation of one of Thomas King's most celebrated short stories, Borders explores themes of identity and belonging, and is a poignant depiction of the significance of a nation's physical borders from an Indigenous perspective. This timeless story is brought to vibrant, piercing life by the singular vision of artist Natasha Donovan.
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- ISBN: 9781443460675
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Physical Description
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171 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | NFPL Indigenous Collection. "The text of Borders was previously published, in slightly different form, as the short story "Borders" in Thomas King's One good story, that one, originally published in 1993 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd"--Title page verso. |