Weird Rules to Follow

Key Selling Points

• A young Indigenous girl growing up in the 1980s learns some hard lessons about friendship, family and cultural differences.

• This coming-of-age debut novel explores the themes of racism, microaggressions and friendship through a series of vignettes.

Weird Rules to Follow • offers a glimpse of life in a remote coastal fishing community from an Indigenous perspective.

• The author is Indigenous and a graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio, where she specialized in creative nonfiction.

• The narrative is told in “scenes from a life” episodes that form a cohesive whole.

Weird Rules to Follow • won a 2024 PNBA Book Award, the 2023 IODE Violet Downey Book Award, the 2023 Jean Little First-Novel Award, the 2023 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the 2023 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

© 2024 Orca Book Publishers (Hörbuch): 9781459842533

Erscheinungsdatum

Hörbuch: 1. Oktober 2024