A Really Good Brown Girl by Marilyn Dumont
$12.00 – $20.00
Deluxe redesign of the Gerald Lampert Award–winning classic
8.75 x 6 Inches | 123 Pages
Publication Date: August 15, 2015
Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781771313452
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EPUB + PDF $12 |
On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fourth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of A Really Good Brown Girl features a new Introduction by Lee Maracle, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst.
First published in 1996, A Really Good Brown Girl is a fierce, honest and courageous account of what it takes to grow into one’s self and one’s Métis heritage in the face of myriad institutional and cultural obstacles. It is an indispensable contribution to Canadian literature.
Praise for A Really Good Brown Girl:
“No other book so exonerates us, elevates us and at the same time indicts Canada in language so eloquent it almost hurts to hear it.” — Lee Maracle, from the Introduction
Press Coverage:
8 classic books by Indigenous writers that deserve another look — CBC
Rita Bouvier recommends A Really Good Brown Girl by Marilyn Dumont — CBC
Contemporary Classics — Canadian Literature
About the Author
Marilyn Dumont is a celebrated poet of Métis ancestry. Her first collection of poetry, A Really Good Brown Girl (1996), won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets; it continues to be read and course-adopted across Canada and in the US. Her most recent book, The Pemmican Eaters (2015), won the 2016 Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award. She has been the writer-in-residence at five Canadian universities and the Edmonton Public Library as well as an advisor in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program at the Banff Centre. She is a full professor of Indigenous Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.
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