Description
Winner of the 2020 PMC Indigenous Literature Award
When Ralph Thomas comes across graffiti of a horse in an alleyway in the early hours of the morning, he is stopped in his tracks. He recognizes this horse. A half-asleep Indigenous homeless man sees Ralph's reaction to the horse and calls out to him. Over the course of a morning's worth of hot coffee on a bitterly cold day, Ralph and the homeless man talk and Ralph remembers a troubling moment from his childhood when an odd little girl, Danielle, drew the most beautiful and intriguing horse on his mother's Everything Wall, winning the competition set up for children on the Otter Lake Reserve.
Ralph has lived with many questions that arose from his eleventh winter. What did the horse mean -- to him, his sister, his best friend, and, most importantly, the girl who drew it? These questions have never left him.
Chasing Painted Horses has a magical, fablelike quality that will enchant readers, and haunt them, for years to come.
Author: Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher: Cormorant Books
Published: 08/17/2021
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781770866089
ISBN10: 1770866086
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Indigenous