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Michael Christie

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Thunder Bay, Canada

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MICHAEL CHRISTIE is the award-winning author of the novel If I Fall, If I Die, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Kirkus Prize, was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice Pick, and was on numerous best-of 2015 lists. His linked collection of stories, The Beggar's Garden, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction, and won the Vancouver Book Award. His essays and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Globe & Mail.

Greenwood, his most was released in September 2019. A bestseller in Canada, it has been nominated for numerous awards.

A former carpenter and homeless shelter worker, he divides his time between Victoria, Br ...more

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	Greenwood 4.33 avg rating — 12,343 ratings — published 2019 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If I Fall, If I Die 3.33 avg rating — 2,355 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beggar's Garden 3.80 avg rating — 591 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Ideal Companion: Short Story 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Goodbye Porkpie Hat: Short Story 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“What if a family isn't a tree at all? What if it's more like a forest? A collection of individuals, pooling their resources by intertwined roots, sheltering each other from wind and weather and drought... what are families other than fictions? Stories told about a particular cluster of people for a particular reason. And like all stories, families are not born, they're invented. Pieced together from love and lies and nothing else.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

tags: families, stories, trees

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“Take heart, she seems to say. The world has been on the brink of ending before. The dust has always been waiting to swallow us. People have always struggled and suffered. Your poverty is not shameful. It is not a failure of your character. Life, by its very nature, is precarious. And your struggles are never for nothing.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

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“There aren't any normal lives, son. That's the lie that hurts us most.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

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Polls

Welk boek gaan we in mei 2021 lezen? (Nominaties maandboek mei 2021: Wildernis (dus bijv een boek over een hike, een (natuur)ramp oid))

De acht bergen van Paolo Cognetti - 239 pagina's

23 votes, 20.5%

Het zoutpad van Raynor Winn - 320 pagina's

17 votes, 15.2%

Een leven op onze planeet van David Attenborough - 272 pagina's

12 votes, 10.7%

De Wildernis in van Jon Krakauer - 284 pagina's

9 votes, 8.0%

Wild: over jezelf verliezen, terugvinden en 1700 kilometer hiken van Cheryl Strayed - 381 pagina's

8 votes, 7.1%

Dor van Neal Shusterman - 453 pagina's

7 votes, 6.3%

Greenwood van Michael Christie - 480 pagina's

6 votes, 5.4%

Terug in Amerika van Bill Bryson - 301 pagina's

6 votes, 5.4%

De uitvinder van de natuur: het avontuurlijke leven van Alexander von Humboldt van Andrea Wulf - 572 pagina's

4 votes, 3.6%

De Wadden: een geschiedenis van Mathijs Deen - 336 pagina's

4 votes, 3.6%

De Olifantenfluisteraar van Lawrence Anthony - 350 pagina's

4 votes, 3.6%

De wilde stilte van Raynor Winn - 318 pagina's

3 votes, 2.7%

Mijn leven in de wildernis van Miriam Lancewood - 407 pagina's

2 votes, 1.8%

Al het moois is niet verloren van Danielle Younge-Ullman - 319 pagina's

2 votes, 1.8%

Schemervluchten van Helen Macdonald - 304 pagina's

2 votes, 1.8%

Het hart van de zee, de tragedie van een walvisvaarder van Nathaniel Philbrick - 317 pagina's

1 vote, 0.9%

Beren op de weg van Gijs van Middelkoop - 224 pagina's

1 vote, 0.9%

Reis door de Grote Leegte van Bart de Haas - 277 pagina's

1 vote, 0.9%

De acht grote lessen van de natuur van Gary Ferguson - 237 pagina's

0 votes, 0.0%

De oude wegen: een voetreis van Robert Macfarlane - 464 pagina's

0 votes, 0.0%

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