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Despite its short length, this book is quite complex. It's replete with themes and I'm not sure where to even begin with this review. It takes place right at the continental divide, and it's a borderland between the world of the old inhabitants, the Shuswap nation, and the world of the colonised east. It's in a borderland between myth and reality. In this land, there's more land than people. The people blink into then out of existence, leaving only legends if they leave anything at all. Women ar
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