Small Ceremonies
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Two Indigenous boys, Tommy and Clinton, play for their high school hockey team, The Tigers—a team that hasn’t won a game in years and is supposedly cursed. The Tigers also bring together a community where a university student chooses to bottle her anger; an ex-convict must choose between protecting or exploiting his younger brother; and an aspiring journalist does everything she can to uncover why the league is threatening to remove the Tigers.
Heart-breaking yet humour-filled, Small Ceremonies is filled with individuals searching for purpose, leading them all to one fateful and tragic night.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
This heart-wrenching coming-of-age story that follows the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Indigenous high school students from Winnipeg illuminating what it’s like to grow up in Winnipeg which is a beautiful and sometimes brutal city. We nominated this compelling novel as it tells such a detailed and fascinating story of youth who are often not acknowledged. Despite it being the author’s first novel we believe it can hold its own against other books from more established writers. Much like the city of Winnipeg, an underestimated but truly powerful place! (Winnipeg Public Library)