![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s my first venture with a novel into the contemporary world, and it’s actually about the grandchildren of characters in the first novel,” Boyden explains. Through Black Spruce takes us to the island of Manhattan, far from the woodlands of the first novel. These are, after all, their stories-the stories of their ancestors. The Giller Prize is one of the richest awards in Canada, and Joseph Boyden hopes to use part of the prize money to establish an Aboriginal Student Scholarship Fund. ![]() Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, CBA Fiction Book of the Year, and the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year, and it was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Through Black Spruce also took home a fistful of awards, including the Giller Prize, the Canadian Authors Association MOSAID Technologies Inc. Through Black Spruce is the sequel to Joseph Boyden’s award-winning bestselling first novel Three Day Road, part of a projected trilogy in which two fictional James Bay Cree families (the Birds and the Whiskeyjacks) work out the complex intertwined histories of several generations. ![]()
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