![]() In 1990 Rene Highway, a world-renowned dancer, died of an AIDS-related illness. A year later Rene joined him to begin the rest of their education. And so when Tomson was six, he was flown south by float plane to attend a residential school. But five of Tomson’s siblings died in childhood, and Balazee and Joe Highway, who loved their surviving children profoundly, wanted their two youngest sons, Tomson and Rene, to enjoy opportunities as big as the world. ![]() Surrounded by the love of his family and the vast, mesmerizing landscape they called home, his was in many ways an idyllic far-north childhood. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky alive with stars, sucking the juices from roasted muskrat tails, and singing country music songs with his impossibly beautiful older sister and her teenaged friends. Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Right now, our focus is on local authors of varying genres and backgrounds, so we hope you’re excited to dive in. (And don’t worry, we’ll provide an easy-to-access link to the stream, so all you have to do is click.) You’ll be able to submit questions ahead of time, or drop them into one of the live chat boxes during the meeting. We’ll send a couple of follow up notes to check in on your progress and suggest a few discussion topics and questions to think about as you go.Īt the end of the month, we’ll all gather to participate in a livestream book club meeting, hosted by our books editor, Ben Sigurdson, or one of our pals from McNally Robinson Booksellers, as well as the author of the book. To help ease some of the isolation-related boredom, we’ve started a monthly book club which will run completely online and is open to anyone and everyone to join.Įach month, we will choose a novel and share it on this page, as well as in an email to those who have registered to participate.
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