A compelling debut novel and deft exploration of the delicate dynamic between First Nations communities and non-native outsiders from writer Jennifer Manuel.

Jennifer Manuel has achieved acclaim for her fiction, and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her debut novel, The Heaviness of Things That Float (2016). A long-time activist in Indigenous issues, Manuel taught elementary and high school in the lands of the Tahltan and Nuu-chah-nulth peoples. She lives on Vancouver Island, BC.