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From the AshesJesse Thistle

From the Ashes

Jesse Thistle
2019368 pages
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards Winner, High Plains Book Awards Finalist, CBC Canada Reads A Globe and Mail Book of the Year An Indigo Book of the Year A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the Year In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is. If I can just make it to the next minute...then I might have a chance to live; I…

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6 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2021
    Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781797131405
  • Paperback · English · 2019
    Simon & Schuster · 368 pages · 9781982101213
  • Other · English · 2021
    Atria Books · 9781982182946
  • Other · English · 2021
    Cengage Gale · 677 pages · 9781432892470
  • Other · English · 2021
    Atria Books · 9781982182953
  • Other · English · 2019
    Simon & Schuster · 9781982101237
MétisBiographyCree IndiansHomeless personsAddictsIndigenous peoples in CanadaHomelessness in literatureDrug addiction