![]() ![]() Saul’s career progresses from unofficial tournaments at makeshift hockey rinks to the minor league in Toronto. While his classmates succumb to disease, abuse, and suicide, Saul escapes when his natural talent for hockey lands him a spot on a local Ojibway team in 1966. Jerome’s, a Catholic boarding school run to forcefully assimilate indigenous children and “remove the Indian” from them. After his grandmother succumbs to the cold, Saul is sent to St. Saul is left alone with his grandmother the two then flee the family’s ancestral home on Gods Lake to Minaki, trying to escape the cold. He finds himself in this situation after his parents set off to bury his brother and are never seen again. ![]() At the beginning of this haunting and masterful novel from the late Wagamese (1955–2017), eight-year-old Saul Indian Horse is alone, having been abandoned in a blizzard in rural Ontario in 1961. ![]()
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