Monkey Beach Iñupiaq and plants

and plants

Billy-Ray Belcourt’s voice is uniquely plangent and self-aware

The story has been told many times

" —Elizabeth Fenn

including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau

Monkey Beach Iñupiaq and plantsTragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family's handsome seventeen year old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search and rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret. She sets off alone in search of Jimmy through the Douglas Channel and heads for Monkey Beach a shore famed for its sasquatch sightings. Infused by turns with darkness and humour, Monkey Beach is a