02221cam a2200337 i 4500 607974226 TxGeo 20221014120000.0 220613s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022027215 9781324021421 trade pbk. 132402142X trade pbk. (OCoLC)1294283222 TxGeo rda Belcourt, Billy-Ray, author. A minor chorus : a novel / Billy-Ray Belcourt. First edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022] 162 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Amid these conversations, the narrator is haunted by memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack's life parallels the narrator's own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces the dazzling literary voice of a Lambda Literary Award winner and Canadian #1 national best-selling poet to the United States, shining much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival"-- Provided by publisher. 20221121. Doctoral students Fiction. Sexual minorities Fiction. Cree Indians Fiction. Alberta, Northern Fiction. Gay fiction. QS5