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Book SynopsisLonglisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize
A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief.
Trade Review"An absolutely dazzling confluence of big ideas and raw emotions, told in Billy-Ray Belcourt’s singular poetic voice.
A Minor Chorus is about loving, questioning, and fighting for your life, and it’s as compelling a debut novel as I’ve read in years." -- Jami Attenberg, author of I Came All This Way to Meet You
"No one breaks your heart as elegantly as Billy-Ray Belcourt. Innovative, intimate, and meticulous." -- Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster
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A Minor Chorus is a rare gem of a book. We will be reading and rereading
A Minor Chorus for decades to come." -- Alicia Elliott, author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
"A truly exceptional novel about how the disregarded sometimes live the most remarkable lives.
A Minor Chorus is like a song that’s over too soon; I want to play it on repeat, to memorize the words so that I can sing them to myself." -- Katherena Vermette, author of The Strangers
"An achingly gorgeous debut novel of Indigenous survival…This is a breathtaking and hypnotic achievement." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Following his essay collection,
A History of My Brief Body, poet Belcourt, from the Driftpile Cree Nation, continues his exploration of Indigenous trauma and queerness in this erudite debut novel…Smart, thoughtful." -- Kathy Sexton - Booklist
"With his first novel, wunderkind Belcourt cements what has become increasingly clear across two poetry collections and a memoiristic book of essays: he is a fearless writer... [
A Minor Chorus is] a ruminative constellation of ideas regarding colonial trauma, heteropatriarchy, and the innate sociality of writing; Belcourt’s boldest, freest, and most linguistically assured work yet." -- Library Journal (starred review)
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A Minor Chorus is a feat of technical brilliance, a novel that questions the worth of writing even as it asserts its own value. It is a slippery, scholarly work, rooted in the layered complexity of Indigenous life." -- Laura Sackton - BookPage (starred review)
