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Book SynopsisA novel from the dark heart of early twentieth-century Alberta, featuring a new introduction by Dr. Lily Cho.
A bully cattle rancher upends the lives of everyone he encounters and a pandemic makes those lives even more precarious. A full century after its first publication, Cattle remains a story of brutality. A curious Canadian mixture of Hardy and Steinbeck,Cattle is built on the deep contradictions of a settler ideology, asking readers to not look away from the many modes of violence bound up in Canadian history.
Our Throwback books also give back: a percentage of each book’s sales will be donated to a designated Canadian cultural organization. Royalties from sales of Cattle benefit Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter.
Trade Review"I was shocked when I taught Cattle for the first time. My students found it so fresh and so immediate. The novel addresses so many contemporary issues: #MeToo, settler colonialism, a pandemic, and more. In the same year that the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, Eaton even makes space for heroism on the part of a vulnerable Chinese man separated from his family and working for a brute of a man."—Dr. Mary Chapman, Professor at the University of British Columbia and Director of the Winnifred Eaton Archive
"If you're a fan of the hit TV series Yellowstone and its prequel 1923, you are going to absolutely love this novel."—Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
