Epic Fail by Cristy Watson6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The highlight of her summer is attending the annual powwow with her new friends.Īt the powwow after party, however, River drinks too much and posts photos online that anger people and she has her right to identify as an Indigenous person called into question. ![]() But River also discovers a deep respect for and connection with the land and her cultural traditions. On her family's nearby reserve, she learns more than she expects about the lives of Indigenous people, including the presence of Indigenous gangs and the multi-generational effects of the residential school system. ![]() Now eighteen and just finished high school, River travels to Winnipeg to spend the summer with her Indigenous father and grandmother, where she sees firsthand what it means to be an "urban Indian." The waters from a long-dry lake, resurrected by epic rains earlier this year, already lap at the levee of this Central Valley town of 22,000 people. Select the department you want to search in. ‘Epic Fail’ traces the fallout from sexual exploitation South Surrey author Cristy Watson doesn’t shy away from difficult topics in her young adult novellas. Teased about her Indigenous heritage as a young girl, she feels like she doesn't belong and struggles with her identity. Epic Fail (Lorimer SideStreets) eBook : Watson, Cristy: Amazon.in: Books. Part Ojibwe and part white, River lives with her white mother and stepfather on a farm in Ontario. ![]()
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