From the Ashes

By Jesse Thistle,

Book cover of From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way

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This #1 internationally bestselling and award-winning memoir about overcoming trauma, prejudice, and addiction by a Métis-Cree author as he struggles to find a way back to himself and his Indigenous culture is “an illuminating, inside account of homelessness, a study of survival and freedom” (Amanda Lindhout, bestselling coauthor of A…

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This is one of the best accounts of addiction I’ve ever read, mainly because it was easy to connect with the author, to understand the loneliness he must have felt even when he wasn’t explicit about it. I got a great sense of his humility, his gratitude for life and survival, and his unwillingness to blame his mistakes on others, even when he was traumatized.

This was a painful memoir of deep trauma, cultural and personal, and during much of the time I spent reading it my heart broke for Jesse Thistle, who I felt needed the hardest thing for…

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