Sufferance

By Thomas King,

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Jeremiah Camp, a.k.a. the Forecaster, can look into the heart of humanity and see the patterns that create opportunities and profits for the rich and powerful. Problem is, Camp has looked one too many times, has seen what he hadn’t expected to see and has come away from the abyss…

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This book is what I would call a slow read - it seems as though little is happening and yet, everything is happening.

The main character appears to be a puzzle and yet you know someone just like him. He is part of a community, yet fights it, even when a family comes to live in his large home - which is a former residential school.

The residential school looms as though it is a character in this book - looming, always there, as life goes on in the village and on the indigenous reserve. And you witness this man’s…

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