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Cariou dexterously and lovingly evokes a sense of place as he guides his reader on a tour of Meadow Lake. The book is most affecting when the author examines how over generations, despite the strained, ugly, and riven relations between the aboriginal and "White settler" populations, their destinies became strangely, often secretly intertwined--much to the astonishment of their descendants, Warren Cariou included. This societal autopsy serves as the impetus for discussing an event that stunned and brought shame to a nation--namely, the involvement of a local Native man in the infamous torture and murder of a Somali youth during a Canadian peacekeeping mission. Cariou shows a different side to the face that was plastered all over the news, the face of a Native kid who, having achieved some authority and power over others, just may have been taking revenge for abuses and injustices meted out to him in the past.
It is disappointing, then, that this earnest, thoughtful memoir is ultimately undermined by the sentimentality of the writer's tribute to homeland and the father who passed away. The end result is a book that, while holding much promise, remains but a tentative investigation of some burning issues with which all Canadians, like the writer, must eventually come to terms. --Diana Kuprel --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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“Lake of the Prairies is a fine addition to our literature of exile and belonging. This book arrives as a welcome balm for the wounds we experience as a nation that continues to abandon its rural routes (and roots). Cariou’s narrative, with its abundant humour, humanity, and humility, quickens the old and poignant truths that have always attended our wanderings away from home and back again.” -- Trevor Herriot, author of River in a Dry Land
“Warren Cariou is humorous while always being thoughtful, and his descriptive power is exceptional. He is one of the very best young writers of our time.” -- Alistair MacLeod
“Cariou’s writing achieves everything great art should aim to do. It finds something basic and universal in all of us, the beautiful and the profane, and gracefully delivers us to a more enlightened understanding of the relationships that bless and haunt us all.” -- Dennis Bock, author of The Ash Garden
“This memoir is beautifully crafted, artful in its construction, and as with all good memoirs is, in the end, truly penetrating in its analysis-by-hindsight of what can happen to those less privileged than Cariou himself was, in such a backwater as Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. His evocation of this historic area of forests, marshes, muskeg and lakes reveals a world we otherwise would not have been fortunate enough to know.” -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning
“Meadow Lake is now officially on the Canadian literary map, and so is Warren Cariou.” -- The Globe and Mail
“It is a superb book, and an honest one too. It is also a gentle book, a humane work that is enlightened and powered by the kind of understanding which can benefit us all.” -- The Edmonton Journal
“Cariou is wise beyond his years . . . with his lyrical voice, love of nature and sensitivity to place . . . a lovely book . . . dive in and enjoy.” -- The Calgary Herald
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