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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

Auteur(s): Drew Hayden Taylor
Narrateur(s): Drew Hayden Taylor
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A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger...and a band of marauding raccoons.

Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle - and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle, Wayne - a master of aboriginal martial arts - to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.

©2010 Drew Hayden Taylor (P)2021 Penguin Random House Canada Créateurs autochtones Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Littérature mondiale Amérindien

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National Best Seller

Finalist 2013-2014 - First Nations Communities Read

2010, Governor General's Literary Awards - Fiction, Short-listed

“Motorcycles & Sweetgrass may be concerned with aboriginal community politics, identity, mythology and intergenerational legacies, but it reads like a romp.... Yet the book’s real strength is its underlying account of a community struggling to weave an increasingly abstract traditional past with some kind of meaningful future.” (Toronto Star)

“A near-perfect debut, a masterful mythic-comedy balancing contemporary issues and realities with magic and history.... Motorcycles & Sweetgrass is a trickster story, but it’s also a fundamentally human account of individuals and of a people struggling to find a place for themselves in the world.... A broad, bawdy, raucous, deeply felt and utterly involving narrative, a genuine pleasure to read.... Motorcycles & Sweetgrass positively crackles with life, love and magic. What more can you ask of a book?” (Robert J. Wiersema, Edmonton Journal)
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That’s good in my Dene language. It’s funny and has so my references that only Indigenous people will get, that I laughed out loud to myself while listening. Definitely recommend. I will listen to it again.

So Nehzoo!

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Engaging tale, interesting characters, well read. I really enjoyed this, one of the three best inventions of white man. :)

Enjoyable

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Drew Hayden-Taylor is truly a First Nations treasure. Thank you for your insights and love.

Well done Drew.

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I truly enjoyed the story and the reader. It made it easy to feel like I was on the story.

Great book

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My book club chose this book, and I’m very grateful that they did. I found it took me a while to get into it. I wasn’t hooked until the 5th chapter. I normally would have given up on a book by then, but since I needed to read it for the club, I pressed on. I was pleasantly surprised with how much I came to adore this light hearted easy read.

Give it a chance!

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This has to be one of the best books I have ever read and I'm an avid reader! It is exquisitely written, the storytelling is amazing and the performance is exceptional. In addition, it's not only funny but the lessons expressed in the myth are memorable.

Fantastic book, I highly recommend it

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Lots of humour. Detailed descriptions of the motorcycle, boobs, guy dating woes, and fight scenes.
Most chars are male, but the female chars are more level-headed, sort of. Haha.
So it was a welcome departure from what I normally read haha.
There was also information about some of the issues confronted by the Indigenous people of Canada humorously woven into the plot.
Overall, a fun read, and I wish there more of Drew Hayden Taylor’s novels on Audible!!!!!

Fun Read

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loved every minute of it. I also think it would make a great movie.

great story

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