My copy of Thomas King’s book was bought the year it came out in 1989, shameful that it has taken me 34 years to get around to reading it. To be fair the characters were much recycled on King’s Dead Dog Cafe Series aired on CBC and is still available for purchase on i-Tunes Canadian Site. For the record Medicine River runs out of Medicine Lake near Rocky Mountain House Alberta but no such community exists. The general neighbourhood is mid-way between Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta and the other communities mentioned are real including Hobbema having the dubious distinction of being the most violent location in all Canada. Sad to say that the characters in this book speak of members of other tribes in the same racist terms used to describe First Nations Peoples by Whites.
Filled with colourful characters.
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