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Our Voice of Fire

A Memoir of a Warrior Rising

by Brandi Morin
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Winner, 2024 Writers' Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award
Winner, 2023 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction
Finalist, 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi Morin set to transform the narrative around Indigenous Peoples.
Brandi Morin is known for her clear-eyed and empathetic reporting on Indigenous oppression in North America. She is also a survivor of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls crisis and uses her experience to tell the stories of those who did not survive the rampant violence. From her time as a foster kid and runaway who fell victim to predatory men and an oppressive system to her career as an internationally acclaimed journalist, Our Voice of Fire chronicles Morin's journey to overcome enormous adversity and find her purpose, and her power, through journalism. This compelling, honest book is full of self-compassion and the purifying fire of a pursuit for justice.

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  • Release date

    August 2, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781487012014
      • File size: 148475 KB
      • Duration: 05:09:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      July 1, 2022
      While Indigenous women make up 4 percent of the Canadian population, they account for 24 percent of the female homicide victims. Debut memoirist Morin, a journalist of Cree, Iroquois, and French heritage, writes honestly about growing up in Alberta, Canada, cutting straight to the bone and exposing the realities of generational trauma and the experience of being an Indigenous woman. Morin's kohkum (grandmother) was forced into a residential school, causing aftershocks of suffering in her immediate family: an environment ripe with violence, sexual abuse, mental illness, and addiction that eventually lands Morin in a group home for troubled teens. This becomes the epicenter of Morin's rage against the colonization machine and leads her down a broken path. After making it out of the group home, Morin has to choose between following a destructive path or carving a new trail, and selects the latter, becoming a voice for her indigenous Canadian community and working as a sought-after journalist. Her powerful and necessary work is required reading for all readers seeking to better know the realities and buried truths of the Indigenous experience.

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