The Morning Bell Brings the Broken Hearted - Softcover

Manuel, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1771623195 ISBN 13: 9781771623193

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

Exploring the intricacies of power, culture and emotion when a non-Indigenous person moves to an Indigenous community as an educator, Jennifer Manuel casts a spell as captivating and perceptive as in her bestselling novel The Heaviness of Things That Float.

When new teacher Molleigh Royston moves to Tawakin—a remote Nuu-chah-nulth community in the Pacific Northwest—she arrives with good intentions. However, as she struggles to understand and help her students, doubts begin to accumulate—including doubts about her own motivations. Things escalate when three students start behaving strangely and Molleigh makes a serious cultural transgression, triggering a series of disturbing events in the village. Giant boulders are placed in front of Molleigh’s house, furniture moves mysteriously and flowers erupt in flame.

The Morning Bell Brings the Broken Hearted is a captivating story about the complexity of hope and the limits of good intent, offering a grave look at how the education system fails remote Indigenous communities, leaving Indigenous students, with all their brilliance and resilience, in the hands of transient educators.

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer Manuel has achieved acclaim for her fiction, and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her debut novel, The Heaviness of Things That Float (2016). A long-time activist in Indigenous issues, Manuel taught elementary and high school in the lands of the Tahltan and Nuu-chah-nulth peoples. She lives on Vancouver Island, BC.

Edition details

• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771623195
• ISBN 13: 9781771623193
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272