Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
  • Published: 17 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781039000612
  • Imprint: Knopf Canadian Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 360
  • RRP: $45.00

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A beloved story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger, and a band of marauding raccoons--now as a Penguin Modern Classic.

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.
  • Published: 17 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781039000612
  • Imprint: Knopf Canadian Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 360
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

Praise for Motorcycles & Sweetgrass:

  • "[Motorcycles & Sweetgrass] is a broad, bawdy, raucous, deeply felt and utterly involving narrative, a genuine pleasure to read. . . . [The book] positively crackles with life, love and magic. What more can you ask of a book?" --The Edmonton Journal
  • "Taylor brings a modern twist to ancient native folklore. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass is a charming story about the importance of balance and belief--and a little bit of magic--in everyone's life." --Quill & Quire
  • "A winning comedy." --The Globe and Mail
  • "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
  • "Motorcycles & Sweetgrass [is] such a pleasure. It's playful yet soulful, with a narrative that keeps those pages turning. . . . A fun, rollicking book, and Taylor's voice is fresh and unique." --NOW (Toronto)
  • "Funny, heartfelt, hopeful and illuminating. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass made me laugh and made me think, sometimes in the same sentence. Drew Hayden Taylor is a master storyteller." --Terry Fallis, author of The Best Laid Plans