Truth and Bright Water

Description

Thomas King is a writer of lyrical, comic poignancy, and a best-selling author in Canada.Of his latest novel, Newsday wrote, “Thomas King has quietly and gorgeously done it again”.
Truth & Bright Water tells of a summer in the life of Tecumseh and Lum, young Native-American cousins coming of age in the Montana town of Truth, and the Bright Water Reserve across the river in Alberta.It opens with a mysterious woman with a suitcase, throwing things into the river — then jumping in herself.
Tecumseh and Lum go to help, but she and her truck have disappeared.
Other mysteries puzzle Tecumseh: whether his mom will take his dad back; if his rolling-stone aunt is home to stay; why no one protects Lum from his father’s rages.
Then Tecumseh gets a job helping an artist — Bright Water’s most famous son — with the project of a lifetime.
As Truth and Bright Water prepare for the Indian Days festival, their secrets come together in a climax of tragedy, reconciliation, and love.