A Minor Chorus By Billy-Ray Belcourt Material:Soft Cover I like to be standing

I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens

and Xie Lian's centuries of troubled history are never far behind

lazy afternoon

attractive professor Nicholas Brodeur and gets to know his charismatic

in Penguin Classics

A Minor Chorus By Billy-Ray Belcourt Material:Soft Cover I like to be standingIn Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy Ray Belcourts unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart to heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his