The Obituary Picture Book victim and transgressor

victim and transgressor

While the men of the colony are off in the city

a dapper businessman who lives across the valley

and doormen

A Vagrant is the wittiest book of the year

The Obituary Picture Book victim and transgressorby Gail Scott In order to traverse a city where identity is tagged by accent, Rosine, Gail Scott's part Indigenous protagonist, performs an ever shifting amalgam, ventriloquizing often suspect voices, both contemporaneous and ancestral. Her inability to claim a legacy becomes a trajectory of disjunctions where place, language, and race are lived through in the most detailed ways, fostering schisms that challenge what narrative has come to mean under