Saltus 2001 2017 Speaker's Book Award

2017 Speaker's Book Award

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Saltus 2001 2017 Speaker's Book AwardSaltus by Tara Gereaux from the QuAppelle Valley in Saskatchewan and of Mtis and European heritage, is a work of fiction set in the 90s in a small Canadian prairie town and fourteen year old Aaron Gourlay, born a male, asserts that she is female, a claim that no one in her life will acceptexcept for her single mother, Nadine. After wrestling with the health care system and having her identity invalidated time and time again, Aaron tries to kill