Black Water - by David A Robertson (Paperback)

Black Water is a memoir about intergenerational trauma and healing, connection, and how Don's life informed David's own.

This book is a love letter about coming home, tackling identity and racism, family bonds and breaks with nuance and honesty.

It explores Cree values and ideas and their richness and relevance in contemporary life.

The author takes us through the story of one Indigenous family's journey through the twentieth century in Canada, facing horrors and great loss but also extraordinary warmth and heroics and a family who refused to ever be defined by anyone but themselves.

This book is an essential and timely read, rich in lore and insight and compassion.

It is a deeply moving story about kinship and love, building an emotional crescendo that is both intimate and expansive.

Black Water is a beautiful story of family and cultural ties remade anew, with a narrator who is not afraid to turn on himself, balancing recrimination and self-implication, rage and forgiveness.

This book will leave you emotionally moved and inspired to take action.