***INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARDS 2021, PUBLISHED PROSE IN ENGLISH: CREATIVE NON-FICTION AND LIFE-WRITING: FINALIST*** ***FIRST NATION COMMUNITIES READ AWARDS 2021/22: LONGLIST*** ***NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS, REGIONAL (NON-FICTION): FINALIST*** ***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S 2020 MOST PROMISING AUTHOR AWARD*** ***BMO WINTERSET AWARD 2020 LONGLIST*** In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor. Weaving through multiple genres and traditions, Approaching Fire fashions a textual documentary of rescue and insight, and a glowing contemplation of the ways in which loss can generate unbridled renewal.
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