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Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik
Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik
Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik
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Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik

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A 23-year-old woman enters a whole new world of attraction in a community struggling with generations of loss of land and culture. Yasmeen's tradition-bound mother wants her to stay in Montreal, get married, and have babies. But the young Syrian-Canadian wants more. Her appetite for adventure leads her to a teaching job in the northern Quebec village of Saqijuvik. Eager to adopt her new home and its Inuit inhabitants, Yasmeen embraces every experience that comes her way: camping on the tundra, hunting for ptarmigan, sewing with the local ladies. She plunges into her northern adventure, no holds barred. But it's 1983 and instead of the ideal, pristine Arctic Yasmeen imagined, she uncovers a contradictory world of igloos and pool halls, Sedna and Jesus, raw caribou and alcohol. In the middle of everything is Joanasi, a beautiful but volatile man who leads her into territory that is almost as unsettling as the land itself.
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Release dateNov 1, 2017
ISBN9781771861250
Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik
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Carolyn Marie Souaid

Carolyn Marie Souaid has been writing and publishing poetry for over 20 years. The author of six books and the winner of the David McKeen Award for her first collection, Swimming into the Light, she has also been shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Prize and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Much of her work deals with the bridging of worlds; the difficulty, perhaps the impossibility of it, but the necessity of the struggle. She has toured her work across Canada and in France. Since the 1990s, she has been a key figure on the Montreal literary scene, having co-produced two major local events, Poetry in Motion (the poetry-on-the-buses project) and the Circus of Words / Cirque des mots, a multidisciplinary, multilingual cabaret focusing on the "theatre" of poetry. Souaid is a founding member and editor of Poetry Quebec, an online magazine focusing on the English language poets and poetry of Quebec.

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    This is a story of an Syrian-born Montrealer -- 23-year-old Yasmeen Haddad -- who moves to Nunavik (Northern Quebec) to teach Inuit children. Once there, she becomes immersed in life in a remote community, and falls in love with an Inuit man -- Joanasi Maqaittik -- who works at the local radio station. The author has brought us a tale of passion, obsession and pushing the limits of our own boundaries to make a relationship work. And, she has successfully integrated this with the story of the isolation, alcoholism, racism and the threat of loss of culture faced by many Aboriginal/Inuit communities. The story is often violent and the characters are complex -- she captures the psyche of Yasmeen especially well, I thought. This story kept me engaged days after I'd finished reading.

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