![]() Joe was a world champion dogsled racer and a celebrated caribou hunter. Highway was the 11th of 12 children to come out of the remarkable marriage of Joe and Balazee Highway. The most exciting Canadian books coming out in fall 2021.He arrived in December 1951, ahead of schedule, forcing his parents to stop their dogsled, pitch a tent in a snowbank in northern Manitoba and send their 12-year-old daughter out to fetch a midwife in the night.Ĭanadians know Highway as a world-renowned composer, pianist, playwright and author of the novel Kiss of the Fur Queen. He chronicles the first 15 years of his life in the memoir Permanent Astonishment, which is a finalist for the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. When Tomson Highway says he was born in a snowbank, he means it literally. ![]()
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