Get Hold Of Stones And Switches Assembled By Lorne Simon Accessible As Document

the most intriguing book I've read this year, The backstory IRL is fascinating enough, The final proofs of this book were in the mail to Simon when he was killed in a car accident, His family thankfully chose to continue with publication,

The result is, or should be regarded as, a classic of Canadian literature, But hardly anyone knows it exists, It was probably the first published novel written by a Mi'kmaq from Elsipogtog, and it's a gem, unique in its style and fully engrossing, then enlightening.
On the surface, it's a story of a fisherman in a slump at the worst possible time, when his girlfriend is pregnant and wants to get married.
Woven into the story are a number of old mystical Mi'kmaw tales, The character considers and struggles with the idea that his slump may not be merely bad luck, that someone is using dark magic against him.
This goes against his rationalist worldview, In these old stories, his pondering, his discussions with a priest, we see old and new ways colliding, clashing, influencing one another at every turn.


From the outside, our hero Megwadesk deals with intense, violent and powerfully symbolized racism the moment he gets a decent fish haul and has to sell it offreserve.
As the story bubbles to a perfect climax, all these prophetic

philosophical preponderances bubble with it,

Until recently I'd never heard of Lorne Simon, Now I know we lost a master back in, Wonderful/cute native folk story, Had ups,downs,and a bit of mystery, Stones and Switches takes the reader into the world of the Micmacs during the depression era a world where beautiful legends and terrible spiritual powers meet a world where a hardworking people struggle against poverty, racism and lethal epidemics a world where one sensitive, young man, caught by events, questions the idea of free will and is tempted to do something even something wrong in order to assert his will.
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