Fake Jesus and Free Buffalo

Despair and desperation. A history denied and misrepresented. A colonial legacy that still stains the lives and landscape. These describe the setting of Conor Kerr’s new novel Prairie Edge. Set in the Edmonton, Alberta area of Canada, its two primary protagonists are indigenous Metís young people angry and frustrated with a world that gives them little to no credit and even less hope. Cousins somewhat separated, they find themselves living in a single-wide trailer when the book begins. The young man in the story...