Doubleday Canada, 1994, reprint.  ISBN 0-385-25452-0.  Trade soft cover, 214 pages.  Unread remaindered copy with very light edge and cover wear.  Winner of the 1995 Best Novel Award, Writers’ Guild of Alberta.  ‘When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway reservation and placed in a series of foster homes.  Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city.  At age 20, lonely, disillusioned – and in jail – Garnet suddenly receives a surprise letter from his long-lost native family.  The sudden communication spurs an emotional homecoming.  Released from jail, Garnet decides to stay on the reservation and in so doing discovers – for the first time – a sense of place and of self, through Keeper, a friend of his grandfather.’ (from rear wrap)