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Thunder Through My Veins

A Memoir

A Memoir

By Gregory Scofield

By Gregory Scofield

By Gregory Scofield

By Gregory Scofield

By Gregory Scofield
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By Gregory Scofield
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    About Thunder Through My Veins

    Gregory Scofield’s Thunder Through My Veins is the heartbreakingly beautiful memoir of one man’s journey toward self-discovery, acceptance, and the healing power of art.

    Few people can justify a memoir at the age of thirty-three. Gregory Scofield is the exception, a young man who has inhabited several lives in the time most of us can manage only one. Born into a Métis family of Cree, Scottish, English and French descent but never told of his heritage, Gregory knew he was different. His father disappeared after he was born, and at five he was separated from his mother and sent to live with strangers and extended family. There began a childhood marked by constant loss, poverty, violence and self-hatred. Only his love for his sensitive but battered mother and his Aunty Georgina, a neighbor who befriended him, kept him alive.
         It wasn’t until he set out to search for his roots and began to chronicle his life in evocative, award-winning poetry, that he found himself released from the burdens of the past and able to draw upon the wisdom of those who went before him. Thunder Through My Veins is Gregory’s traumatic, tender and hopeful story of his fight to rediscover and accept himself in the face of a heritage with diametrically opposed backgrounds.

    About Thunder Through My Veins

    Gregory Scofield’s Thunder Through My Veins is the heartbreakingly beautiful memoir of one man’s journey toward self-discovery, acceptance, and the healing power of art.

    Few people can justify a memoir at the age of thirty-three. Gregory Scofield is the exception, a young man who has inhabited several lives in the time most of us can manage only one. Born into a Métis family of Cree, Scottish, English and French descent but never told of his heritage, Gregory knew he was different. His father disappeared after he was born, and at five he was separated from his mother and sent to live with strangers and extended family. There began a childhood marked by constant loss, poverty, violence and self-hatred. Only his love for his sensitive but battered mother and his Aunty Georgina, a neighbor who befriended him, kept him alive.
         It wasn’t until he set out to search for his roots and began to chronicle his life in evocative, award-winning poetry, that he found himself released from the burdens of the past and able to draw upon the wisdom of those who went before him. Thunder Through My Veins is Gregory’s traumatic, tender and hopeful story of his fight to rediscover and accept himself in the face of a heritage with diametrically opposed backgrounds.

    About Thunder Through My Veins

    Gregory Scofield’s Thunder Through My Veins is the heartbreakingly beautiful memoir of one man’s journey toward self-discovery, acceptance, and the healing power of art.

    Few people can justify a memoir at the age of thirty-three. Gregory Scofield is the exception, a young man who has inhabited several lives in the time most of us can manage only one. Born into a Métis family of Cree, Scottish, English and French descent but never told of his heritage, Gregory knew he was different. His father disappeared after he was born, and at five he was separated from his mother and sent to live with strangers and extended family. There began a childhood marked by constant loss, poverty, violence and self-hatred. Only his love for his sensitive but battered mother and his Aunty Georgina, a neighbor who befriended him, kept him alive.
         It wasn’t until he set out to search for his roots and began to chronicle his life in evocative, award-winning poetry, that he found himself released from the burdens of the past and able to draw upon the wisdom of those who went before him. Thunder Through My Veins is Gregory’s traumatic, tender and hopeful story of his fight to rediscover and accept himself in the face of a heritage with diametrically opposed backgrounds.

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    About Gregory Scofield

    GREGORY SCOFIELD is a Red River Métis of Cree, Scottish and European descent whose ancestry can be traced to the fur trade and Métis community of Kinosota, Manitoba. He has taught creative writing and First Nations and Métis literature at… More about Gregory Scofield

    About Gregory Scofield

    GREGORY SCOFIELD is a Red River Métis of Cree, Scottish and European descent whose ancestry can be traced to the fur trade and Métis community of Kinosota, Manitoba. He has taught creative writing and First Nations and Métis literature at… More about Gregory Scofield

    About Gregory Scofield

    GREGORY SCOFIELD is a Red River Métis of Cree, Scottish and European descent whose ancestry can be traced to the fur trade and Métis community of Kinosota, Manitoba. He has taught creative writing and First Nations and Métis literature at… More about Gregory Scofield

    Product Details

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by Anchor Canada
    Sep 10, 2019 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385692748

    Category: Biography & Memoir

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Anchor Canada
    Sep 10, 2019 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780385692755

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    Sep 10, 2019 | 442 Minutes | ISBN 9780385694919

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    Praise

    “Gregory Scofield is the literary uncle to all of Indigenous Lit. . . . The return of Thunder Through My Veins marks an important shift in thinking about the cyclical nature of how our stories weave through time.” —Joshua Whitehead, author of Jonny Appleseed

    “It’s impossible to read Thunder Through My Veins and not be moved by Gregory Scofield’s story and transported by his powerful and widely-admired prose. . . .  Gregory Scofield can write. He tells his story with a simple yet engaging honesty that doesn’t ask for sympathy or even understanding. And—yet—somehow the reader can’t help but offer both. Like the tree that grew in Brooklyn, Scofield has grown against impossible odds to offer hope to any that might be following.” —January Magazine

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