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Original Title:	Monkey Beach
ISBN:	0618219056 (ISBN13: 9780618219056)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Sunburst Award Nominee for Canadian Novel (2001), Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2000), Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (2001)

Monkey Beach

Eden Robinson

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 5090 Users | 450 Reviews

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Title	:	Monkey Beach
Author	:	Eden Robinson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	April 9th 2002 by Mariner Books (first published January 25th 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada

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Five hundred miles north of Vancouver is Kitamaat, an Indian reservation in the homeland of the Haisla people. Growing up a tough, wild tomboy, swimming, fighting, and fishing in a remote village where the land slips into the green ocean on the edge of the world, Lisamarie has always been different.

Visited by ghosts and shapeshifters, tormented by premonitions, she can't escape the sense that something terrible is waiting for her. She recounts her enchanted yet scarred life as she journeys in her speedboat up the frigid waters of the Douglas Channel. She is searching for her brother, dead by drowning, and in her own way running as fast as she can toward danger. Circling her brother's tragic death are the remarkable characters that make up her family: Lisamarie's parents, struggling to join their Haisla heritage with Western ways; Uncle Mick, a Native rights activist and devoted Elvis fan; and the headstrong Ma-ma-oo (Haisla for "grandmother"), a guardian of tradition.

Haunting, funny, and vividly poignant, Monkey Beach gives full scope to Robinson's startling ability to make bedfellows of comedy and the dark underside of life. Informed as much by its lush living wilderness as by the humanity of its colorful characters, Monkey Beach is a profoundly moving story about childhood and the pain of growing older--a multilayered tale of family grief and redemption.

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This book was a surprise to me. Infusedwith haisla culture it deals with life issueswith stark realism while blending in themysticism of native blood. While on a boat tripto save her brother's life, Lisamarie's selfreflection paints a picture which gives aninsight to her troubles in struggling to accepther gift and also the loss of some of the mostcolorful people in her life. The unforgettablecharacters of uncle mick the rebel activist andgrand mother mamaoo Lisa's only realconnection to her

I am a bit sad to be finished this one. Eden Robinson is one of my favourite authors right now, I hope she writes many more novels! This is Eden Robinson's first novel and it is a bit choppy? A lot goes on and it jumps from present to past and back again. There are also some plain old educational sections for those of us lacking in info about the Haisla people, which are quite good, but stick out from the rest of the story. Still, I really enjoyed this book. I love the myths woven into the book

2.5-stars, if we could.there was much about this novel that was appealing, particularly the aspects of native culture, and the settings. lisa's relationship with ma-ma-oo was my favourite piece of the book, and the knowledge lisa gained from her grandmother was so interesting to me. robinson deals with some very difficult themes within native culture. given the current unacceptable and heartbreaking situation in canada concerning the murdered and missing indigenous women, this is a very timely

This one is really hard to pin down. There is a plot running through it, but I experienced it more as a series of vignettes, some really brief and some spanning longer, intense periods of time. The timeline kind of slips back and forth, and I can see how some other reviewers here may have found that frustrating or confusing, but somehow I never minded. It was written well enough that I trusted Robinson to take me where I needed to be to inhabit Lisa's (the narrator and main character) world, and

This was an assigned reading for my English class, but I honestly didnt expect to enjoy it at much as I did. Id even consider reading it again. And its my first book of 2019!

Books like this are exactly why I love Netgalley. I never would have found this book except for through that website. You have to wade through a whole lot of not so good books and then you find one..like this one..that just makes your heart sing.Monkey Beach-that magical place that b'gwus (Sasquatches) are. "Jimmy," Dad said. "Sasquatches are make believe, like fairies. They don't really exist."Or do they?This book follows Lisa Marie Michelle Hill on her journey through her memories after her

Intriguing but inconsistent. I couldn't get a grip on the main character (Lisamarie) or the stages/phases of her development; there was something off for me in terms of the timeline. Events - shocking, sudden deaths of important characters, for example - seem to happen "off-stage" with only their longer-term impacts discussed (again, intriguing, but the style left me disconnected from the narrative as a whole). A lot was mentioned in passing or so indirectly that it lost its impact (e.g., Mick