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The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves

by Scott Mainprize

Fiction     Paperback

The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves chronicles the fictionalization of the year the author spent teaching in Aupaluk (a remote Inuit community on the Ungava Coast of Nunavik). The second outlines, and explores, the history of oppression experienced by the more than five hundred Indigenous nations across northern Turtle Island at the hands of the Canadian government since the Royal Proclamation.

Told through the voice of Nomad, who finds himself very much at odds with the land itself. Nomad slowly learns how to reconnect with his fractured history as he embraces and is embraced by the Elders and his own students. Told is crisp, spare prose, this debut novel brings forward a powerful new indigenous voice to the literary landscape.

This book was made with the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Canada Council for the Arts Manitoba Arts Council
  • Published: November 21st, 2023

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