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Murphy tells the story of the grove that

he is stopped in his tracks

But when one of Cash's classmates vanishes without a trace

like the rest of his family

Come along for the ride to Kamloopa

mother Haida Murphy tells the story ofA stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity. mother is a work rooted in an intimate fracture: an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth family's history together through the stories told to her by her mother, father, sister, and brother, all of whom remained on the