A Minor Chorus

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A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. An absolutely dazzling confluence of big ideas and raw emotions, told in Billy-Ray Belcourt’s singular poetic voice. is about loving, questioning, and fighting for your life, and it’s as compelling a debut novel as I’ve read in years. No one breaks your heart as elegantly as Billy-Ray Belcourt. Innovative, intimate, and meticulous. is a rare gem of a book. We will be reading and rereading for decades to come. A truly exceptional novel about how the disregarded sometimes live the most remarkable lives. is like a song that’s over too soon; I want to play it on repeat, to memorize the words so that I can sing them to myself. An achingly gorgeous debut novel of Indigenous survival…This is a breathtaking and hypnotic achievement. Following his essay collection, , poet Belcourt, from the Driftpile Cree Nation, continues his exploration of Indigenous trauma and queerness in this erudite debut novel…Smart, thoughtful. With his first novel, wunderkind Belcourt cements what has become increasingly clear across two poetry collections and a memoiristic book of essays: he is a fearless writer… [ is] a ruminative constellation of ideas regarding colonial trauma, heteropatriarchy, and the innate sociality of writing; Belcourt’s boldest, freest, and most linguistically assured work yet. US

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