The Morning Bell Brings The Broken Hearted

The Morning Bell Brings the Broken Hearted

Exploring the intricacies of power, culture and emotion when a non-Indigenous person moves to an Indigenous community as an educator, Jennifer Manuel casts a spell as captivating and perceptive as in her bestselling novel The Heaviness of Things That Float. When new teacher Molleigh Royston moves to Tawakin—a remote Nuu-chah-nulth community in the Pacific Northwest—she arrives with good intentions. However, as she struggles to understand and help her students, doubts begin to accumulate—including doubts about her own motivations. Things escalate when three students start behaving strangely and Molleigh makes a serious cultural transgression, triggering a series of disturbing events in the village. Giant boulders are placed in front of Molleigh’s house, furniture moves mysteriously and flowers erupt in flame. The Morning Bell Brings the Broken Hearted is a captivating story about the complexity of hope and the limits of good intent, offering a grave look at how the education system fails remote Indigenous communities, leaving Indigenous students, with all their brilliance and resilience, in the hands of transient educators.

What the Living Do

A woman confronts her past and a cancer diagnosis in a lyrical journey of healing. Thirty-seven-year-old Brett Catlin's life is consumed by sex and death: Cole, her younger lover, takes care of the former, while her job disposing of roadkill addresses the latter. A cancer diagnosis forces her to question her worth, suspecting the illness is payback for past traumas. As Brett navigates alternative healing paths, a startling discovery propels her toward a deeper exploration of cause and effect. Encounters with animals, both living and dead, guide her to answer a profound question: who is worth saving? What the Living Do is a moving portrait of a woman grappling with her demons to find hope, healing, and redemption. For readers of literary fiction, women's fiction, and stories of psychological transformation.

The Two Worlds