My Soul is Still Looking for a Home: The Story of a Canadian Indian
E-book, Czech
My Soul is Still Looking for a Home: The Story of a Canadian Indian
If I can last another minute, I might be able to survive, I might be able to be something more than just a desperate junkie.
Abandoned by both parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle and his two brothers find themselves briefly in foster care, cut off from everything they've ever known. The three children eventually end up with their paternal grandparents, whose loving but tough upbringing soon sparks the first conflicts. Moreover, the spirit of Jesse's drug-addicted father relentlessly and tormentingly pervades the entire house and the memories of all family members. In an attempt to come to terms with his past, Jesse descends into a self-destructive cycle of drug and alcohol addiction and petty crime, which leads him to spend more than a decade on and off the streets. It is only then that he realises he will die if he does not start living differently.
In his touchingly human, heart-wrenching memoir, Thistle candidly and fearlessly confides in his troubled past, writing about the hardships he has experienced and how he learned the truth about his parents. Through his perseverance and desire for education—as well as a newfound love—he found his way back to the circle of his indigenous family and culture.
But the book is not only an eloquent account of the consequences of prejudice and racism—its main message is the realisation that love and support can lead us to happiness despite the circumstances.
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