The Outside Circle - A Graphic Novel

A graphic novel about two brothers surrounded by poverty and gang violence trying to overcome centuries of historic trauma.

About the author

PATTI LABOUCANE-BENSON is a Métis woman and the Director of Research, Training, and Communication at Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA). She has a Ph.D. in Human Ecology, focusing on Aboriginal Family Resilience. Her doctoral research explored how providing historic trauma healing programs for Aboriginal offenders builds resilience in Aboriginal families and communities. She has also been the recipient of the Aboriginal Role Model of Alberta Award for Education. She lives in Spruce Grove, Alberta.

Summary

A graphic novel about two brothers surrounded by poverty and gang violence trying to overcome centuries of historic trauma.

Additional text

"A beautifully and powerfully told story." -School Library Journal

Product details

• Authors: Patti Laboucane-Benson
• Assisted by: Kelly Mellings (Illustration)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9781770899377
• ISBN: 978-1-77089-937-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 177 mm x 254 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 382 g
• Illustrations: Color illustrations throughout
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; FICTION / Native American & Aboriginal, Jesse Thistle From the Ashes, Son of a Trickster Eden Robinson