The Obituary Picture Book It has been embraced by

It has been embraced by people across North America—prison inmates

While the men of the colony are off in the city

After the sudden death of a beloved patriarch who promised eternal life to his followers

and they wake up in apartments of completely different sizes and shapes

a dapper businessman who lives across the valley

The Obituary Picture Book It has been embraced byby Gail Scott In order to traverse a city where identity is tagged by accent, Rosine, Gail Scott's part Indigenous protagonist, performs an ever shifting amalgam, ventriloquizing often suspect voices, both contemporaneous and ancestral. Her inability to claim a legacy becomes a trajectory of disjunctions where place, language, and race are lived through in the most detailed ways, fostering schisms that challenge what narrative has come to mean under