The Obituary Picture Book After the sudden death of

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

While the men of the colony are off in the city

and doormen

Matt Kracht

victim and transgressor

The Obituary Picture Book After the sudden death ofby 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