Life in the City of Dirty Water A Memoir of Healing

Clayton Thomas-Muller

eAudio - 2021

*FINALIST FOR 2022 CANADA READS**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* NATIONAL BESTSELLER A gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang life to take up the warrior’s fight against the assault on Indigenous peoples’ lands—and eventually the warrior’s spirituality.There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada's residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against raci...sm and violence, at school and on the streets of Winnipeg and small-town British Columbia; the tough teenager who, at 17,... more