“Nominated for a Governor General’s Award as co-author of the bestselling memoir Up Ghost River, Alexandra Shimo’s investigative reporting shines much-needed light on the third-world poverty and despair in First Nations communities that few Canadians are aware of and even fewer have experienced. Gabor Maté M.D., Author, In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction Anyone who wants to know this country needs to see Kashechewan as depicted in Alexandra Shimo’s vivid and grippingaccount.” “Investigative journalism at its best, Invisible North documents the plight and resilience of a community of Canadians whose hardscrabble reality most of their fellow citizens cannot even imagine. The author went down the rabbit hole and showed us the many of the problems this thing called civilization can cause.”ĭrew Hayden Taylor, Commentator, playwright and author of Motorcycles and Sweetgrass There are horror stories documented in these pages, and some of resilience and courage. What Shimo sought out to experience in Kashachewan, and the stories she came back with, managed to shed some unexpected light on the darker side of Aboriginal existence, and its complicated relationship with the government of Canada.
“It’s very rare that a book will make you shake your head and drop your jaw. Hugh Fulton Byas scholarship, New Haven, Conn. Winner, 2015 CBC Bookie Award for Non-Fiction for Up Ghost Riverįinalist, The 2014 Governor General’s Award in non-fiction for Up Ghost River.įinalist, 2015 Trillium Award for English language for Up Ghost River. Winner, 2015 Ontario Historical Society Donald Grant Creighton Award for Up Ghost River Winner, 2015 Speakers Book Award for Up Ghost River.