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"Tasha Spillet's graphic-novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, resilience, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan's Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape - they're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can't bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces. Will Dez's community find her before it's too late? Will Miikwan be able to cope if they don't? Colonialism and the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People are explored in Natasha Donovan's beautiful illustrations."--… (more)
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The writing has some shortcomings, leaving things like berry fasts and smudging unexplained for ignorant readers like myself, ending in an abrupt and muddled manner, and having an afterword that
What I did find effective was the presence of the spirits of female ancestors providing unseen support to the teenage girls at the center fo the story and the personification of the male gaze and sexual harassment as tall grey aliens looming behind the men who watch and approach the girls.
And in the end, it did cause me to google a bunch of stuff tonight, so my curiosity has been piqued and my awareness has been raised some.
I'd heard about the Highway of Tears but the problem is even more prevalent than that. Similar to U.S. news outlets not making a fuss when the missing girls are black, the disappearances of