Northern Light av Kazim Ali

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<p><b>An <i>Outside Magazine</i> Favorite Book of 2021<br>A Book Riot Best Book of 2021<br></b><b>A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2021</b></p><b><p><b><br></b></p>“Places do not belong to us. We belong to them.”</b><br><br>

The child of South Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate homes, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet, one day, the celebrated poet and essayist finds himself thinking of the boreal forests and lush waterways of Jenpeg, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist, he wonders? Is the dam still operational?<br><br>

When Ali goes searching, however, he finds not news of Jenpeg, but of the local Pimicikamak community. Facing environmental destruction and broken promises from