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By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Métis author Tara Gereaux dedicates her new novel Wild People Quiet to her late grandfather. It’s a fitting dedication as main character Florence Banks mirrors the actions of grandfather Clarence: They both hid their Métis identity. “I really wanted to write this book to understand the circumstances that my grandfather was living in when he was a young man,” said Gereaux. “I don’t know exactly when he might have made that decision to live as a white man, but I imagine it was probably when he was just a young man starting out on his own.” In 1946, the setting for Wild People Quiet, Gereaux’s grandfather would have been around 20 years of age. “I really wanted to explore that time periodhttps://theturtleislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/facebooklogo.jpg725483