By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com M\u00e9tis 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 M\u00e9tis identity. \u201cI really wanted to write this book to understand the circumstances that my grandfather was living in when he was a young man,\u201d said Gereaux. \u201cI 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.\u201d In 1946, the setting for Wild People Quiet, Gereaux\u2019s grandfather would have been around 20 years of age. \u201cI really wanted to explore that time period… <\/p>\n
By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com M\u00e9tis 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 M\u00e9tis identity. \u201cI really wanted to write this book to understand the circumstances that my grandfather was living in when he was a young man,\u201d said Gereaux. \u201cI 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.\u201d In 1946, the setting for Wild People Quiet, Gereaux\u2019s grandfather would have been around 20 years of age. \u201cI really wanted to explore that time period... <\/p>\n