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<p><strong>***IPPY AWARDS: BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION: CANADA-WEST – SILVER***</strong></p>
<p><strong>***INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARDS 2021, PUBLISHED PROSE IN ENGLISH: CREATIVE NON-FICTION AND LIFE-WRITING: FINALIST***</strong></p>
<p><strong>***FIRST NATION COMMUNITIES READ AWARDS 2021/22: LONGLIST***</strong></p>
<p><strong>***NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS, REGIONAL (NON-FICTION): FINALIST***</strong></p>
<p><strong>***THE <em>MIRAMICHI READER</em>’S 2020 MOST PROMISING AUTHOR AWARD***</strong></p>
<p><strong>***BMO WINTERSET AWARD 2020 LONGLIST***</strong></p>
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<p>In <em>Approaching Fire</em>, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor. <br>
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<p>Weaving through multiple genres and traditions, <em>Approaching Fire </em>fashions a textual documentary of rescue and insight, and a glowing contemplation of the ways in which loss can generate unbridled renewal.</p>