Description
Samantha Erron Gibbon is an otipemisiwak (Métis) iskwew from Edmonton, Alberta. Her writing, illustrating, and dancing have taken her across her prairie homelands, but she remains firmly rooted in the city that holds her partner and children, her extended family, her career as a physician, and her beloved urban Indigenous experience. Samantha takes pride in advocating for youth and women across her creative, medical, and educational paths, and she hopes that as her community grows, they continue to find the agency to flourish through science and the humanities alike.
In At Ends We Rest, Samantha Erron Gibbon offers five powerful short stories about Indigenous youth searching for home, safety, and belonging amid intergenerational impacts of residential school, colonization, displacement, and family fracture. An otipemisiwak (Métis) ekwa nehiyaw physician, mother, and educator, Gibbon draws from her own life as an intergenerational residential school survivor, as well as from her years working with urban Indigenous youth in Edmonton. Through fictional stories rooted in lived experience and community memory, she gives voice to young people navigating loss, food insecurity, kinship adoption, orphanhood, violence, leadership, cultural art, and the longing for rest. At Ends We Rest is a haunting and compassionate collection about survival, inheritance, and the unfinished work of healing. Gibbon knows what she wants the future to look like, but as these stories remind us, we have yet to catch a glimpse of the end. This book contains 4 b&w illustrations, 7 colour illustrations.