• Title: Klee Wyck
• Author: Emily Carr
• Genre/Subject: Canadian autobiography
• Publisher: Irwin
• Publication Date: 1941
• Start date: 2/14/2022
• Finish date: 2/15/2022

Review:

Vivid, spare, imaginative prose.

Says in one phrase what some would take three lines to say. Proust would take 10 pages.

I had a pretty low opinion of natives before, but I like them even less after reading this. The myth of the noble savage is just that, a myth. Savages need to be civilized, that’s how the world moves forward.

A short, fast, densely packed series of anecdotes from a part of Canada that still remains largely untouched and mysterious.