A Glacier's Guide to Dying

“As layered as the ice of a glacier, this is a story that will have you coming back again and again to truly understand its depth and brilliance. Remarkable storytelling!”—Amanda Peters, author of The Berry Pickers

“Michelle Porter wonderfully weaves together Métis epistemologies, SMS and digital narration, as well as beautiful lamentations of glacial animacy. And her protagonist, Robbie, is wickedly contemporary: deeply introverted, philosophical, and feral to the settler masculinities prescribed to him. He holds within him a tornado, the Albertan wildfires, mountainous giants, fatherly longing, and the Athabascan glacier, Omega. This is not simply magic realism, anthropomorphism, a bildungsroman, or Métis oral storytelling. It is each of those and more. Sovereign to its storytelling histories. For fans of Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God or Eden Robinson’s Trickster trilogy—A Glacier’s Guide to Dying is a must read.”—Joshua Whitehead, author of Johnny Appleseed

“Michelle Porter is a gem of a writer. Giving voice to our natural kin, A Glacier's Guide to Dying is a poignant novel, light in its delivery but full of weight in its afterglow. I loved this one.”