Tasha Spillett’s graphic novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, colonialism, and the anguish of a missing loved one.
New York Times–bestselling author Tasha Spillett, PhD,
(she/her/hers) draws her strength from both her Inninew and
Trinidadian bloodlines. She is a celebrated Afro-Indigenous
educator, poet, and emerging scholar. Tasha is most heart-tied to
contributing to community-led work that centres on land and water
defence, and the protection of Indigenous women and girls. Her
books include the award-winning graphic novel series Surviving the
City and the celebrated children’s book, I Sang You Down from the
Stars. @TashaSpillett
Natasha Donovan (she/her/hers) is a Métis illustrator originally
from Vancouver, British Columbia. Her sequential work has been
published in This Place: 150 Years Retold, Wonderful Women of
History, and Thomas King's graphic novel Borders. She is the
illustrator of the award-winning Surviving the City graphic
novel series and Mothers of Xsan children's book series, as well
as Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee
Aerospace Engineer. She currently lives by the Nooksack River in
Washington State. @natashamdonovan
Since 1998, Donovan Yaciuk (he/him/his) has coloured books
published by Marvel, DC, Dark Horse comics, and HighWater Press
including the A Girl Called Echo and The Reckoner Rises
series, as well as select stories in This Place: 150 Years
Retold. Donovan holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the
University of Manitoba and began his career as a part of the
legendary, now-defunct Digital Chameleon colouring studio. He lives
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with his wife and two daughters.
[A] haunting graphic novel... debut author Spillett and
Donovan... present a story of girls growing up with the
historical legacy of Canada’s treatment of Indigenous people,
particularly women and girls.
*Publishers Weekly*
Engrossing... [this story] remains a tribute to the
missing and murdered and a clarion call to everyone else.
*Kirkus Reviews*
Centering the strong hearts of Indigenous women and girls and
shattering racist
assumptions, Surviving the City is a beautiful,
uncompromising honour song to those of us that not
only survive the urban, but navigate through it with the
courage of our Ancestors.
*Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of This Accident of Being
Lost*
Selected for 2020 Rise: A Feminist Book Project List, an annual
booklist of the best feminist books for young readers
*American Library Association (ALA)*
Selected as an AIYLA Young Adult Honor Book
*American Indian Youth Literature Award (AIYLA)*
Nominated for the Forest of Reading's Red Maple Award
*Ontario Library Association*
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