The Writers' Collective

TONIGHT! Please join David Alexander Robertson, Scott B. Henderson, HighWater Press (an imprint of P&M Press), and McNally Robinson Booksellers for a book launch of Scars, and the pre-publication launch of Ends/Begins. Scars and Ends/Begins are book 2 and book 3 in the four-part graphic novel series, 7 Generations.

David will begin speaking at 7:30 pm with a reception and book signing to follow.

Scars introduces White Cloud, a young Plains Cree boy, in the year 1870, when the last great smallpox epidemic swept through the prairies. After witnessing, one by one, the death of his family from the illness, he summons the strength to journey on to find a new home and deliver himself from the terrible disease. But will he make it? Scars follows White Cloud and the people he encounters, as he struggles to survive against impossible odds.

The book also reconnects readers to Edwin, a lost young man on his own quest who was introduced in book 1, Stone. By learning about the bravery and perseverance of his ancestor White Cloud, Edwin summons his own courage and travels to confront the main source of his despair: the father he barely knows.

Scars is the second book in the graphic novel series, 7 Generations. Books in the series:

Book 1: Stone (published) introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family’s past if he is to have any future.

Book 3: Ends/Begins (forthcoming) features the story of Edwin’s father and his residential-school experience.

Book 4: The Pact (forthcoming) is a story of redemption, as father and son reconcile their past and begin a new journey.