In Angel Wing Splash Pattern Richard Van Camp celebrates life in northern Canada where the stories are playful, moving, and starkly honest in their portrayal of contemporary Indigenous life. There is pain in these stories and there is loss. There is death, but there is also rebirth, and there is always the search from each of the narrators for personal truth.
General Note: LSC 20.00"With a new introduction and afterword by the author and two illustrated stories."Short stories.
Formatted Contents Note: Mermaids -- Let's beat the shit out of Herman Rosko! -- Why ravens smile to little old ladies as they walk by -- The uranium leaking from Port Radium and Rayrock mines is killing us -- The night Charles Bukowski died -- Sky burial -- Snow white nothing for miles -- My fifth step -- How I saved Christmas -- Mermaids, illustrated -- Hickey gone wrong, illustrated.