At the core of this novel, Lee Maracle's last, is the question "Do the dead regret dying after they reach the after world?" Mink wonders this as he regrets dying. He does not want to leave earth with regrets, but he is so young when he dies again, after returning to earth with his ancestors' permission. This time, however, he has seen Tkaronto, the city where his father lived, and he has seen and experienced first-hand the deep forests and bubbling rivers in the physical world he missed out on in his previous life. Hometown: North Vancouver, B.C.
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