City of Asylum
40 W. North Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
United States
Free and open to the public. reservation required for free tickets via City of Asylum website.
City of Asylum is pleased to host author Darrel J. McLeod for a celebration of his debut memoir, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age, as part of their memoir reading series.
Please reserve your free tickets online; a maximum of 2 tickets can be reserved per guest. You can also reserve your own copy of Darrel’s memoir, Mamaskatch, to be picked up at the event.
More infromation: https://www.alphabetcity.org/events/memoir-series-darrel-mcleod/
Darrel J. McLeod
Darrel J. McLeod is the author of Peyakow and Mamaskatch, which received the Govenor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. He is Cree from treaty eight territory in Northern Alberta. Before deciding to pursue writing in his retirement, McLeod was a chief negotiator of land claims for the federal government and executive director of education and international affairs with the Assembly of First Nations. He holds degrees in French literature and education from the University of British Columbia. He lives in Sooke, British Columbia.
Thrillingly written in a series of fractured vignettes, and unflinchingly honest, Mamaskatch is a heartbreaking account of how traumas are passed down from one generation to the next.