Childforever

Beverly Rasporich is an associate professor in the Faculty of General
Studies at the University of Calgary and the author of Dance of the
Sexes: Art and Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro.

As a mature man, Will Sawnet discovers that he was adopted. Thus begins
his troubled search for his Native mother, and his own identity.

Ian McCulloch experiments with intertextuality, juxtaposing a largely
realistic narrative with episodes (in italics) of Coyote myth. His
carefully crafted prose contains some remarkable moments of image-making
and poetry. This otherwise enjoyable novel is marred by stilted dialogue
and a tendency toward melodrama. The author is of mixed Cree and
Scottish ancestry.