Beothuk, How Story Made a People (Almost) Disappear Drama From Booker Prize Finalist and

From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of “pitch perfect” (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These

After the mill was complete

a malevolent spirit and two plucky heroines

Kyo Maclear's witty story

FINALIST FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

Beothuk, How Story Made a People (Almost) Disappear Drama From Booker Prize Finalist andThe well known story of the Beothuk is that they were an isolated people who, through conflict with Newfoundland settlers and Mikmaq, were made extinct in 1829. Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk and the reasons for their supposed extinction soon became entrenched in historical accounts and the popular imagination. Beothuk explores how the history of a people has been misrepresented by the stories of outsiders writing to serve their own