Keeper'n Me

Garnet Raven is still a toddler when he is removed from his Ojibway community and handed into the care of one foster family after another. By his mid-teens he has grown tired of being moved around, and when a chance to slip away appears, he takes it. The freedom he gains quickly becomes a hard lesson, as he finds himself alone in a large city with few resources and no one to turn to.

Richard Wagamese, an Anishinaabe writer from northwestern Ontario, draws on his own experience of the child welfare system to explore Garnet's struggle to find where he belongs. The novel follows his search for identity and his connection to the Indigenous heritage he was separated from as a child.