In At Ends We Rest, Samantha Erron Gibbon offers four powerful short stories about Indigenous youth searching for home, safety, and belonging amid intergenerational impacts of residential school, colonization, displacement, and family fracture. Samantha draws from her own life as an intergenerational residential school survivor, as well as from her years working with urban Indigenous youth in Edmonton. Through fictional stories rooted in lived experience and community memory, she gives voice to young people navigating loss, food insecurity, kinship adoption, violence, leadership, cultural art, and the longing for rest. Gibbon knows what she wants the future to look like, but these stories remind us, we have yet to catch a glimpse of the end.

This collection is great for young adulty and adult readers.