Overview

After plans to live in Africa shatter, young journalist Laurie Sarkadi moves to the Subarctic city of Yellowknife seeking wilderness and adventure. She covers the changing socio-political worlds of Dene and Inuit in the late 80scatching glimpses of their traditional, animal-dependent waysbefore settling into her own off-grid existence in the boreal forest. There, she experiences motherhood and its remarkable synchronicities with the lives of caribou, dragonflies and other creatures. As a mother, and as a journalist, Sarkadi speaks up for abused women and children, creating controversies that entangle her in long, legal battles. When she looks to animals and the natural world for solace, she encounters magic. Lessons from the natural world arrive weekly, if not daily: black bears roam her dreams, as well as her deck, teaching introspection; wolves inspire her to persevere. This evocative memoir explores a more than two-decade long physical and spiritual journey into the wild spaces of northern Canada, around the globe and deep within.

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.. . Voice in the Wild is a robust commentary on what it means to eke out an existence on the margins of civilization... --Up Here Magazine .. .there is much to contemplate in Sarkadi's beautifully rendered chronicle of career, motherhood and marriage. --Edmonton Journal It's like Eat, Pray, Love but for wild people. Voice in the Wild ends up being about family, social justice, child protection, the environment, music, love... and all with a deep, evolving, spiritual, authentic connection to the land and animals. --CBC North Radio

.. .there is much to contemplate in Sarkadi's beautifully rendered chronicle of career, motherhood and marriage. --Edmonton Journal .. . Voice in the Wild is a robust commentary on what it means to eke out an existence on the margins of civilization... --Up Here Magazine It's like Eat, Pray, Love but for wild people. Voice in the Wild ends up being about family, social justice, child protection, the environment, music, love... and all with a deep, evolving, spiritual, authentic connection to the land and animals. --CBC North Radio

Author Information

Laurie Sarkadi is an award-winning writer, producer and editor of EDGE YK magazine. She moved to Yellowknife as the Edmonton Journals northern bureau chief, then spent sixteen years telling northerners stories through CBC radio and television. Her non-fiction has appeared in Canadian Geographic, The Globe and Mail, thewalrus.ca and the anthologies Dropped Threads 3 and Kitchen Talk. She lives off-grid in the Northwest Territories with her husband and has three sons.

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