pstrongImbued with passion, creativity and insight, Brandon Reid's debut novel is a wonderfully creative coming-of-age story exploring indigeneity, masculinity and cultural tradition.strongp pTwelve-year-old Derik Mormin travels with his father and a family friend to Bella Bella for his grandfather's funeral. Along the way, he uncovers the traumatic history of his ancestors, considers his relationship to masculinity and explores the contrast between rural and urban lifestyles in hopes of reconciling the seemingly unreconcilable, the beauty of each the Indigenous and Western way of life--hence embeautiful beautifulem.p pHe travails a storm, meets long-lost relatives, discovers his ancestral homeland he suffers through catching fish, gains and loses companions, learns to heal trauma. In emBeautiful Beautifulem we delve into the mind of a gifted boy who struggles to find his role and persona through elusive circumstance, and--p pAll right, that's quite enough third-person pandering you're