Audiobooks by Michelle Porter

A Glacier's Guide to Dying: A Novel

"Robbie has spent most of life wondering about his real father, Mike, who long since left their family due to his struggles with visions and mistrust of the modern world. Robbie can't forget how much he felt connected to him from his few visits, and not just because they share two differently colored eyes. But now, as he rescues his mother from encroaching wildfires, he's determined to also find his father. Robbie takes off to find answers, and when his uncle confesses that he last dropped Mike off at a glacier, he and his uncle head climb up the mountain of ice to see if Mike might still be there, and whether he's still alive. On the slopes of a huge glacier, Robbie, starts hearing the ancient voice of the glacier itself giving him guidance. Has he accessed a deep connection to the land, or is he succumbing to the same illness that had wreaked havoc on his father's life? Michelle Porter brings her profoundly moving sensibility and disarmingly funny voice to a powerful contemporary story of identity and belonging, loss and healing, within families and with the immortal land itself."

Michelle Porter (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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A Grandmother Begins the Story

"Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them. Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means. Allie, Carter's mother, is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her join her ancestors in the Afterlife. And Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons before the fire inside burns her up, with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without. Meanwhile, Mamé, in the Afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to cut herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward. This extraordinary novel, told by a chorus of vividly realized, funny, wise, confused, struggling characters-including descendants of the bison that once freely roamed the land-heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction. Audiobook is Read by a Full cast:  - Mamé - Tantoo Cardinal (she/her) - Geneviève - Jani Lauzon (she/her) - Velma - Tara Sky (she/they) - Lucie - Monique Mojica (she/her) - Allie - Lisa Cromarty (she/her) - Carter - Jenny Pudavick (she/her) - Bio Sister - Kiawentiio (she/her) - Solin - Michelle Porter (she/her) - Dee - Alison Deon (she/her) - Tell - Jacob MacInnis (they/them) - Grasslands - Elle-Màijà Tailfeathers (she/her) - Perkins - Bernard Starlight (he/him) - Lottery - Dakota Ray Hebert (she/her) - Bets (the Volvo) - Yolanda Bonnell (they/she) - Slavko - Wesley French (he/him) - Pam - Brefny Caribou (she/her)"

Michelle Porter (Author), Alison Deon, Bernard Starlight, Brefny Caribou, Dakota Ray Hebert, Elle-Màijà Tailfeathers, Jacob Macinnis, Jani Lauzon, Jenny Pudavick, Kiawentiio, Lisa Cromarty, Michelle Porter, Monique Mojica, Tantoo Cardinal, Tara Sky, Wesley French, Yolanda Bonnell (Narrator)

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Scratching River

"Scratching River braids the voices of mother, brother, sister, ancestor, and river to create a story about environmental, personal, and collective healing. This memoir revolves around a search for home for the author's older brother, who is both autistic and schizophrenic, and an unexpected emotional journey that led to acceptance, understanding and, ultimately, reconciliation. Michelle Porter brings together the oral history of a Métis ancestor, studies of river morphology, and news clippings about abuse her older brother endured at a rural Alberta group home to tell a tale about love, survival, and hope. This book is a voice in your ear, urging you to explore your own braided histories and relationships."

Michelle Porter (Author), Michelle Porter (Narrator)

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Approaching Fire

"In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor. Weaving through multiple genres and traditions, Approaching Fire fashions a textual documentary of rescue and insight, and a glowing contemplation of the ways in which loss can generate unbridled renewal."

Michelle Porter (Author), Michelle Porter (Narrator)

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