Red Deerians have cast their votes and chosen the novel Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr as the 2025 Red Deer Reads winner.

It's Red Deer Public Library's seventh city-wide book initiative since 2015 to bring residents together through a shared reading experience, and connect through conversations about a book, its author, and the book's themes and ideas.

Prairie Edge, which follows the efforts of two distant Métis cousins to set a herd of bison free in downtown Edmonton, is described as a "gripping, darkly funny caper and a raw reckoning with the wounds that persist across generations."

The crime thriller "doubles as a sharp critique of modern activism and challenges readers to consider what 'Land Back' might really look like."

Prairie Edge was shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize, a

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