The book, The Long Exile, by Melanie McGrath, and the movie Nanook of the North, are the focus of Pageturners book club's November selections, exploring issues affecting North America's native Inuit nation during the last half of the 20th century. Pageturners is a student-led book discussion group of Schoolcraft College.

In 1952, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among the group was Josephie Flaherty, the unrecognized, half Inuit son of filmmaker Robert Flaherty, director of Nanook of the North. In a narrative rich with human drama, Melanie McGrath follows three generations of the Flaherty family-Robert, Josephie, and Josephie’s daughters-to bring this extraordinary tale of deception and harsh deprivation to life.

The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic will be discussed Monday, November 14, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. in the Bradner Library and Tuesday, November 15 at 10:15 a.m. in the VisTaTech Center. The movie, Nanook of the North,  will be shown and discussed Thursday, November 17 at 1 p.m. in the Forum Building. All of these sessions will be held on Schoolcraft College's main campus in Livonia, Haggerty Road between Six and Seven Mile Roads.

The Long Exile is available from the Schoolcraft College Bookstore at a significant discount. The book discussions, and movie screening and discussion are free and open to the public. For more information about Pageturners' future book selections and discussions, visit http://sites.google.com/site/scpageturners.

Schoolcraft College is a public, two-year college offering classes at the main campus in Livonia; at the Radcliff Center in Garden City; and online at www.schooclraft.edu.