White Coal City: A Memoir of Place and Family.

This article focuses on Robert Boschman's memoir *White Coal City: A Memoir of Place and Family*, which explores intergenerational trauma within the context of the author's family history and the city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Central to the narrative is the sudden death of Boschman's paternal grandmother in 1940 and its lasting impact across generations, alongside broader traumas such as poverty and the effects of the "Sixties Scoop," a government policy that forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families. The memoir also addresses themes of racialization and cultural loss while highlighting the author's family efforts to support Indigenous heritage through adoption. Despite its focus on trauma, the book reflects on memory's role in connecting past and present and offers moments of hope rooted in community and personal growth.