Charlotte Gill is the author of Ladykiller and Eating Dirt. Her next book, Almost Brown, about growing up mixed-race, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House Canada.
Giganto is known by various names: almasty, migyhur, meh-teh, dzu-teh. Around here, the common term is a bastardization of a word from a Coast Salish language, Sásq’ets, or “wild man”
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