Who wrote the coming-of-age novel, set in the Canadian Prairies, that has a strong affiliation with the genre that expresses a primarily realistic view of the real world while also adding or revealing magical elements?
Truth and Bright Water: Truth and Bright Water is a coming-of-age novel by Thomas King set in the Canadian Prairies on the Canada–United States border. Magic realism: Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a genre of narrative fiction and, more broadly, art (literature, painting, film, theatre, etc.) that, while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts, expresses a primarily realistic view of the real world while also adding or revealing magical elements.
Thomas King