Sufferance is a classic Thomas King novel, featuring an Indigenous protagonist, Jeremiah Camp, who fled the corporate world and now lives in a residential school with a cat. His daily routine involves stops at the local bakery and coffee shop, followed by uprooting and burning the crosses at the school graveyard and replacing them with stone markers. He is haunted by the dead, by his past, and by the injustices and legacy of colonialism in the world today, and does not speak. Still there is humour in Camp's wry observations and in some of the town caricatures, like the corrupt Mayor Bob.

I found the ending a bit anticlimactic and most of the characters a bit lacking in complexity. Also I found Lala a bit annoying but that could be just down to the narrator of the audiobook's choices (he was otherwise great).