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A CBC Best Book of 2015
A National Post Best Book of the Year
A CBC Writers to Watch 2015 Selection
Finalist for CBC Canada Reads 2016
Finalist for the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award
Finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Finalist for the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction
Finalist for the Evergreen Award
“Twisting, darkly funny, heartbreaking, sometimes brilliant.” —Publishers Weekly
Bernice Meetoos will not be broken.
A big, beautiful Cree woman with a dark secret in her past, Bernice, known as Birdie, has left her home in northern Alberta to travel to Gibsons, B.C. She is on something of a vision quest, looking for family, for home, for understanding. She is also driven by her lingering teenaged desire to meet Pat John—Jesse from The Beachcombers—because he is, as she says, a working, healthy Indian man. Birdie heads for Molly’s Reach to find answers, but they are not the ones she expected.
With the arrival in Gibsons of her Auntie Val and her cousin Skinny Freda, Birdie begins to draw from her dreams the lessons she was never fully taught in life. Informed by Cree traditions and lore, Birdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the near-universal experience of recovering from tragedy. At heart, it is the story of an extraordinary woman who travels to the deepest part of herself to find the strength to face the past and to build a new life.
About: A CBC Best Book of 2015A National Post Best Book of the YearA CBC Writers to Watch 2015 Selection Finalist for CBC Canada Reads 2016Finalist for the Alberta Readers’ Choice AwardFinalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeFinalist for the Georges Bugnet Award for FictionFinalist for the Evergreen Award“Twisting, darkly funny, heartbreaking, sometimes brilliant.
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