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Birdie

✍ Scribed by Tracey Lindberg


Publisher
HarperCollins Canada
Year
2015
Tongue
en-US
Weight
163 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1554682940

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✦ Synopsis


Monkey Beach meets Green Grass, Running Water meets The Beachcombers in this wise and funny novel by a debut Cree author

Birdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions. Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Saskatchewan following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet (one of the only television shows available on CBC North) that come to her in her dreams, but also driven by the leftover teenaged desire to meet Pat Johns, who played Jesse on The Beachcombers, because he is, as she says, a working, healthy Indian man. Bernice heads for Molly's Reach to find answers but once there finds she is making the same poor decisions as always.

With the arrival in Gibsons of her Auntie Val, reputed to be the reserve...


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