Birdie, a novel, Tracey Lindberg
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Birdie, a novel, Tracey Lindberg
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Birdie
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Tracey Lindberg
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a novel
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"A big, beautiful Cree woman with a dark secret in her past, Bernice (Birdie) Meetoos, 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 the leftover teenaged desire to meet Pat John - Jesse fom 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 the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions, Birdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from tragedy"--Front flap.
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