From one of Canada's most exciting new Métis voices, Lisa Bird-Wilson, comes a book whose recurring themes include the complexities of identity, belonging/not belonging, Aboriginal adoption, loss and abandonment, regret and insecurity. A deadbeat dad tries to reconnect with his daughter after 22 years away. A selfish poet has been scarred by an upbringing that leaves him emotionally distant from his children and spouse. A pot-smoking middle-aged man undertakes a modest quest for meaning following a brush with mortality. A fourteen-year-old girl struggles to come to terms with her feelings of abandonment. The characters are often fragile, sometimes unlikeable, but ultimately can be identified or sympathized with. At the centre of the stories are notions of identity and belonging, and the complex relationships between children and parents, both those who are real and those who are just pretending. A Debut Short Story Collection From One Of Canada's Most Exciting New Aboriginal Voices. In Our Family, It Was Trish Who Was Going To Be Trouble; I Was Such A Good Girl. At Times Haunting, At Times Hilarious, Just Pretending Explores The Moments In Life That Send Us Down Pathways Predetermined And Not-yet-forged. These Are The Liminal, Defining Moments That Mark Irreversible Transitions N Girl To Mother, Confinement To Freedom, Wife To Murderer. They Are The Melodramatic Car-crash Moments N The Outcomes Both Horrific And Too Fascinating To Tear Our Eyes From. And They Are The Unnoticed, Infinitely Tiny Moments, Seemingly Insignificant (even Ridiculous) Yet Holding The Power To Alter, To Transform, To Make Strange. What Links These Stories Is A Sense Of Characters Working N Both With Success And Without, Through Action Or Reaction N To Separate Reality From Perception And To Make These Moments Into Their Lives' New Truths. From one of Canada's most exciting new Metis voices comes a book whose recurring themes include the complexities of identity, belonging/not belonging, Aboriginal adoption, loss and abandonment, regret and insecurity. A deadbeat dad tries to reconnect with his daughter after 22 years away. A selfish poet has been scarred by an upbringing that leaves him emotionally distant from his children and spouse. A pot-smoking middle-aged man undertakes a modest quest for meaning following a brush with mortality. A fourteen-year-old girl struggles to come to terms with her feelings of abandonment. The characters are often fragile, sometimes unlikeable, but ultimately can be identified or sympathized with. At the centre of the stories are notions of identity and belonging, and the complex relationships between children and parents, both those who are real and those who are just pretending.
A powerful short story collection from Cree-Métis author Lisa Bird Wilson.
A nitanis (daughter) invents the mother she never knew. A fourteen-year-old girl struggles to come to terms with her feelings of abandonment. A young man struggles with his Mooshum’s imprisonment in a damaged body and what it means for his own Métis identity. A department store clerk falls for a homeless man who woos her with Heart of Darkness.
At the centre of these stories are notions of identity and belonging, and the complex relationships between children and parents, both those who are real and those who are just pretending.
A powerful short story collection from Cree-Métis author Lisa Bird-Wilson. A nitanis (daughter) invents the mother she never knew. A fourteen-year-old girl struggles to come to terms with her feelings of abandonment. A young man struggles with his Mooshum's imprisonment in a damaged body and what it means for his own Métis identity. A department store clerk falls for a homeless man who woos her with Heart of Darkness. At the centre of these stories are notions of identity and belonging, and the complex relationships between children and parents, both those who are real and those who are just pretending
