Tears in the Grass

An elderly Cree artist, joined by her daughter and granddaughter, searches for the child taken from her almost eighty years ago after she was raped in a residential school Looks at natural issues of ecosystem destruction and extinction alongside the human trauma of the residential school system Explores the 1960s fractured relationship between Native and non-Native people A poetic novel filled with the history and stark uniqueness of the spacious, quietly beautiful Saskatchewan landscape Author is well connected in the Native community in B.C., though not Native herself