The Novel Idea Society is presented by CBC Saskatchewan in partnership with the Regina Public Library. Hosted by Sam Maciag of the CBC Saskatchewan news at 6.
This event is a hybrid event. Register here to attend online or join the Zoom meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84296328122. Or register here to attend in-person: https://www.reginalibrary.ca/attend/programs/7626761
If you don't have a library card, you can sign up for one here: https://www.reginalibrary.ca/register. Or you can email Courtney Bates-Hardy at chardy@reginalibrary.ca to be registered for this program.
In March, we'll be reading Bad Cree by Jessica Johns.
Book Description: In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.
When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow’s head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears.
Night after night, Mackenzie’s dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family’s lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too—a murder of crows stalks her every move around the city, she wakes up from a dream of drowning throwing up water, and gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be Sabrina—Mackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alone.
Traveling north to her rural hometown in Alberta, she finds her family still steeped in the same grief that she ran away to Vancouver to escape. They welcome her back, but their shaky reunion only seems to intensify her dreams—and make them more dangerous.
What really happened that night at the lake, and what did it have to do with Sabrina’s death? Only a bad Cree would put their family at risk, but what if whatever has been calling Mackenzie home was already inside?
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Indigenous | Books and Storytelling |
TAGS: | Special Event | Book Clubs | Artist and Author Talks |
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