Four larger portraits at the end return to the image of footsteps

and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people

"An achingly gorgeous debut novel of Indigenous survival

From Julie Flett

vignettes of family stories

Bad Cree Lakota Four larger portraits at theIn 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.