Birdie (22 page)

TRACEY LINDBERG
is a citizen of As’inYwa’chi Ni’yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree and hails from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation community. She is an award-winning academic writer and teaches Indigenous studies and Indigenous law at two universities in Canada. She sings the blues loudly, talks quietly and is next in a long line of argumentative Cree women. This is her first novel.

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“Birdie
roars with life. Tracey Lindberg weaves a gripping account of a painful journey. Her heroine Bernice is by turns lyrical and brutal, gripping and insightful. An uncompromising first novel.”
— EDEN ROBINSON
Award-winning author of
Monkey Beach
and
Blood Sports

“This is a gritty, articulate, beautifully written novel, and Lindberg is a powerful new voice on the literary landscape and on the road to decolonization.”
—
MARIA CAMPBELL
Award-winning author of
Halfbreed

“A stunning debut novel, grounded in the sheer beauty of Cree poetics, love, and a benevolence few of us are lucky enough to know. The brilliance of Indigenous women dances off each page—this story is our story, so carefully woven together into a tapestry that is the spine of our collective beings. I see myself, my family and my life in every sentence. This is the novel Canada has been waiting for.”
—
LEANNE SIMPSON
Award-winning author of
Island of Decolonial Love

Cover illustration: Detail from
Modern Girl, Traditional Mind Set
by George Littlechild, an artist and author of the Cree Nation. 2010. 49″ × 39″. Mixed media on paper.
www.georgelittlechild.com

Birdie
Copyright © 2015 by Tracey Lindberg

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