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    Just Pretending

    By Lisa Bird-Wilson

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    About this ebook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoteau Books
    Release dateApr 2, 2013
    ISBN9781550507362
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