Birdie, Tracey Lindberg
Birdie, Tracey Lindberg
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Birdie

Author: Tracey Lindberg

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/23/2017


Synopsis

Bernice Meetoos will not be broken. A big, beautiful Cree woman with a dark secret in her past, Bernice ("Birdie") has left her home in northern Alberta to travel to Gibsons, B.C. She is on something of a vision quest, looking for family, for home, for understanding. She is also driven by the leftover teenaged desire to meet Pat Johns--Jesse from The Beachcombers--because he is, as she says, a working, healthy Indian man. Birdie heads for Molly's Reach to find answers, but they are not the ones she expected. With the arrival in Gibsons of her Auntie Val and her cousin Skinny Freda, Birdie begins to draw from her dreams the lessons she was never fully taught in life. Informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions, Birdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from tragedy. At heart, it is the story of an extraordinary woman who travels to the deepest part of herself to find the strength to face the past and to build a new life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krista

No one ever talked about a lot of things. What happened to Freda's mom. Why Freda lived with everyone at one time or another. Why Maggie stopped talking to anyone. When the electricity would come back on. Why no one stayed with the uncles. The silence about what was happening around them seeped i......more

Goodreads review by Allison

How to rate this book? How to rate a piece of abstract art? How to rate poetry that is like nothing else you've ever encountered? It was only in the last quarter that I decided to give this book at 4* rating. I struggled with the first half or more, both with the tragic story itself, and with the wri......more

Goodreads review by Leanne

Coming in May! 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 collec......more