Tracey Lindberg is a citizen of As’in’i’wa’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. Her first book, Bridie, was a Canada Reads Finalist, Kobo First Book Award Finalist, and Alberta Public Library Reader’s Choice Finalist. She sings the blues loudly, talks quietly and is next in a long line of argumentative Cree women.

Birdie

Bernice Meetoos is a big, beautiful Cree woman with a dark secret in her past. Bernice has left her home in Alberta to travel to Gibsons, B.C. She is on a vision quest, looking for family, for home, for understanding. She is also driven by the leftover teenaged desire to meet Jesse from The Beachcombers because he is a “working, healthy Indian man.” Bernice heads for Molly’s Reach to find answers, but they are not the ones she expected. Informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions, Birdie is a darkly comic and moving novel about the universal experience of recovering from tragedy.