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Bad Cree = Âcimowin : a novel

Johns, Jessica, author

Overview

When Mackenzie wakes up with a 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, she blinks and the head disappears. Night after night, Mackenzie's dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina's untimely death: a weekend at the family's lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too -- a murder of crows stalks her around the city; she emerges, retching water, from a nightmare of drowning; and she gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be Sabrina -- Mackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alone. Traveling north to her rural hometown in Alberta, she finds her family still grappling with the same grief she ran away to Vancouver to escape. They welcome her back, but their shaky reunion only seems to intensify her dreams and make them more dangerous. What really happened that night at the lake, and what did it have to do with Sabrina's death? Only a bad Cree would put their family at risk, but what if whatever has been calling Mackenzie home was within her all along? John's visceral writing takes us from dreams to a waking nightmare and asks us to find the universal in the personal, uncovering shame, doubt, and denial as she tracks a family's attempts to come to grips with loss\" -- Jacket flap.

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Subject: Cree Indians Fiction. / Dreams Fiction. / Sisters Death Fiction. / Families Alberta Fiction. / Rêves Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Familles Alberta Romans, nouvelles, etc. / FICTION / Horror. / FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology. / FICTION / Indigenous. / Fiction / Horror fiction. / Family Fiction. / Alberta Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780385548694, 0385548699

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR9199.4.J63642 B34 2023	1	BOOK	WAITINSERT