Tears In the Grass (ebook)

Argumento de Tears In the Grass (ebook)

• An elderly Cree artist, joined by her daughter and granddaughter, searches for the child taken from her almost eighty years ago after she was raped in a residential school
• Looks at natural issues of ecosystem destruction and extinction alongside the human trauma of the residential school system
• Explores the 1960s fractured relationship between Native and non-Native people
• A poetic novel filled with the history and stark uniqueness of the spacious, quietly beautiful Saskatchewan landscape
• Author is well connected in the Native community in B.C., though not Native herself

A fresh and poignant story of three generations of Cree women ? Elinor, Louise, and Alice ? setting out to uncover a long-buried secret that will change all of their lives. Set in the Qu'Appelle Valley and prairies in the late 1960s, the novel confronts the trauma of residential schools, and the long, dark shadow they cast over the present.

Tears in the Grass has a powerful relationship with time -- time flowing through three generations of women; time speaking through a museum buffalo; time racing against a long-separated mother and daughter; the timelessness of land and history. Archer?s bold prose, heartfelt characters, and imaginative plot weave a story of loss and redemption, trauma and healing, justice and remembrance. This lovely novel faces hard truths and ancient wounds, while illuminating corners of hope and solace. Read it and be uplifted.

An empathetic, gripping, and wise debut novel.

Lynda's detailed and enthralling story-telling ability will have you captured from the very first page of the book. Her insight into the raw emotions and journey of each of the women is profound and endearing. These are the stories of strong, educated, successful, and compassionate modern-day Canadian Aboriginal women. These stories in many ways are contrary to the dominant stories of how Aboriginal women are portrayed in mainstream media; broken, drug-addicted, and unfit mothers. Lynda?s story of Tears in the Grass gives voice to the very real alternate stories of Aboriginal women in Canada. It is the sharing of [these] stories that will help shift the stereotypes of Aboriginal women and their families. I applaud Lynda for her time, dedication, and passion for the creation of Eleanor's story!

Archer?tells the story of these women with grace and charm?Readers will be compelled to keep turning the pages to find out what will happen next on Elinor?s grand adventure when she sets off to find her long-lost child.

Lynda A. Archer was born and raised in Saskatchewan. She holds a MFA in creative writing and has worked as a clinical psychologist for more than thirty years. Her short stories have been published in The Dalhousie Review, The Wascana Review, and The New Quarterly. Tears in the Grass is her first novel. Lynda lives amidst tall cedars and grand firs on an island in British Columbia.

The treatment of Elinor?s Native spirituality, though risky, adds a convincing dimension to the characters that makes this a story not just about a Native family, but of them.0