Native American, Literary, Cree women, Self-realization in women, Self-actualization (Psychology), Cree Indians 

A darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions. Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet that come to her in her dreams, but also driven by the leftover teenaged desire to meet Pat Johns, who played Jesse on The Beachcombers, because he is, as she says, a working, healthy Indian man. Bernice heads for Molly?s Reach to find answers but once there finds she is making the same poor decisions as always. Part road trip, dream quest and travelogue, the novel touches on the universality of women's experience, regardless of culture or race. Tracey Lindberg is a woman of Cree-Metis ancestry from northern Alberta. She has a doctoral degree in law as well as law degrees from the University of Ottawa, Harvard Law School and the University of Saskatchewan. 

Genre/Form: Canadian fiction
Alberta author
Fiction
Road fiction
Humorous fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tracey Lindberg
ISBN: 9781554682942 1554682940 9781443451352 1443451355
OCLC Number: 904445094
Description: 266 pages : map ; 23 cm
Contents: Prologue: where she is now-when she made two journeys --
1. Who she is --
2. At home --
3. Bernice travels lightly --
4. Where she is --
5. Many trips, many sufferings --
6. Nowhere --
7. Who will love you --
8. Where she was --
9. What was done was done --
10. She writes her own story --
11. The last travel before the final destination --
12. Love the one that brung you --
13. Home coming/ coming home --
14. Ceremony-what she must do --
15. The shift-who she has become --
Epilogue: where she begins-when Maggie made two journeys.
Series Title: Read Alberta
Responsibility: Tracey Lindberg.