AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: Blue Bear Woman by Virginia Pesempaeo Bordeleau
Publication Date: October 15, 2020 Format: Audio Genre: Native American Lit Narrator: Tai Amy Grauman Publisher: Inanna Publishing Length: 4 hours 45 min Buy: Kindle | Audio Synopsis Blue Bear Woman or Ourse bleue is the first novel in Quebec written by an Indigenous woman. The story of a young Cree woman’s search for her roots and identity, this is also the author’s debut novel, originally published in 2007, and it will be her second book to be published in English. The novel has been described as a “ texte de resistance ”, showing contemporary Indigenous life and the impact on the Cree of the building of the Eastmain dam in Northern Quebec, posited as “virgin” territory, yet which has actually bee...