June and her sister, lyn, are NDNs real ones. Lyn has her pottery artwork, her precocious kid, Willow, and the uncertain terrain of her midlife to keep her mind, heart and hands busy. June, a Metis Studies professor, yearns to uproot from Vancouver and move. With her loving partner, Sigh, June decides to buy a house in the last place on earth she imagined shed end up back home in Winnipeg with her family. But then into lyn and Junes busy lives a bomb drops their estranged and very white mother, Renee, is called out as a pretendian. Under the name (get this) Raven Bearclaw, Renee had topped the charts in the Canadian art world for winning awards and recognition for her Indigenousstyle work. The news is quickly picked up by the media and sparks an enraged online backlash. As the sisters are pulled into the painful tangle of lies their mother has told, searing memories from their unresolved childhood trauma come rippling to the surface. In prose so powerful it could strike a match, real ones is written with the same signature wit and heart on display in The Break, The Strangers and The Circle. An energetic, probing and ultimately hopeful story, real ones pays homage to the longfought, hardwon battles of Michif (Metis) people to regain ownership of their identity and the right to say who is and isnt Metis.

Binding: Paperback;312 pages; Publisher: Prentice Hall Press; Classification: FA; Weight: 382 g; Dimensions: 132 x 204 x 24

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