BIRDIE

Book ID/图书代码： 06002015B84793

English Summary/英文概要： Monkey Beach meets Green Grass, Running Water meets The Beachcombers in this wise and funny novel by a debut Cree author.

Birdie is 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 (one of the only television shows available on CBC North) that come to her in her dreams. She is 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 they are not the ones she expected.

With the arrival in Gibsons of her Auntie Val and her cousin Skinny Freda, Bernice finds the strength to face the past and draw the lessons from her dreams that she was never fully taught in life. Part road trip, dream quest and travelogue, the novel touches on the universality of women’s experience, regardless of culture or race.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书是一部打动人心的黑暗喜剧小说处女作，讲述了一个从过去伤痛中恢复的故事，同时包含了克里族的知识和智慧。克里族人Bernice Meetoos在遭受悲剧打击之后离开了阿尔伯塔省北部家乡，前往Gibsons。她踏上了寻梦之路，试图理解《节俭美食》（CBC North电视台唯一的电视节目）在梦中给她传递的信息。同时，她也受到儿时梦想的驱使，想见到在《The Beachcombers》中扮演Jesse的演员Pat Johns。她觉得他是个勤奋、健康的印第安男人。Bernice前往Molly’s Reach寻找答案，结果却出乎她的意料。随着Bernice的阿姨和表哥来到Gibsons，她终于找到了面对过去并从梦境中吸取教训的理想。小说包含了公路行、追梦、游记等元素，触及了各种文化和种族中的女性的普遍经历和体验。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：这是一部非常出色的有关加拿大第一民族的小说处女作！唯一的问题是尚未在美国发行！

Great 1st novel of a realistic look at a 1st nations modern woman! Only problem not released in USA!

About the Author/作者介绍： TRACEY LINDBERG，来自阿尔伯特北部，拥有克里族血统，法学教授，原住民权利活动家。曾担任渥太华大学的法学教授，目前在阿萨巴斯卡大学担任世界原住民知识中心（Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge）主席，原住民传统知识、法律秩序与法学加拿大研究中心主席（Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, Legal Orders and Laws）。

Lindberg教授发表了众多有关原住民法律及女性的论文，同时也进行小说创作，作品发表于各类文学期刊。她还是一位蓝调歌手。她称自己是个好辩的克里族女人。本书是她的第一部长篇小说。

TRACEY LINDBERG, a woman of Cree-Metis ancestry from northern Alberta, is a professor of law and an Indigenous-rights activist. 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. She was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal, the most prestigious award given to a doctoral student in humanities (other past recipients include Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Robert Bourassa and Gabrielle Roy). She has been professor of law at the University of Ottawa and is currently at Athabasca University, where she is Chair of the Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and the Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, Legal Orders and Laws.

Professor Lindberg has published many legally based articles in areas related to Indigenous law and Indigenous women, and she is also a fiction writer, with stories published in a number of literary journals, as well as a blues singer. As she describes herself, she is next in a long line of argumentative Cree women. This is her first novel.

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