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Probably Ruby / Lisa Bird-Wilson.
"Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is placed in a foster home and adopted by Alice and Mel, a less-than-desirable couple who can't afford to complain too loudly about Ruby's Indigenous roots. But when her new parents' marriage falls apart, Ruby begins to search, in the unlikeliest of places, for her Indigenous identity. Unabashedly self-destructing on alcohol, drugs and bad relationships, Ruby grapples with the meaning of the legacy left to her. Seeking understanding of how we come to know who we are, Probably Ruby explores how we find and invent ourselves in ways as peculiar and varied as the experiences of Indigenous adoptees themselves."-- Dust jacket flap.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385696685 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 254 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Doubleday Canada, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | Indigenous women > Canada > Fiction. Adopted children > Canada > Fiction. Identity (Psychology) > Fiction. Self-destructive behavior > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC BirdW | 31681010246866 | FICTION | Available | - |
LISA BIRD-WILSON is a Saskatchewan Métis and nêhiyaw writer whose work appears in literary magazines and anthologies across Canada. She is a founding member and chair of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Writers Circle Inc (SAWCI). Her fiction book, Just Pretending (Coteau Books), was a finalist for the national Danuta Gleed Literary Award and won four Saskatchewan Book Awards, including the 2014 Book of the Year. In 2019, it was selected to be the Saskatchewan One Book One Province campaign choice to promote reading across the province. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
