Reviews:
Come Walk With Me, a Memoir

“Published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press, Come Walk With Me, a Memoir tells Mosionier’s own life story, which includes the challenge of being placed in foster care as a child and the tragic loss of her sisters to suicide, Vivian in 1964 and Kathy in 1980. The book’s cover features pictures of Mosionier’s parents, as well as Mosionier, Vivian and Kathy.

It was after her mother’s death that Mosionier finally decided to listen to tapes of an interview her mother had done in which she talked about her life. Mosionier knew her mother had a hard life, but gained new understanding after listening to her mother’s story and felt compelled to tell it along with her own.

Mosionier hopes that by sharing her own joys, struggles and, ultimately, her survival, readers who have faced their own life challenges will find hope and strength in her story, and the knowledge that even in the face of difficulty, one can carry on.”

- Brenda Fehr, The Prime Times, October 29, 2009

In search of Beatrice Mosionier

“Métis writer Beatrice Mosionier (formerly Beatrice Culleton) made a big splash with her groundbreaking acclaimed first book, In Search of April Raintree. Now more than 20 years later, she’s just published a memoir – a moving, even inspirational, book called Come Walk With Me (HighWater Press).

As what happened with far too many Canadians, government bureaucrats broke up her family and Mosionier was raised by white foster parents. In the memoir, she conveys her confusion during childhood visits with her family, when no one told her her family had been split apart.

Mosionier also writes openly about her parents’ alcoholism, the tragic, premature loss of her sisters to suicide and her long-dysfunctional relationship with her first husband.

Still, with help from friends, family and some helpful social workers, as well as her strong spiritual sense, Mosionier rebuilt her life. She reveals growing awareness of institutional racism, why she felt compelled to write her most famous work and how she reconnected with her First Nations heritage.

In direct, unadorned prose, Mosionier tells her story of cultural tragedy and personal triumph.”

- Quentin Mills-Fenn, Uptown Magazine, November 12, 2009

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