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Come Walk With Me, A Memoir
Come Walk With Me, a Memoir brings my career full circle.
About the BookIn 1983, Beatrice Mosionier (then Culleton) blazed onto the stage of Canadian literature with the publication of her first novel, In Search of April Raintree. With searing clarity, Mosionier explored the struggle of two Metis sisters to make sense of the powerlessness, racism and loss that loomed so large in their lives. For years, readers have been asking: how much of April Raintree’s story is from the author’s own life? Come Walk with Me, a Memoir, is the answer to that question. In it she recounts a life that often parallels that of her most memorable fictional character. Like April, Mosionier confronts great loss – of family, of innocence, and of dignity. However, whereas April is just beginning her quest for self-realization, Mosionier shares with us how she found fulfillment – artistically, politically, and personally. She also includes the recovery of her powerful bond with her mother, a bond nearly destroyed by the family’s separation in 1952. Click here to learn more about my reasons for writing this memoir.
“Fascinating to read . . . This memoir functions as a mini-history about Aboriginal and non-Native writers, about publishing and politics, offered by an important figure in the development of Canadian Aboriginal literature.”
- Paul DePasquale, Department of English, University of Winnipeg
About Beatrice MosionierBorn in St. Boniface, Manitoba in 1949, Beatrice Mosionier was the youngest in a family of four children and placed in foster care at age 3. Following the suicides of her sisters, Vivian in 1964 and Kathy in 1980, Beatrice was compelled to take up writing. The result was the novel, In Search of April Raintree, published in 1983. The book remains one of Canada’s most popular works of Aboriginal literature and launched the Manitoba literacy initiative On the Same Page in 2008. Beatrice previously worked as publisher of Pemmican Publications and has written more books of fiction, a play and a short film. She lives in Manitoba with her husband.
Letters and Reviews:
Some media reviews have come in, along with a few letters, and lots of very moving comments from readers. I can’t post the comments but I’d like to share excerpts of what I do have.
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