L'épidémie de grippe asiatique des années 1950 atteint la Colombie-Britannique et ravage la communauté. Les Autochtones sont livrés à eux-mêmes et les médecins blancs négligent de les soigner. La jeune Stacey, sa mère et les autres femmes du clan de Loup se serrent les coudes, enterrent leurs morts, à l'ombre de la prophétie de Corbeau : « Les grandes tempêtes façonnent la terre, font éclore la vie, débarrassent le monde de tout ce qui est vieux pour faire place au neuf. Les humains appellent ça des catastrophes. Ce sont juste des naissances. »

Il y a une certaine impuissance au fait d'être témoin. Plus personne ne vient ici à part moi. On dirait que je ne peux m'empêcher de revenir dans ce lieu où tout le monde est mort. Résumé Doué du pouvoir de se métamorphoser afi n de fouiner dans les histoires des gens et d'écouter les chants secrets de la forêt, Vison connaît tout de l'origine du mal qui s'abat sur Celia et le village nuu'chalnulth de la côte du Pacifi que. Tout s'effondre depuis que le pacte entre les animaux et les humains a été rompu. Celia possède un don de voyance, mais elle doute de ses capacités. Sa vie est faite d'incertitudes ; son mariage a échoué et son fi ls unique, Jimmy, s'est suicidé. Habitée par une vision horrible du passé, elle vit dans la maison de sa grand-mère, où elle s'accroche à un reste de réconfort. Son univers est ébranlé par l'agression de Shelley, une toute petite fi lle. La communauté s'unit, renouant avec la tradition des ancêtres, pour sauver l'enfant et la mettre sur le chemin de la guérison. Surgit alors le serpent à deux têtes pour le meilleur et pour le pire.

Throughout their youth, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter wrote poetry with their mother, award-winning author Lee Maracle. The three always dreamed that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream.The wide-ranging poems in Hope Matters focus on the journey of Indigenous peoples from colonial beginnings to reconciliation. But they also document a very personal journey—that of a mother and her two daughters.Written collaboratively, Hope Matters offers a blend of three distinct and exciting voices that come together in a shared song of hope and reconciliation.

My Conversations With Canadians is the book that "Canada150" needs. Harkening back to her first book tour at the age of 26 (for the autobiographical novel Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel), and touching down upon a multitude of experiences she's had as a Canadian, a First Nations leader, a woman and mother and grandmother over the course of her life, Lee Maracle's My Conversations with Canadians presents a tour de force exploration into the writer's own history and a re-imagining of the future of our nation. In this latest addition to BookThug's Essais Series (edited by poet Julie Joosten), Maracle's writing works to engage readers in thinking about the threads that keep Canadians tied together as a nation—and also, at times, threaten to pull us apart—so that the sense of sovereignty and nationhood that she feels may be understood and even embraced by Canadians.

Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality, feminism and the colonial condition of her people. Powerful and inspiring, Memory Serves is an extremely timely book, not only because it is the first collection of oratories by one of the most important Indigenous authors in Canada, but also because it offers all Canadians, in Maracle's own words, "another way to be, to think, to know," a way that holds the promise of a "journey toward a common consciousness." Praise for Memory Serves "[a]t this fertile moment for change in the relationship between Canada's indigenous and nonindigenous peoples, Lee Maracle's new collection of oratories ... takes on even greater significance." ~ Brian Lynch, The Georgia Straight "The topics she covers, the approaches she employs, and the strength of her language highlight the reasons the author has been a driving force in Canadian aboriginal culture for decades. Memory Serves adds to the vital canon of Canadian aboriginal literature." ~ Alexis Kienlen, Quill & Quire "Memory Serves is one of Maracle's greatest books. It is a read that imparts wisdom from a great writer and it will leave you feeling empowered knowing that the wisdom of Maracle's words are being shared with you." ~ Christine Smith (McFarlane), rabble.ca"[Memory Serves] serves by writing down Indigenous "storying up" of events, and by providing Indigenous peoples with arguments for "rematriation" and Canadians with considerable insight into another way of being and creating. The book also richly serves scholars interested in memory; ecological thought; colonization and de-colonization; resilience and reconciliation; the interface between orature and writing; and Stó:lo philosophy and culture, especially the verbal arts." ~ Susan Gingell, Canadian Literature "Memory Serves is a gift to all Canadians. I urge you to unwrap it slowly and get ready for something unlike anything else." ~ Manjeet Birk, Herizons "inspired...." ~ Alicia Elliott, Vice