**Shortlisted for the 2018 Toronto Book Award
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Shortlisted for the First Nation Communities READ 2018-2019 Award
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a
question from the audience, one she couldn't possibly answer at that
moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has
passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too
big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which
touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law,
prejudice and reconciliation, to name a few, are the heart of My
Conversations with Canadians.
In essays that are both conversational and direct, Maracle seeks not to
provide any answers to these questions she has lived with for so long.
Rather, she thinks through each one using a multitude of experiences she
has had as a First Nations leader, a woman, a 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 reimagining of the future of our nation.