Pilgrimage | 
Oops...somehow I ended up with two of these. Would anyone like a copy? I will send on to first person who raises their hand!
It was such a treat to have the author at our book club meeting tonight. 😊😊😊
pickWomen's lives in the 19th century at the edge of the boreal forest. Set in Lac Ste Anne, which was a place sacred to Indigenous peoples before it became a Catholic pilgrimage site. (It's 75 km west of Edmonton, Alberta.) Cree, Métis, and white women support and compete with each other in a changing world. Hardships. Snow. Also, the author's invented solution to a real-life unsolved death that dates back to that time.
Five books for the four book clubs I will attend this month. (We do two at a time in the YA group.) Pilgrimage is the only one I've yet to read. My fingers are crossed that I will like it because the author will be attending our meeting. 😬
Attended a Canadian Literature Centre brown bag lunchtime reading at the University of Alberta today. Diana Davidson said she felt honoured to be invited to book clubs and has attended 28 so far. That emboldened me to invite her to our discussion of Pilgrimage, later this year. She said yes! ? Bring on the "frontier feminist" fiction.
