Bearskin Diary _bookmanager Shortlisted for the 2008 Relit

Shortlisted for the 2008 Relit Award for Fiction

he displays a clear ear for sound

Johnston's characters are able to locate their feelings in a way that's beyond the numbness of Carver's

--Jacqueline Turner

John MacKenzie's Letters I Didn't Write immediately grabs the reader with its conciseness and its poignancy

Bearskin Diary _bookmanager Shortlisted for the 2008 RelitDescription Raw and honest, Bearskin Diary gives voice to a generation of First Nations women who have always been silenced, at a time when movements like Idle No More call for a national inquiry into the missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Carol Daniels adds an important perspective to the Canadian literary landscape. Taken from the arms of her mother as soon as she was born, Sandy was only one of over twenty thousand Aboriginal children scooped