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What is Just Pretending about?

From one of Canada's most exciting new Métis voices, Lisa Bird-Wilson, comes a book whose recurring themes include the complexities of identity, belonging/not belonging, Aboriginal adoption, loss and abandonment, regret and insecurity. A deadbeat dad tries to reconnect with his daughter after 22 years away. A selfish poet has been scarred by an upbringing that leaves him emotionally distant from his children and spouse. A pot-smoking middle-aged man undertakes a modest quest for meaning following a brush with mortality. A fourteen-year-old girl struggles to come to terms with her feelings of abandonment. The characters are often fragile, sometimes unlikeable, but ultimately can be identified or sympathized with. At the centre of the stories are notions of identity and belonging, and the complex relationships between children and parents, both those who are real and those who are just pretending.°°°Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Cree-Metis writer from Saskatchewan whose writing has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies, including Grain, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review, Geist, kimiwan, cîhcêwêsin and Best Canadian Essays. She is the author of the novel Just Pretending

Who reads Just Pretending?

Author

Lisa Bird-Wilson; hoopla digital

Publisher

Coteau Books; Regina, SK: Coteau Books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781550507362

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.02 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14