Tears in the Grass

By Lynda A. Archer

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction -- Shortlisted

For Elinor Greystone, the only way forward is back into the past.

At ninety years of age, Elinor, a Saskatchewan Cree artist, inveterate roll-your-own smoker, and talker to rivers and stuffed bison, sets out to find something that was stolen almost a lifetime ago. With what little time she has left, she is determined to find the child taken from her after she, only a child herself, was raped at a residential school.

It is 1968, and a harsh winter and harsher attitudes await Elinor, her daughter, and her granddaughter as they set out on an odyssey to right past wrongs, enduring a present that tests their spirit and chips away at their aboriginal heritage. Confronting a history of trauma, racism, love, and cultural survival, Tears in the Grass is the story of an unflagging woman searching for the courage to open her heart to a world that tried to tear it out.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459732111
• ISBN13: 9781459732117
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"