In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (The Regina Collection, 11)

Long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize

A memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the lasting wounds of sexual violence

Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it…

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