Description
Alicia Elliott is a Mohawk writer and editor living in Brantford, Ontario.
Now in paperback, bestselling essayist Alicia Elliott’s fiction debut, a mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows an Indigenous woman who discovers the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences.
On the surface, Alice is exactly where she thinks she should be: She’s just given birth to a beautiful baby girl; her charming husband Steve is nothing but supportive; and they’ve recently moved into a new home in a posh neighborhood. But Alice could not feel like more of an imposter. She isn’t connecting with her daughter, a struggle made even more difficult by the recent loss of her own mother, and every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from Steve and their ever-watchful neighbors, among whom she’s the sole Indigenous resident. Even when she does have a minute to herself, her perpetual self-doubt hinders the one vestige of her old life she has left: her goal of writing a modern retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story.
Then, as if all that wasn’t enough, strange things start to happen. She finds herself losing bits of time and hearing voices she can’t explain, all while her neighbors’ passive-aggressive behavior begins to morph into something far more threatening. Though Steve assures her this is all in her head, Alice cannot fight the feeling that something is very, very wrong, and that in her creation story lies the key to her and her daughter’s survival…She just has to finish it before it’s too late.