<p>A powerful short story collection from Cree-Métis author Lisa Bird Wilson.</p><p>A <i>nitanis</i> (daughter) invents the mother she never knew. A fourteen-year-old girl struggles to come to terms with her feelings of abandonment. A young man struggles with his Mooshum’s imprisonment in a damaged body and what it means for his own Métis identity. A department store clerk falls for a homeless man who woos her with <i>Heart of Darkness</i>.</p><p>At the centre of these 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.</p>