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Hopeless in Hope
Wanda John-Kehewin
Ages: 14+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Highwater Press/Portage & Main Press
ISBN: 978-1774-92083-1
Keywords: Cree, residential school. foster care, mother-daughter, alcoholism, grandmother, sibling, generational trauma, First Nations, Canada
When her grandmother is hospitalized, 14-year-old Eva, a Cree girl from British Columbia, winds up in a group home, separated from her four-year-old brother, alcoholic mother, and beloved cat.