Julie Flett is a Vancouver-based Cree/Metis author

A widow and mother

prose poems so vital it feels like they've burst free of punctuation

pre-professional women ethnologists would claim Indians as a special political cause

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood resistance Julie Flett is a Vancouver-basedLouise Erdrichs first major work of nonfiction, the New York Times bestselling The Blue Jays Dance brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the author experienced in the course of one twelve month periodfrom a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall. In exquisitely lyrical