When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very different view of the world.