Hope Matters, written by multiple award-winner Lee Maracle, in collaboration with her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, focuses on the journey of Indigenous people from colonial beginnings to reconciliation.

Maracle states that the book, "is also about the journey of myself and my two daughters." During their youth, Bobb and Carter wrote poetry with their mother, and eventually they all decided that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream.

Written collaboratively by all three women, the poems in Hope Matters blend their voices together into a shared song of hope and reconciliation.

About the Author
Lee Maracle is a Professor of Aboriginal Studies at the University of Toronto and an award-winning author and poet. She has received a Writer of the Year' award from Circle Craft, a North American Native writer's circle and the JT Stewart Award for her body of work. She has an Honorary Doctorate from St. Thomas University and received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal.

Reviews

"The writing confronts the reader with the ugly, violent truth and traumatic wounds of colonization, racism, and sexism as inescapably as generations of women have had to face and endure them in their everyday lives. Yet the poetry is a colourful celebration of women's strength, resilience, and power of love that testifies to their determined efforts to make their families, communities, and nations survive and thrive." -Canadian Literature

Book Information
ISBN 9781771664974
Author Lee Maracle
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Book*hug
Publisher Book*hug
Weight(grams) 281g
Dimensions(mm) 222mm * 146mm * 12mm