La Fleur releases new book written for adult readers
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Author Nancy La Fleur is comparing her latest book Stella Coyote: Where Do We Go From Here as the Indigenous version of Fifty Shades of Grey.
“The reaction I’m getting is a lot of people are enjoying the humour because it’s a really raw book,” she said. “I wrote the book from Stella Coyote’s perspective, so she writes her story. It has a lot of broken English and grammatical errors. As you go through the story, you kind of fit those pieces together.”
The story follows Coyote after she leaves the foster care system when she is 17 and begins wandering across the land taking odd jobs. Along the way, she goes through an array of incidents and experiences until she ends up making her way home to Birch Creek First Nation.
“Stella ends up looking after this man who is in a coma, so to pass the time, she starts writing her stories and that’s how the story kind of goes, is her reminiscing back to all the craziness in her life,” La Fleur said. “That’s why I called it Where Do We Go From Here, because she’s always kind of wondering around and getting into all kinds of crazy situations.”
