“Don’t cry” and “I love you” were oft-repeated phrases that resonated with this GG-award winning Cree author throughout his childhood. Certainly, the loved ones who uttered those words contributed to McLeod’s remarkable, multiple bounce-backs from unspeakable events — events the author does indeed speak, and, in his new memoir Peyakow, write about, with strength and courage. He tells us when he did break rather than bounce and also, with his trademark humour, shares how he bounced back from bureaucracy.

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