Bad Cree
Overview
A haunting debut novel where dreams, family, and spirits collide.
Night after night, Mackenzie — a young Cree woman living in Vancouver — has dreams that return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death. But when the waking world starts closing in, too — crows stalk her every move around the city; she gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be Sabrina — Mackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alone. Desperate for help, she returns to her mother, sister, cousin, and aunties in her small Alberta hometown. Together, they try to uncover what is haunting Mackenzie before it’s too late.
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- Paperback
- 216mm x 135mm
- 272 pages
- 9781914484612
- GBP£14.99
- 9 February 2023
- UK & Commonwealth (ex. Can)
- CookeMcDermid Agency
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Praise
‘A rare voice in contemporary fiction. Her debut novel similarly carves out a unique space.’
‘At once stunning, terrifying, and deeply affecting, in Bad Cree, the reader is invited to flock with Jessica Johns through soaring prose glistening with the power of family, Cree culture, and togetherness. A novel that haunts; a novel impossible to put down.’
About the Author
Jessica Johns is a Nehiyaw aunty and member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. Her writing has been published in numerous literary magazines, and her short story ‘Bad Cree’ won the 2020 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.

