Cea Sunrise Person is living proof that you don’t have to have a formal education, you don’t have to have University degrees, you don’t have to have years of journalistic experience, and you don’t have to have years of writing and publishing experience to write an excellent story.
The Kootenay Plains in Northern Alberta is a beautiful part of the Province, nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. But it is no place to live in a tipi with dysfunctional grandparents and a barely functioning mother. What could possibly go wrong?
But it gets worse. From the Kootenay Plains onto the Stoney Indian Reservation, again in a tent, and from there Amanda recounts following her mother's ill-considered choices in partners allthroughout her adolescence.
At times heartwarming, and as often heartbreaking, Cea Person vividly interprets these experiences for us from her perspective as a child growing up. A child that has the utmost faith in her grandparents and single mother, and whose upbringing was very far removed from “normal”. Cea’s honest and uncompromising story of her childhood is an excellent read and I highly recommend it.