Courage and survival key to the past as mothers prepare daughters for the future in new novel

By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Eliza Sunshine is the powerful new novel from Governor General’s Award-winning author Michelle Good. It is based on the life of her mother Martha Eliza Soonias Stiff. “It was 1999 when that strange little conversation that was sort of between (my mother and me) but not between us happened,” said Good, who is a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. “And I felt an obligation ever since then. Not only an obligation, but a real desire to tell that story because it’s so unique.” Good, however, takes the story beyond her mother, who the character Eliza Sunshine is based on. “My first challenge was what is the structure of this? How do I tell this story? And it came…

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