By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Eliza Sunshine is the powerful new novel from Governor General\u2019s Award-winning author Michelle Good. It is based on the life of her mother Martha Eliza Soonias Stiff. \u201cIt was 1999 when that strange little conversation that was sort of between (my mother and me) but not between us happened,\u201d said Good, who is a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. \u201cAnd I felt an obligation ever since then. Not only an obligation, but a real desire to tell that story because it’s so unique.\u201d Good, however, takes the story beyond her mother, who the character Eliza Sunshine is based on. \u201cMy first challenge was what is the structure of this? How do I tell this story? And it came… <\/p>\n
By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Eliza Sunshine is the powerful new novel from Governor General\u2019s Award-winning author Michelle Good. It is based on the life of her mother Martha Eliza Soonias Stiff. \u201cIt was 1999 when that strange little conversation that was sort of between (my mother and me) but not between us happened,\u201d said Good, who is a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. \u201cAnd I felt an obligation ever since then. Not only an obligation, but a real desire to tell that story because it’s so unique.\u201d Good, however, takes the story beyond her mother, who the character Eliza Sunshine is based on. \u201cMy first challenge was what is the structure of this? How do I tell this story? And it came... <\/p>\n