Born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a Cree mother and a French father, R auna, affectionately known throughout Tremblay's work as "Nana," was sent with her two younger sisters, B a and Alice, to be raised on her maternal grandparents' farm in Sainte-Maria-de-Saskatchewan, a francophone Catholic enclave of two hundred souls. At the age of ten, amid swaying fields of wheat under the idyllic prairie sky of her loving foster family, Nana is suddenly...