Tracee Andrews is a mental health ally, former paramedic, author and an amazing Canadian. After graduating from the Justice Institute of British Columbia’s Paramedic Academy, the author spent most of her sixteen year medical career working in Vancouver’s infamous Downtown Eastside. In her first novel, she delves into the lives and histories of the people she came to know while working as a paramedic in Canada’s poorest neighborhood. Tracee’s book speaks to one of Canada’s greatest wrongs and its lasting impact on generations of people, related and otherwise. It is a story of how institutionalized bigotry has shaped Canada’s relationship with its First Nations Peoples. It exposes a dark, and until recently, hidden chapter in Canadian history, that of Indian Residential Schools; the effects of which the Canadian Government now acknowledges as being “profoundly negative.”
