Little White Squaw
A White Woman's Story of Abuse, Addiction, and Reconciliation
by Eve Mills Nash and Kenneth J. Harvey
Eve Mills Nash biography
Kenneth J. Harvey biography
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I was only six when I suspected my skin might be
the wrong colour....
Born female and on the wrong side of the tracks, Eve Mills Nash,
with the help of co-author Kenneth J. Harvey, tells a hard-hitting
tale of a lifelong fascination with men of a darker hue.
From early childhood, Nash knew it was “something to do with what
was inside the bottles” that encouraged the groping male fingers that
casually abused her during her parents’ drunken parties. She soon
discovered that the wine remnants in the revellers’ discarded cups
would numb her pain.
Nash’s fortuneteller grandmother predicted a future of violence for
her, starting as a teenager with her marriage to first husband Stan,
an Ontario Mohawk. What Nash’s grandmother didn’t prophesize was the
drunken binges and revolving door of unstable partners that
traumatized her children, left her suicidal, and convinced her she was
a failure as a mother after her eldest daughter became a cocaine
addict.
Harrowing yet life-affirming, this blistering account of life on
the cusp of New Brunswick’s Native community sees the Little White
Squaw and her children balance precariously between two seemingly
irreconcilable cultures and colours.
6 X 9 Trade paperback 384 pp
ISBN
0-88878-427-9 $22.95 CDN $18.95 US |
