Description

A sequel to First Gear A Motorcycle Memoir Horses in the Sand is a collection of stories that document a queer Mtis womans journey from her sparse beginnings as a child to becoming a tradeswoman teacher and artist With courage humour and frank honesty the stories describe what it was like to grow up as a girl who was starkly different from normal and how coming out became a lifelong process of selfacceptance and changing identities Potvins tales also speak to the difficulties in participating in and maintaining healthy adult relationships when childhood foundations are rooted in violence and trauma culminating with a triumphant account of fulfilling a longtime dream of buying land and building a home with her own hands Ultimately this memoir is a celebration of making art telling stories and of finding her birth father a family of half siblings and an Indigenous community whose presence she had always felt but to which she never knew she belonged