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Crow Mary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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Overview

Crow Mary is a historical novel by Canadian author Kathleen Grissom that was published in 2023. Grissom traces the life story of Goes First, or Crow Mary, a real-life Indigenous woman of the Crow (Apsáalooke) nation who lived in 19th-century North America. Through her story, Grissom focuses on the Colonial Trauma and Indigenous Survival, The Resilience of Indigenous Women, and Cultural Conflict and Cross-Cultural Understanding. Grissom is a New York Times best-selling author known for her historical novels exploring the history of North America.

This guide refers to the 2023 e-book edition published by Atria Books.

Content Warning: The source text and this guide discuss racism, colonialism and colonial violence, sexual assault, alcohol addiction, death of an infant, and death of a loved one. The text contains offensive terminology against Indigenous people, which this guide reproduces only in quotations.

Plot Summary

In the Prologue, Crow Mary pours strychnine into a whiskey bottle, preparing to kill a man. The narrative then returns to Crow Mary’s childhood and unfolds chronologically. Crow Mary grows up as Goes First with her family in a village of the Crow tribe.

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