Angeline Boulley will be in Vancouver on Sept. 6 during Truth and Reconciliation month for an event to celebrate her new novel Sisters in the Wind.

An emotional novel about belonging and survival, Sisters in the Wind tells the story of Lucy Smith — a teenage girl in the foster system who discovers her Ojibwe identity, a sister she never knew she had, and a family that had been kept from her.

Boulley — who’s an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and penned the New York Times bestsellers Firekeeper’s Daughter and Warrior Girl — will be doing a public book launch event, which includes a conversation between Boulley and Shannon Ozirny, at the Museum of Vancouver on Sept. 6 at 3 p.m. (tickets are $29.50).

Postmedia caught up with Boulley, who lives in M

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