Pilgrimage

Set in a brutal time, this novel is both lovely and ultimately heartbreaking. This is a stunning tale of survival, sex, and secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer to watch—this is a BRAVA! debut novel. —Thomas Trofimuk, author of Waiting for Columbus

Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust. —Pauline Holdstock, author of Into the Heart of the Country

"Davidson’s Pilgrimage is a stunning novel that recreates a wild and grim Canada, a time rife with sexism and racism, a time that has been re-written and re-imagined by historians and scholars over the years. Davidson has masterfully turned the tables on these historical “facts” by using them create a fictional world more real than the one found in any history book." —PRISM International

"The women in Pilgrimage live a hard life. They have little power and few choices. Yet, they find ways to survive. They care for each other and dare to dream and love. Their inner strength and resilience is what gives this tragic story hope." —The Winnipeg Review

"...an edifying, smartly written portrait of northern Alberta in the 1890s with characters that stick to the bones." —The Edmonton Journal

"Diana Davidson does a solid job in her debut novel, Pilgrimage, of recreating both the physical landscape of Lac St. Anne, in the Edmonton, Alberta, area, and the ideologies that affect its inhabitants’ behaviour from December, 1891 to March, 1893." —The Coastal Spectator

"Davidson's work . . . is not for tender bellies. Pilgrimage is a serious work of litearature that compels the reader to ask questions about how Canada's past has shaped our bodies and voices, about the realitites of aboriginal ownership of land, and about the historical ownership of women's bodies by men." —The Humber Literary Review