BOOK TILLY AND THE CRAZY EIGHT

Book Tilly and the Crazy Eights by Monique Gray Smith

When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket-list road trip she impulsively says yes. Before she knows it Tilly has said good-bye to her family and is on an adventure that will transform her in ways she could not predict just as it will for the elders who soon dub themselves "the Crazy Eights".

The Crazy Eights each choose a stop—somewhere or something they've always wanted to experience—on the way to their ultimate goal the Gathering of Nations Powwow in Albuquerque. Their plan is to travel to Las Vegas Sedona and the Redwood Forests with each destination the inspiration for secrets and stories to be revealed. The trip proves to be powerful medicine as they laugh heal argue and dream along the way. By time their bus rolls to a stop in New Mexico Tilly and the Crazy Eights with friendships forged and hearts mended feel ready for anything. But are they?

MONIQUE GRAY SMITH is Cree Lakota and Scottish and a proud mom of teenage twins. she is an accomplished consultant writer and international speaker. Her first novel Tilly: A story of Hope and Resilience won the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations Métis and Inuit Literature. She is also the author of several books for children including You Hold Me Up My Heart Fills With Happiness and Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation. Monique and her family are blessed to live on the traditional territory of the WSANEC people near Victoria British Columbia.