My Conversations With Canadians Harkening back to her first book tour at the age of 26 (for the autobiographical novel Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel In this latest addition to BookThug's Essais Series (edited by poet Julie Joosten), Maracle's writing works to engage readers in thinking about the threads that keep Canadians tied together as a nation'and also, at times, threaten to pull us apart'so that the sense of sovereignty and nationhood that she feels may be understood and even embraced by Canadians.