Episode 132: A Sense of Place with Jessica Johns

Don’t build your white settler suburbs on an Indian burial ground. That’s the lesson in this scene from Poltergeist. (1982)

Sometimes, a story is set in a place that isn't just a location. It's a character. How do places come alive? We discuss hauntings, homelands, and what it means to write a landscape that is more than backdrop. Joining us is Jesscia Johns, author of Bad Cree, to talk about how place figures into her novel about a monster who stalks Treaty 8 territory in Alberta, Canada.

Jessica Johns website

Bad Cree, by Jessica Johns