Standing in the Footprints of Beasts
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9781774391228 | September 2025 | 264 Pages
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Danica Klewchuk's debut memoir in essays presents a frank view of what it's like to be a woman and have a body.
Standing in the Footprints of Beasts is part trauma and recovery memoir, part travel diary of a writer coming into her own power. With startling clarity and a surprising sense of humour, Danica Klewchuk takes readers behind the curtain of a difficult upbringing in an all-encompassing religious environment in Northern Alberta, then shines a light on challenges she faced as a new recruit to a nightlife industry rife with abuse.
This portrait of an artist-in-waiting continues as the author travels through Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia, adapting her still-malleable identity on the fly as she begins to take hold of her creativity and voice. Standing in the Footprints of Beasts is a striking, empathetic work that marks Klewchuk as an impressive new voice in creative non-fiction from the Prairies.
"This raw and unabashed memoir is the story of the ways a woman's body is not her own, on the streets and in workplaces in Alberta, in Southeast Asia, in Eastern Europe, and of Danica Klewchuk's leaving and returning, leaving and returning, until she no longer needs to. You will be rooting for her all the way." —Astrid Blodgett, author of You Haven’t Changed a Bit
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