Just Ask Us: a Conversation with First Nations Teenage Moms by Sylvia Olsen

 ”It’s like all that stuff out there about sex and guys and relationships, it makes it all look so great. That’s all you see. It’s like that’s all life’s about. I wish someone had told me different. I wish I had spent more time with my girlfriends, and played more sports and done more things like dancing. No one told me any different.” (excerpt from page 42.)

Sylvia Olsen’s own experience, when her teenage daughter announced she was pregnant, forms the foundation for this candid and moving book filled with the stories of teenage mothers. It also inspired her novel Girl With a Baby, nominated last year for the Stellar Book Award.