Trafford’s writing is Quakerly: spare and modest, but never lacking in confident flow, illuminating that place and time as Alexander pushes deeper into the heart of the west to find the Light inside himself.” – Marina Endicott

” . . . takes readers into the borderlands of history and fiction, memory and possibility.” – Elizabeth Jameson, Professor of History, University of Calgary

“The most compelling (characters) are the women, who are made of sturdy stuff – strong, insightful, fierce and sometimes frightening.”
– Debora Steel, Editor in Chief, Windspeaker

” . . . a refreshing perspective on such Woodlands Cree concepts as the many-faceted wihtiko and the pre-Judaeo-Christian concept of the pawakan. Trafford has achieved what few novelists have managed.” – David Westfall, editor and compiler of Castel’s English Cree Dictionary and Memoirs of the Elders