Maia Caron

Maia Caron is an Indigenous author, reading from her latest novel, The Last Secret. Her first novel, Song of Batoche, is a historical novel that was a CBC must-read book for 2018. The Toronto Star described the novel as a “tale of love, betrayal and obsession,” and Shelagh Rogers of CBC’s The Last Chapter said it was an “ambitious, broad, sweeping, historical mystery.” The Last Secret is a sweeping, dazzling, dual-timeline historical novel centering on two unforgettable women—a Ukrainian resistance fighter in 1944 Ukraine and a reclusive artist on Salt Spring Island in 1972—and their inextricable link to each other decades apart. Maia Caron is a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation and lives on Vancouver island.