news | Thursday June 18, 2026
The powerful new work of autofiction Growing My Way Home by Jenn Ashton is named on CBC Books’ list of books to read this June in honour of Indigenous History Month. Based on Ashton’s teenage diaries, Growing My Way Home follows our narrator through her time as a 13-year-old drug dealer, a teenage parent, and finally an award-winning artist. Check out all of CBC Books’ recommendations for Indigenous-authored works to pick up here.