fiction, literary fiction, indigenous fiction, women's fiction, coming of age fiction, marriage and divorce fiction, family life, regional and cultural, Native Canadian, metis fiction, history and criticism, community and culture, memoir, genre fiction

Charly Bedford is a younger Metis woman with a history. Jed Bedford is the older Caucasian man who marries her. The stuff of legend is what unfolds between them.
While a nephew, in the guise of a hired hand, shares their story, and his own.
The postmodern tale of romance, loyalty, lust, and duty plays out against the backdrop of a turbulent summer on the western plains.
Is their world too real to be fiction? Or is today’s world too fictional to be real? To see for yourself, read ‘A Whippoorwill Called’.
T.F. Pruden’s eighth novel explores the roots, myths, favors, and failings of racism, marriage, friendship, and family. Where the past shines a light on today. And showing how it was makes things better tomorrow.

I believe a few people who walk among us are of such rare character they transcend their own times. By now, I’m sure meeting such uncommon persons is quite a gift, too. Well, my latest novel ‘A Whippoorwill Called’ is a story about people like that. You know, the ones neither of us can forget. May you enjoy knowing them as much as I did.