About the Book Rose of the North is a novel about a young teacher, Anne Granger, who travels to a remote Native community in northwestern Canada and falls in love with a local Native man. When her family learns about Anne´s involvement, they are very upset. The book outlines the resultant clash with Anne´s conservatively religious parents, and details aspects of the educational situation in a northern Canadian Native community.

About the Author John W. Friesen
John W. Friesen, a United Church minister at Alberta's Stoney Indian Reserve, is a man of God and a man of action. He has penned more than 30 books, including "The Riel/Real Story" (1994, Borealis), and "Aboriginal Spirituality and Biblical Theology: Closer Than You Think" (2000). He has holds degrees and diplomas from many post-secondary institutions, among them the University of Kansas and Trinity Theology Seminary, and teaches First Nations history and education at the University of Calgary.

Also by the Author Do Christians Forgive: Well, Some Do ... (2000)
Community Doukhobors (1996)
Riel/Real Story (1996)