Jessica McDiarmid is a Canadian journalist who has worked across North America and Africa. Her first book, Highway of Tears, was a finalist for the RBC Taylor Prize and the Hubert Evans Prize and a national bestseller.

Highway of Tears
“A bracing look at a national problem.”
—The Globe and Mail
“An extraordinary book.”
—Whoopi Goldberg
“[A] riveting expose… Highway of Tears is a wake-up call for Canada.”
—RBC Taylor Prize jury (Margaret Atwood, Coral Ann Howells and Peter Theroux)