Vivid nightmares become too real: NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Jessica Johns about her novel, "Bad Cree." It's about a young woman dealing with the loss of her sister and with supernatural forces.

Jessica Johns' thriller, Bad Cree, opens with a startling image: a severed crow's head in someone's hand. In today's episode, Johns tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe she hoped that image would set the tone ...

(Reading) Before I look down, I know it's there. The crow's head I was clutching in my dream is now in the bed with me. That's the start of "Bad Cree," a gripping thriller all about a young Cree woman ...