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OLLECTING ART CAN while entertaining visiting exhibitions become a passion from international artists as well. more powerful, and AUDACIOUS Audain approached several mu- more persistent, nicipalities with a proposal that they than the often er- might provide land at a nominal cost for ratic drive to cre- such a museum. While some fudged, ate it. Artists suffer hemmed and hawed, market-savvy creative blocks, endure fallow periods, councillors in Whistler pulled the trig- C ger and Whistler, a resort where British detour up stylistic back alleys that waste precious energy and time before Columbians and visitors from all over AUDAIN the world gather, is actually the ideal proving to be dead ends. Less ego-driven, more objective, location for such a culturally significant collectors have the luxury of picking The Audain Art Museum exclusively regional institution. and choosing what their judgement ✫ and taste tells celebrates made-in-B.C. culture. THE AUDAIN ART MUSEUM OPENED TO THE PUBLIC them is the March 12, 2016 taking only three years best of a field to build from design to opening; light- that is as wide speed to observers, but slug-speed to as the human IF YOU CARE DEEPLY ABOUT B.C., A VISIT TO THE a seasoned developer. imagination. Audain Art Museum can be exhilarating. This new $43.5 million “You feel it’s quick. I think it’s taken a rather long time,” Audain remarked Some col- facility proves that our artistic output—just like our province’s JOHN lectors have to a reporter, noting he’d planned for MOORE been as will- literary output—is vibrant, stupendously original and prodigiously it to open six months earlier. ing to starve alive. It was worth the wait. Whistler pro- as the artists they admire in order to vided one of the last pieces of forested posses a work that nourishes the soul. We don’t need to take second land in the Village and award-winning Michael Audain got the collecting place to anyone. People from all Vancouver architects John and Patri- cia Patkau slipped a building in among bug when he was a university student, over the planet can now see the buying prints on an undergraduate the trees that combines the vaulted, budget to feed his Art Monkey. proof in an afternoon. snow-shedding and light-seeking space Becoming a successful real estate Not only have Michael Audain of traditional European alpine design developer provided the wherewithal to with the contemplative austerity of a and his wife Yoshi Karasawa mi- move up to the hard stuff; museum Japanese temple. quality pieces by often anonymous First raculously bought nearly all the Like a classic Japanese temple or villa, the building is slightly raised, Nations carvers, complemented with artworks on display, they have Michael Audain is a 5th works by contemporary First Nations generation British Columbian. seeming to float among the rich green artists like Bill Reid and Robert David- generated enough support from natural, yet always changing and mys- son, and works by landmark B.C. paint- co-believers to share their art in a fabulous facility (free admission terious, environment evoked by the ers like Emily Carr and E.J. Hughes. works it contains. to humans under age 16)—and they have performed this public Audain was also lucky to find a ✫ woman, his wife Yoshi Karasawa, who service with zero help from the provincial or federal governments. THE BOOK, MASTERWORKS FROM THE AUDAIN Art Museum, Whistler (Figure 1 $45), shared and encouraged his passion The Audain Art Museum is so new there aren’t any directions for art instead of pointing out that is much more than just a pumped up they could have bought a villa in the yet to find it in Whistler village; let alone a single promotional sign brochure or deluxe souvenir. Ian M. south of France for what some of these along the Sea to Sky Highway. Thom, senior curator, historical, at pieces cost. the Vancouver Art Gallery, does a thor- Our Squamish-based correspondent John Moore sends this Together they assembled an unri- oughly professional job of describing valled collection of works by British report on the museum and a new book about it by Ian Thom. the 59 photographic plates that provide Columbian artists that spans more But do yourself a favour—see it for yourself. — A.T. a sampler of the Audain Collection. than 200 years, a collection unique in continued on page 8 its tight regional and historical focus. Inevitably, Audain and Karasawa hit the wall that lurks in wait for serious collectors; having spent a lifetime assembling a world- class art collection, what do you do with it? Sit back and bask privately in the reflec- tion of your own impeccable taste? No, you want to share it with others, with the world at large. You could donate it to an established national or provincial gallery, which will be very grateful but will also reserve the right to dismantle your collection and exhibit individual pieces in whatever context they choose. For people who have in- vested a huge personal stake in creating a focused collection, this is the equivalent of being drawn, quartered and eaten alive by arts bu- reaucRats. As a developer, Michael Audain is no doubt familiar with the business adage, “Go big, or go home.” He and Yoshi opted to go big; to create a museum that would maintain the integrity of a collection that represents their lifelong work together, their vision of the art of B.C., ‘Taylor Bay, Gabriola Island’ (1964, oil on canvas, 62.6 x 76.2 cm) by E.J. Hughes (The Barbeau Owen Foundation Collection)

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continued from page 7 If Thom sometimes sounds like the anonymous authors of catalogues for famous British auction houses, he must be forgiven, since precise physi- cal descriptions of art works is the core mandate of his job, and he always adds a few lines of a more personal and evaluative nature to his commentaries. Whether he has produced a definitive guide to not only the museum but to the history of art in B.C., may be a matter for loud beery debate and pos- Love in Loss c: Painting the Lovers’ Por- sible fisticuffs in artistic circles, but trait, 1991 by Attila Richard Lukacs he has done a fine job of providing a scholarly and insightful look at the core other important Mexican artists who works of the Audain Collection. were muralists. The plates from various sources, The Audain Art Museum has now Envelope of Grifﬁ n’s letter to Sabine from Granada, Spain. are invariably superb, which makes announced it will serve as the only it all the more obvious that sculptural B.C. venue for Masterworks from the works—old First Nations masks and Beaverbrook Art Gallery, opening June Griffin & Sabine return objects and newer works like one of 18 for a three-month visit. the smaller versions of ‘Killer Whale’ When one leaves this museum, it is by Bill Reid or the James Hart wall- jaw-dropping to realize there has to be t’s not quite Game of Thrones. But the success of Nick size ‘Dance Screen’—works that are a story behind the acquisition of each Bantock’s ‘cult’ series of art books, Griffin & Sabine, three-dimensional—retain much of and every magnificent work of art. their power when reduced to two di- featuring illustrated postcards and removable letters, Audain and Karasawa deserve our mensions by the camera lens, while admiration and our gratitude. has no equal in B.C. literature. Bantock’s first three the effect of originally two-dimensional 978-1-927958-49-0 I graphic works, whether by Emily Carr titles in 1991, 1992 and 1993 spent 100 weeks on The or the homo-erotic paintings of Attila John Moore regularly writes for New York Times bestseller list. Now Bantock reveals the fate of Richard Lukacs, actually seem to be BC BookWorld from Garibaldi drained of some of their emotive power the two estranged lovers, who are both artists, with The Pharos Highlands, near Squamish. in reproduction. Gate: Griffin and Sabine’s Lost Correspondence (Chronicle It should be noted that the Audain Audain Art Museum Art Museum is a much larger exhibi- / Raincoast $34.95). Griffin Moss in London vows to finally meet tion space than anticipated, big enough 4350 Blackcomb Way, Whistler Sabine Strohem who lives in the South Pacific. It’s touted as the to accommodate travelling exhibits. Hours: Mon., Wed., Sat.: 10am-5pm. To get the ball rolling, Audain and final volume in the series, in tandem with a 25th anniversary Thurs.-Fri.: 10am–9pm. Closed Tuesday. Karasawa have provided a stupendous Admission: Adults: $18; Youth edition of the first volume. 978-1-4521-5125-0 array of art from their own collection (16 and under): Free of works by Diego Rivera and three

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(above) NCE UPON A TIME, Vancouver artist Lilian Broca has now depicted the lives of three type, real or imagined. May her actions, in a Jewish city legendary, wise and fearless women—Lilith, Esther and Judith. and ours, be made of such memory that called Bethulia, will be handed down to our descen- there lived a beau- dants from age to worthy age.” tiful, young wid- By downplaying the sensational- ow named Judith The unsullied ism of the story—seduction and mur- who was mourn- der—the character of Judith has been Oing the loss of her husband, Manasseh. revered as the mother of the Hebrews, When the Assyrians threatened in Wosk’s words, “as if it was she who to overrun the city, the town fathers had given birth to all she had saved.” were unwilling to take responsibility Judith is Hebrew for Jewish woman. for defence of their city against the HEROINE Betulia in Hebrew is virginity. As de- marauders led by Holofernes. picted by Broca and articulated by So Judith rose to the occasion by no Wosk, it was Judith’s virtuous self- longer disguising her beauty. LILIAN BROCA’S HISTORY IN MOSAICS discipline that triumphed over the The elders are astounded when she excess and debauchery of Holofernes appears before them in opulent robes Shocked by the assassination, the Judith also connects on religious and as much as it was her beauty. and jewellery. Assyrians flee. feminist grounds. Judith is shown meeting the town’s “May the God of our ancestors grant Judith takes the head of Holofernes Contributor Yosef Wosk outlines elders, praying in the desert. She is not you favour,” they say, “and make your to the Temple of Jerusalem where she in chapter two the deeper meanings of a voluptuous assassin; instead she has design successful for the glory of the Is- is accorded the honours of a male the Judith story—including how Ju- a modest demeanor when she displays raelites and the exaltation of Jerusalem.” hero. Instead of accepting riches, Ju- dith can be viewed as personification her trophy. In this way, devoutness, Judith set forth for the enemy camp, dith chooses the independent life of of Israel itself. chastity, ingenuity and courage are accompanied only by her maid. a devout widow, refusing to remarry, It doesn’t matter that the city of celebrated. General Holofernes and his troops remaining childless. Bethulia never existed or that Assyri- ✫ “marvelled at her beauty, regarding ✫ ans in the story were said to be ruled by AROUND 2002, LILIAN BROCA STARTING IMPORT- the Israelites with wonder because of PAINTERS THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE DEPICTED King Nebuchadnezzar, a Babylonian. ing high quality glass from Orsoni in her, and they said to one another, ‘Who how a chaste Jewish temptress named The power of the story lies in metaphor. Venice. For her depiction of the story can despise this people who have such Judith beheaded an oppressive invader “Judith lived the rest of her long life, of Judith, Broca has opted for the Ba- women among them?’” named Holofernes to save her people 105 years, in pious integrity and digni- roque style of the seventeenth century The Assyrian soldiers left Judith un- from oblivion. fied nobility,” Wosk concludes, “she be- to better incorporate the theatrical harmed and allowed her to observe her Heroine of A Thousand Pieces: came a legend in her own time but the gestures and emotional expressions of Jewish rituals for several nights until The Judith Mosaics of Lilian Broca concept of personal happiness was as the heroine. Holofernes, intending to have her as his (Italian Cultural Centre $25) explores rare as it was foreign to her generation. The subject matter of Heroine of concubine, invited her to dine with him... and reveals how Lilian Broca’s mosaic “Happiness was contingent upon A Thousand Pieces was suggested to He intends to rape her, if necessary, cycle of seven tile works has reinter- the nation, the people, the family, deity Broca by Adolfo D. Roitman, curator but the wiley and alluring Judith suc- preted the story of Judith that was first and the dedication to duty. The book’s of the Shrine of the Book, Israel Mu- ceeds in getting him drunk. recorded around 163-142 BCE. twin engines—wrapped in drama and seum, Jerusalem, who has contributed Judith beheads Holofernes with a This mythical tale can be viewed as charged by suspense—are patriotism an introductory chapter on theological sword when he is inebriated and asleep. an amalgam of Scheherazade, Mata and piety. themes. Other contributers to the book The unsullied heroine and her maid Hari, Salome and David vs. Goliath— “May we continue to be inspired by are Sheila Campbell, Angela Clarke, hurry back to Bethulia with Holofernes’ depicting a femme fatal as a saviour the study of Judith’s exploits and the with a foreward by Rosa Graci. head in a bag. of the Jews—but the fictional story of telling of her story—mosaic and arche- 978-0-9948658-0-9

presented for the largest chronological collection of colour photographs of Bill Reid’s art From teapot pieces to date—including jewellery, paintings, serigraphs and large carvings. Martine Reid, his second wife, introduces a three-tiered clas- to war canoe sification sequence for his works: Pre-Haida (1948–1951), Haida (1951–1968) and Beyond Haida (1968–1998). The three phases in the life ✫ of Haida carver Bill Reid. MARTINE REID WAS MARRIED TO BILL REID FOR THE LAT- TER half of his life when he created most of his

EFORE HE KNEW ABOUT HIS HAIDA HERITAGE, monumental works such as The Spirit of Haida Bill Reid turned to carving ship Gwaii (also known as The Jade Canoe) at the models and miniatures at the age Vancouver International Airport and The Raven of 12. Bill Reid Collected (D&M and the First Men, both of which have been B Martine J. Reid $19.95) by reveals featured on the Canadian $20 bill. that the only surviving work from that period is a Martine Reid, Ph.D. is an independent curator tiny Victorian tea set that he made out of white who recalls that Reid was raised by his Haida chalk, coated with pink nail polish, for his younger mother, a residential school survivor who hid her sister who kept it nestled on a bed of cotton balls family’s First Nation roots. “It would take Reid a lifetime,” she writes, “to unearth what his mother in a pocket-sized matchbox. Bill Reid carving Skidegate Totem Pole, 1976 The miniature tea set is one of 126 art works had been forced to bury.” 978-1-77162-115-1

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Gnarled Love Infinite Power DANIEL G. SCOTT JANET VICKERS ISBN 978-1-77171-152-4 ISBN 978-1-77171-164-7 Poetry 102 Pages Poetry 94 pages $23.95 Tempo Rubato $23.95 LINDA ROGERS

ISBN 978-1-77171-026-8 Fiction 284 pages Spit Delaney’s Now Time / $25.95 Jetztzeit / Nunc Stans Island: The Play WALTER HILDEBRANDT CHARLES TIDLER ACK ODGINS ISBN 978-1-77171-141-8 & J H Poetry 188 pages ISBN 978-1-77171-147-0 $34.95 Drama 116 pages Disembodied $25.95 RICHARD GODWIN What Makes Floating Islands: A ISBN 978-1-77171-154-8 Writer’s Early Life Fiction 104 pages You Happy $25.95 MIKE DOYLE RUTH SIMKIN ISBN 978-1-77171-099-2 ISBN 978-1-77171-127-2 Memoir 240 Pages Fiction 138 pages $25.95 $25.95

The Spirit of the The Art of Haying Thing and the The Wind Under HAROLD RHENISCH Thing Itself Our Footsteps ISBN 978-1-77171-125-8 DIANE RÉGIMBALD D.C. REID Travel / Meditations 200 TRANS BY ANTONIO D’ALFONSO ISBN 978-1-77171-123-4 pages Poetry 92 pages ISBN 978-1-77171-143-2 $33.95 $23.95 Poetry 154 Pages $23.95 Ekstasis Editions Celebrating 33 years of fine literary publishing Ekstasis is the passport to the imagination Enter a parallel universe of the creative spirit

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11 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 The The record-breaking exhibition. BASTARD of The book everyone is talking about. WINNER of a Canadian Museums Association Award FORT STIKINE

The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin Jr.

“In dramatic, evocative prose, Komar gives McLoughlin and HBC the trial they so justly deserved.” — The Globe and Mail

with Art Gallery of Ontario and Dulwich Picture Gallery www.gooselane.com Local History Award www.gooselane.com Winner of the Jeanne Clarke Memorial

Bill Graham ... learned politics the tough way, dedicated himself to the building of a bilingual Canada, and put his ideas about global trade and international ODZWRWKHȴUHLQJRYHUQPHQW$FODVV\JX\DKDUGZRUNLQJ03DȴUVWUDWH PLQLVWHUDUHPDUNDEOH&DQDGLDQ “— Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien Good political memoirs are all too rare in Canada. In this witty, thoughtful, and SHUFHSWLYHERRN%LOO*UDKDPFRPELQHVLQVLGHUNQRZOHGJHZLWKDFRRODQDO\WLFDO approach. An enjoyable read, The Call of the World JLYHVPXFKQHHGHGLQVLJKWLQWR &DQDGLDQSROLWLFVJRYHUQPHQWDQGVRFLHW\GXULQJWKHODVWKDOIFHQWXU\ — Margaret MacMillan, author of History’s People: Personalities and the Past

The Call of the World A Political Memoir ” Bill Graham

:LWKFDQGRXUDQGZLW%LOO*UDKDPȂ&DQDGDȇVPLQLVWHURIIRUHLJQD΍DLUV and minister of defence during the tumultuous years following 9/11 – takes us on a personal journey from his Vancouver childhood to important behind-the-scenes moments in recent global history.

April 2016 | 978-0-7748-9000-7 | trade hardcover

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12 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 FOOD

ULSES IS A TERM FOR meat-replacements are created equal,” chickpeas, favas, we are told. peas, lentils and “Soy products have long been a beans. As one of the Give peas a staple of vegetarian diets, but soybeans forefathers of ecologi- are often grown in pesticide-heavy cal awareness in B.C., monocultures, processed in factories Dan Jason has roots and shipped long distances. Pand tendrils in B.C. publishing that “By contrast, pulses are easy on the go deep. And with his The Power of environment: versatile in their unpro- Pulses (D&M $24.95), co-authored cessed state, needing no refrigeration with Hilary Malone and Alison CHANCE and little packaging, and many are a Malone Eathorne, he remains on the snap to grow organically, even for new cutting edge. gardeners. Jason first broke new ground with Dan Jason’s The Power of Pulses “In addition to being easy to grow at Your Own Food (Intermedia, 1972), fol- is a guide to growing and home, millions of tonnes of pulses are lowed soon thereafter by a now-hard- commercially harvested across North to-find bestseller Some Useful Wild eating pulses, coincidental America, making them an ideal daily Plants for Nourishment and Healing food for locavores.” (Talonbooks, 1974, 1975), co-authored with the United Nations’ Vegetarian recipes include Black by Nancy Jason and Tom Perry. What Bean Brownies with Espresso Ganache; began as a project to record some ed- International Year of Pulses. Broad Bean Succotash with Fresh ible and medicinal plants of the Slocan Ricotta and Poached Eggs on Toast; and Valley grew into a larger compendium Crispy Chickpea Power Bowl with Kale, with sections about herbs of southern Quinoa & Dukkah Crunch. B.C., trees, berries, seaweeds and poi- Having enjoyed gardening since his sonous plants. childhood in Montreal, Jason gradu- It was during those post-Woodstock ated from McGill with a degree in an- early 1970s that the back-to-land thropology in 1967. Jason has since movement started getting serious in developed his own Black Jet soybean B.C. Coincidentally a young Mayne Is- variety and now specializes in seeds for lander named Vic Marks, a former edi- high-protein plants. tor of B.C. Access Catalogue, produced He has been president of the Seed a practical hippie bible for rural living, and Plant Sanctuary for Canada since Cloudburst: A Handbook of Rural Skills 2002, a national network of organic and Technology (Cloudburst Press, growers dedicated to preserving heir- 1973). We were stardust, we were loom seeds, and he has written several golden, and we had to get ourselves other books including Greening the back to the garden. Garden (New Society, 1991), a guide In 1976, Jason moved to Salt Spring to sustainable organic growing, and OLESKO Island and started to grow large gar- a children’s book, Once Upon A Time I dens. He created the mail-order seed Love You (Intermedia, 1972), illustrated

company Salt Spring Seeds in 1986, MAMGANE

by his daughter Zama.

initially selling packets of a dozen bean JAN “My biggest surprise as a seedsman varieties, as well as quinoa and ama- Dan Jason’s been popularizing beans as earth-friendly food since the 70s. was to learn just a few years ago that ranth. Jason continues to grow much Canada has become the world’s larg- of the food his family eats and he now costs of sustaining meat-based diets the risk of diabetes, heart disease and est exporter of dried peas and beans, sells more than 700 different herbs, have given rise to movements such as other chronic illness. chickpeas, favas and lentils,” he says. vegetables, beans, grains and flowers. Meatless Monday, pulses are now being Pulses are gluten-free and ideal for “Other countries love our pulses but With fifty recipes from the foodie- touted as an earth-saving substitute grind-your-own flour for non-gluten we consume less than ten percent of sister team of Hilary Malone and Alison for meat or tofu as a source of protein. breads and baking. Perhaps best of all what we cultivate. Malone Eathorne, The Power of Pulses Both Rubin’s book and the U.N. dec- for the planet, self-fertilizing pulses use “I’ve dedicated myself to popular- is an informative and inspirational laration are devoted to promoting the half the non-renewable energy of most izing beans as something we North guide to growing and eating pulses nutritional and environmental benefits other crops. Americans should be growing and eat- that coincides with the United Nations’ of pulses which are rich in fibre, high “While the ecological and health ing. In the context of climate change, International Year of Pulses. in vitamin B, and remarkably low on benefits of cutting down on meat con- beans have some very powerful things In a world where the environmental the glycemic index—helping to reduce sumption are widely known, not all to say!” 978-1-77162-102-1

Jennifer Schell Schell food in the Okanagan Faux food on the east side Literary culture vultures lost a favourite hang-out when the bohemian Bukowski’s closed on Commercial Drive in Vancouver after more aised on an apple orchard, local foodie edi- than 25 years. It was chef Andreas Seppelt’s first restaurant. It was followed by his “sweetly tor Jennifer Schell is raising the stakes iconic fish shack” called Go Fish in 2004, then for culinary standards grounded in sus- another successful eatery in 2008 called Les Faux R Bourgeois (pictured below). tainability, irrigated by local wines. The modest and playful French bistro has gar- nered critical acclaim and a loyal clientele, giving Jennifer Schell comes from a multi-generational farming family rise to Seppelt’s first book, Les Faux Bourgeois: and was raised on an apple orchard in Kelowna. Schell is an advocate Bon Vivants on the East Side (Anvil Press of eating locally-produced food and wine. $26.95). Affectionately known as Les Fauxbo, After eight years as editor at Food & Wine Trails magazine, launched the bistro also owes its origins to designer Scott in 1991 by Dave Gamble, Jennifer Schell has reissued her first book Cohen and builder Stephen Gagnon. (from 2012), The Butcher, the Baker, the Wine & Cheese Maker More than a traditional cookbook, with recipes in the Okanagan (Touchwood $29.95) with “70% new content to often tweaked by West Coast flourishes, this reflect the region’s constant evolution of food production and culture.” volume entices ‘bon vivants on the east side’ The new version provides more than 50 recipes, each written by with sidebars and stories about ingredients such an Okanagan chef and inspired by an ingredient that is locally and as cheese, charcuterie and wine. 978-1-77214-051-4 sustainably produced. “It might be free-run turkey raised on the Hamblett Highland Turkey farm, organic vegetables from the urban gardens of Green City Acres, or brie cheese from Upper Bench Cheese in the Naramata.” There’s a wine pairing for each recipe from a local Okanagan winery and short profiles on each contributor. The Butcher, Baker, Wine & Cheese Maker by the Sea (Touchwood, 2015) is a sequel to that first book. It also discovers the people and stories behind the recipes—the chefs, the fishermen, the sea farmers, the foragers and the winemakers. Schell completed the program of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET), the foremost international body in the field of wines and spirits education, studying under Rhys Pender, master of wine. 9781771511568

13 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 The Sacred Herb / The Devil’s Weed A Series of Dogs Andrew Struthers John Armstrong

Andrew Struthers, a “Canadian version of A hilarious, perceptive and moving new Hunter S. Thompson” (Vancouver Sun), memoir from the author of Guilty of expounds on the ambivalent nature of Everything and Wages. A Series of Dogs is marijuana and shares pot stories harvested about the dogs that have added texture from his own hazy memory & over 100 and meaning to Armstrong’s own journey, people from across Canada and beyond. and introduces the reader to a cast of You’ll deﬁnitely laugh and you might even some of the most memorable characters to learn something—or at least get come along in Canadian literature in some high trying.* time—all of them dogs.

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Soviet Princeton Slim Evans and the 1932–33 Miners’ Strike Twenty Seven Stings Jon Bartlett & Julie Emerson Rika Ruebsaat Illustrated by Roxanna Bikadoroff BC BOOK PRIZES FINALIST

When mine owners slashed wages in “Few will fail to be impressed and moved Princeton, B.C., the miners called in by this new collection, which comprises 17 notorious labour activist Slim Evans, who takes in verse on the multiple relationships led the newly formed union in a dramatic between women and war. ... We need months-long battle against the owners, poets like Emerson, and books like Twenty the police, the local board of trade, Seven Stings. Read this one even if you and the KKK. seldom read poetry.” — Vancouver Sun Also available as a Kobo or Kindle ebook

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June is Aboriginal History month. Here follows a round-up of new books from or about First Nations people in B.C. ABORIGINALITY INJUN-NEWITY 2004 by Anita Large after he left to pursue a Ph.D. in the Department of JORDAN ABEL’S INJUN (TALONBOOKS $16.95) IS a Educational Studies at UBC. He has long poem of ‘found text’ from western also served as Chair of the Indigenous novels of pulp fiction published between Peoples Caucus of Creator’s Rights 1840 and 1950. By gathering all the Alliance and variously contributed to sentences containing the word “injun” The Royal Commission On Aboriginal (using the ‘Find’ function), Abel seeks Peoples, Assembly Of First Nations to destabilize the colonial concept of and Committee Of Inquiry Into Indian the “Indian” as it was allowed to grow Education. in the so-called western world. Abel is a Nisga’a writer completing his Ph.D at Simon Fraser University, where his ROLL ON, WAGAMESE studies focus on digital humanities and Greg Younging AN OJIBWAY FROM THE WABASSEEMOONG indigenous poetics. 978-0-88922-977-8 First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, Richard Wagamese received the X MARKS THE XWISTEN YOUNGING RETURNS George Ryga Prize for Social Awareness FORMERLY AN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF in 2011 for One Story, One Song (D&M). Joseph A. Dandurand A XWISTEN FIRST NATIONS ELDER, CHRISTINE research for the Truth and Reconcilia- In 2012 he was chosen as a recipient Jack is one of twelve indigenous elders tion Commission of Canada, Dr. Greg of a National Aboriginal Achievement whose lives are celebrated in Wisdom Younging resumed his position as the Award (NAAA) as a representative of from our First Nations (Second Story A Place director/publisher of Theytus Books in media and communications. In 2013 $10.95) by Lyle Ernst and Kim Si- 2016. Long associated with Theytus he became the first recipient of the gafus. Born in Lytton in 1967 as her Called Books and the En’owkin Centre as an Burt Award for First Nations, Métis mother’s tenth child, she overcame administrator and editor (from 1990 and Inuit Literature for Indian Horse alcoholic parents and various fam- Kwantlen to 2004), Younging (formerly Young- (D&M). He has now received the Writ- ily tragedies, including her mother’s Ing) is a member of the Opsakwayak ers’ Trust Matt Cohen Award given in by Joseph A. Dandurand death when Christine was eight, and Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba. celebration of a body of work. He lives was raised by her aunt and uncle in He was replaced at Theytus Books in near Kamloops. It’s 7 am Lillooet. Overcoming alcohol and drugs, throw net out she became the first girl in her family easy right? to graduate from high school in 1985. Christine Jack has since worked to stop violence against women. wait’wait watch 978-1-927583-55-5 August 4th BEST SELLARS no sockeyes AFTER FORTY WEEKS ON THE BC BESTSELLERS no fish List, Bev Sellars won the 2014 George where are they? Ryga Award for Social Awareness for They Called Me Number One: Secrets this is 10 thousand and Survival at an Indian Residential years later School (Talonbooks, 2012), and was and I am also shortlisted for the Hubert Evans as we all are Non-Fiction Prize. Sellers has now re- a part leased a follow-up in which she retells of the people Canada’s history. Based on a presenta- the Kwantlen tion Sellars has often delivered to trea- most of us ty-makers, politicians, policymakers like other river tribes and educators, Price Paid: The Fight are rag tag people for First Nations Survival (Talonbooks of an ancient tribe $24.95) is a wide-ranging and candid language is gone effort to “untangle truth from some of land is gone the myths about First Nations.” Sellers fish are gone offers glimpses of foods, medicines, and empty abused mind cultural practices that North America’s of mine aboriginal peoples have contributed to the world. For more than twenty years gone. Sellars served as chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams but this is paradise Lake. Currently she serves as a mem- on this earth ber of its council. 978-0-88922-972-3 at this time for me because I have the dream of fish and it is enough to make me real in this imaginary place called Kwantlen.

— from Hear and Foretell by Joseph A. Dandurand (BookLand Press $16.95) Bev Sellars 978-1-926956-96-1 Cover art of Injun (Talonbooks $16.95) by Jordan Abel

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LANDLAND CLAIMSCLAIMS

Neil Sterritt and his family lived here at Temlaham Ranch, the site of a Gitxsan ancestral village, from 1975 to 2009.

MAPPING HISTORY sary of King George III’s proclamation in 1763 that reserved lands west of the HISTORY WILL WANT TO RECORD THAT IT WAS Appalachian Mountains for Indians Neil J. Sterritt, a member of the House

PRESS and required the Crown to purchase of Gitluudaahlxw, who served as presi- Indian land through treaties that were dent of the Gitxsan-Wet’suwet’en Tribal to be negotiated without coercion and Council from 1981 to 1987. Those were CREEKSTONE

in public. 978-0-7735-4587-8 key years leading up to the precedent- setting aboriginal rights case known as COURTESY

Delgamuukw v. B.C. . COYOTE & THE KING As one of the principal architects of

PHOTO MARGERY FEE’S LITERARY LAND CLAIMS: the 1987 court case, Sterritt was on SUN The “Indian Land Question” from the stand for 34 days during the Del- Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat (Wil- gamuukw trial, having doubled as land frid Laurier $29.24) examines how land claims director for the Gitxsan-Carrier VANCOUVER , ownership figures in the work of both Tribal Council. Indigenous and non-Indigenous writ- LINDSAY In Mapping My Way Home: A ers including John Richardson, E. Gitxsan History (Creekstone $29.95), IAN A Smithers court clerk receives the writ and statement of claim from the Pauline Johnson, Archibald Belaney Sterritt now traces the history of the Gitxsan-Wet’suwet’en Tribal Council in 1984. Filing the writ with Neil (Grey Owl), Louis Riel and B.C.’s Harry area at the junction of the Skeena and Sterritt (hands on counter) are (L-R) Misilos/Victor Jim (Moricetown), Del- Robinson. Fee’s survey from 1832 to Bulkley Rivers. He records the resil- gamuukw/Albert Tait (Kispiox) and Gisday Wa/Alfred Joseph (Hagwilget). the late 1970s begins with John Rich- iency of the First Nations residents ardson’s novels about Pontiac’s War who have maintained the villages of the Supreme Court of British Colum- tive overview of Indigenous rights law and the War of 1812 and concludes Gitanmaax and Hazelton, as well as bia, where most of the Delgamuukw and claims legislation in the United with Harry Robinson’s Okanagan sto- his own personal story of growing up trial took place,” Ray recalls, “distrust States, Canada, South Africa, Australia rytelling in which the inability and un- in Hazelton and helping his people fight prevailed… Certainly searching for nu- and New Zealand. 9780773547421 willingness of new settlers to share the the Delgamuukw court case. anced interpretations of the past is not land forces Coyote to make a deal with Stkerritt’s overview stretches from a primary goal of litigation.” the King of England. 978-1-77112-119-4 the creation tales of Wiigyet to the ad- Ray’s sense of frustration and ir- THE PROCLAMATION vent of oil and gas pipeline proposals, ritation in the witness box in the Del- JIM ALDRIDGE, QC, HAS REPRESENTED THE including tales of the Madiigam Ts’uwii gamuukw trial led him to attend most Nisga’a First Nation in treaty negotia- RECONCILIATIONS Aks (supernatural grizzly of the waters), of the subsequent court proceedings tions, mainly as lead counsel, since AWARD-WINNING B.C. AUTHOR KATHERINE the founding of Gitanmaax, Kispiox in that case. 1980, and he now assists the lawsuit Gordon was one of the three chief ne- and Hagwilget and the coming of the Ever since Ray has been active in brought by Nunavut Tunngavik Incor- gotiators for the Tsawwassen First Na- fur traders, miners, packers, mission- landmark litigation concerning treaty porated against the federal Crown for tion Final Agreement, a treaty between aries and telegraphers. rights, Aboriginal title and Métis rights, breach of the Nunavut Land Claims Canada, B.C. and Tsawwassen First Sterritt co-authored Tribal Boundar- usually as a consultant on First Na- Agreement. Nation (TFN) that legalized a transfer of ies in the Nass Watershed (UBC Press tions claims. With Terry Fenge, Aldridge has land to TFN, in 2009, also enabling TFN 1999) and received an honorary doc- Now intended to appeal to a broad now co-edited Keeping Promises: The to once more become a self-governing torate from the University of Toronto audience, Arthur J. Ray’s Aboriginal Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aborigi- First Nation. in 2008 for his “lifetime contributions Rights Claims and the Making and nal Rights, and Treaties of Canada Tsawwassen First Nation was the to the understanding and expression Remaking of History (McGill-Queen’s (McGill-Queens $34.95), a collection of first in B.C. to achieve a treaty under of aboriginal citizenship in Canada.” $29.95) is an unprecedented, compara- essays that marks the 250th anniver- the B.C. treaty process. He also served as Director of Self- Now Gordon has accepted an offer to government, Assembly of First Nations return to New Zealand to participate as in Ottawa from 1988 to 1991. Crown Chief Negotiator for the govern- He and his wife, Barbara, now live ment of New Zealand on the Treaty of near Williams Lake. 978-1-928195-02-3 Waitangi settlement negotiations with Maori, helping bring to a close some of the long-standing treaty grievances. ABORIGINAL RIGHTS During negotiations she was taken THE SUPREME COURT’S HISTORIC CALDER DECI- to the peak of Mt. Tarawera, a volcano sion on the Nisga’a community’s title of special significance to the Ngati suit launched the First Nations rights Rangitihi people with whom she is litigation era in Canada in 1973. negotiating. Arthur J. Ray’s extensive knowl- Meanwhile The Full Report of the edge in the history of the fur trade and Truth and Reconciliation Commis- Native economic history brought him sion has been published in six volumes into the courts as an expert witness in by McGill-Queen’s University Press, the mid-1980s. Katherine Gordon (centre) with her fellow negotiators atop Mt. Tarawera, “telling the truth about Canada’s In- “In Vancouver, in Courtroom 53 of site of an 1886 volcanic eruption that buried many Māori villages. digenous Peoples.” Visit www.mqup.ca

16 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 FIRST NATIONS HISTORY SMALL CHILDREN FICTION FOR NEARLY A CENTURY, FROM 1871 UNTIL EIGHTY YEARS AFTER SHE WAS RAPED IN A resi- destructive fires in the 1960s, the Tsim- dential school, an elderly, roll-your-own shian residents of the Port Essington Walking barefoot on grass. smoker and Cree painter in Saskatch- A hand to hold. Bannock baking Indian Reservation were assimilated ewan named Elinor Greystone searches in the oven. Written to support with the non-aboriginal population of the wellness of aboriginal for the child taken from her at birth with the cannery town of Port Essington, families in particular, Monique the help of her daughter and grand- located near the mouth of the Skeena Gray Smith’s board book for daughter in Tears in the Grass (Dun- River, south of Prince Rupert. Aboriginal small children, My Heart Fills durn 2016), a first novel by Lynda A. children attended day schools there With Happiness (Orca $9.95), Archer of Gabriola Island. 9781459732117 rather than a residential school. Helen illustrated by Julie Flett, ✫ encourages young people to Raptis and members of the Tsimshian HAVING TAUGHT ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL reflect on what brings First Nation have extensively recollected happiness. Monique Gray students of the Tahltan and Nuu- and examined the schooling for two gen- Smith is a mixed-heritage Chah-nulth First Nations, Jennifer erations of Tsimshian students—elders woman of Cree, Lakota Manuel has fashioned a debut novel born in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as and Scottish ancestry about a woman who has lived for forty middle-aged adults born in the 1950s and a proud mom of years on the periphery of a West Coast young twins. Having and 1960s—for What We Learned: Two First Nations community as a nurse been sober and involved in a medical outpost, gaining intimate Generations Reflect on Tsimshian in her healing journey for Education and the Day Schools (UBC more than twenty years, knowledge of local secrets. Weeks from $32.95). See below. 978-0-7748-3020-1 she published a fictionalized retirement, Bernadette hears the news ✫ memoir, Tilly: A Story of Hope over VHF radio that Chase Charlie, the MARY TASI OF SKY SPIRIT STUDIO AND HER STU- and Resilience (Sono Nis Press, young man she has loved like a son, dio partner Wade Baker, a descendant 2013). It won first prize in has gone missing. In a world “too small the Burt Award for First of three royal First Nations lineages, for secrets,” she must come to terms Nations, Métis and Inuit have co-written The Hidden Journals: Literature in 2014. Julie Flett illustration from with her loneliness in The Heaviness Captain Vancouver and his Map- 9781459809574 My Heart Fills with Happiness. of Things that Float (D&M $22.95) maker (Sky Spirit $20) in an attempt 978-1-77162-087-1 to prove there was a marriage between lustrated by artist and musician Kevin the mapmaker on HMS Discovery, Lt. YOUNG READERS POETRY Easthope, born and raised in Williams GARRY GOTTFRIEDSON COMPELS US AND Joseph Baker—namesake for Mt. Bak- A MEMBER OF THE WILLIAMS LAKE INDIAN BAND Lake, who earns his living fighting forest er—and the daughter of Chief Qeyupu- (T’exelc), Bev Sellars’ cousin Willie Heaven to listen to the challenges fires in B.C. 978-1-927575-53-6 lenuxw in 1792—and to substantiate Sellars was seven when he first went ✫ facing First Nations communities Baker’s claim to be a descendant of Lt. dipnetting with his dad and uncles. Set in Deaf Heaven (Ronsdale $15.95), ORCA CHIEF (HARBOUR $19.95), A THIRD Baker. The pair visited archives in B.C. in the Cariboo Chilcotin, his children’s incorporating Secwepemc (Shuswap) collaborative book of Northwest Coast and Maui to examine maps which they book Dipnetting with Dad (Caitlin images and stories. He speaks of “the legends featuring Roy Henry Vickers’s claim were purposefully hidden. They $16.95) is a coming-of-age story about smell of grandmothers and grandfa- illustrations and text by Robert Budd, also reference logbooks, drawings and a boy learning the Secwepemc method thers / breathing the stories into our gained two B.C. Book Prizes nomina- oral stories. Much credence is given to of fishing. First he visits a sweat lodge, blood” so as to “wrap our newborn in tions this year. It’s a story in which the contemporary memories of First then he learns how to mend nets. freshly made Star Quilts.” Wheth- four careless fishermen are taught, by Nations and Hawaiian elders. But finding the perfect fishing spot er inside the rez or in Orca Chief, to respect the oceans and The evidence for Baker’s family and packing the fish back to the lodge downtown rooming sustainably harvest their seaweed and background is far from definitive but pale in comparison to the real lessons houses, people salmon. they do provide an alternate viewpoint learned—family values, the importance take strength Orca Chief has remained on the BC as to why Captain Vancouver was dis- of storytelling and the meaning of com- from the land. Bestseller list for months. The first two credited by the Lords of the Admiralty munity living. 978-1-55380-449-9 books in the series, Raven Brings the after he returned to England in 1795. In his position as a second term band Garry Light (Harbour, 2013) and Cloudwalker Neptune Bulk Terminals and Port Metro councillor, Sellars works closely with Gottfriedson (Harbour, 2014), went on to become Vancouver have sent 1,000 copies to the Economic Development and Natural national bestsellers. North Shore high schools. 9780993843815 Resources department. Dipnetting is il- 978-1-55017-693-3 PHOTO COURTESY OF CYNTHIA BOHN

Port Essington Elementary School students (1947–48) with their teacher, Miss Olynyk. From What We Learned (UBC Press $32.95).

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RIC JAMIESON’ S Cariboo Country, starring Chief Dan much-needed The George, had some of his Vancouver Sun Native Voice: articles reproduced in The Native Voice. The Story of How A FAR CRY FROM When St. Pierre worked for the Maisie Hurley and Vancouver News Herald, he and Maisie Canada’s First Ab- dreamed up a spoof that had Chief Wil- original Newspaper liam Scow become premier and take Changed a Nation THE GLOBE & MAIL over B.C. “from the whites.” E (Caitlin $24.95), recounts how Haida elder Alfred ✫ Adams, the founding president of the WILL ROGERS, THE AMERICAN HUMORIST, WHO Native Brotherhood of British Columbia THE NATIVE VOICE NEWSPAPER MADE SURE was part Cherokee, once wrote to (NBBC), implored Welsh-born Maisie Maisie in response to her sending him Hurley to carry on his work when he “NATIVES” OF B.C. COULD NOT BE SILENCED. a couple of issues of The Native Voice. was dying of cancer in 1945. He said; “It is by long odds the largest With $150 of her own money, Hurley Indian publication I have seen. We have started The Native Voice newspaper as Other significant contributors were: whose story in The Native Voice in the nothing as good in the country.” a catalyst for change, having already Chief William Scow, president of June and July 1948 issues was the ba- Buffy Sainte-Marie, who wrote the been a volunteer advocate for First Na- the NBBC. sis for Evans’ important novel, Mist on anti-war anthem Universal Soldier, tions clients in court even though she Alfred Scow (son of William), a busi- the River (1954), about First Nations on wrote an article in The Native Voice did not have a law degree. ness agent for the NBBC who became the Skeena River. His great novel was in 1964 titled, “A Fresh Look at ‘Real- Hurley continued to serve as the a provincial court judge. written after he became friends with ity.’” It was written in response to a unpaid publisher for The Native Voice Harold Sinclair, from Skeena, a Guy Williams who urged Evans and his 1963 article in The Native Voice by after it became the official newspaper vice president of NBBC and an expert Quaker wife to come north as teachers. Alvin S. Kelsey in which he stated; of the NBBC. The Native Voice was in- on fishing issues. Prince Ruper alderman Dr. R. “The problem of the Indian is that he FAMILY

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tegral to the post-war fight for the right The Native Voice founder Maisie Hurley with Chief August Jack Kahtsahla- doesn’t face reality.” of First Nations people to vote provin- no. Although not a lawyer, Hurley also represented First Nations in court. Buffy Sainte-Marie responded: cially (in 1949) and federally (in 1960). “I have heard this tricky two-edged For her dedication to improve the lives Guy Williams, probably the closest G. Large, author of Skeena, River of phrase countless times. Now I want to of “my people,” Hurley was honoured to Maisie of all the NBBC presidents. Destiny, and Rich Hobson, who wrote tell you what I think about facing reality through naming ceremonies in the Constance Cox, from Hazelton, who the Cariboo classics Grass Beyond and being an Indian.” Skeena, Squamish/North Vancouver was Maisie’s interpreter whenever she the Mountains, Nothing Too Good for a She went on to write; “In the first and Comox areas. travelled north. Cowboy and The Rancher Takes a Wife, place, I do not believe there is such a Most importantly, First Nations Senator James Gladstone, the first contributed to the The Native Voice. thing as ‘the Indian.’” She wrote that leaders used The Native Voice as a First Nations individual to be appointed Paul St. Pierre, who wrote Smith’s she knew Crees, Apaches, Tsimshian platform for justice. to the Senate. Quarter Horse and the CBC TV series etc. etc. etc. but the individuals who “It was a paper intended to be writ- Maisie’s husband, Thomas F. Hur- “make up these tribes are as differ- ten for First Nations by First Nations,” ley, considered the dean of criminal ent from one another as salt is from says Eric Jamieson, “and so the vast law in Vancouver. sugar.” majority of the writers, besides Maisie, Thomas Hurley’s protégé, Thomas When Eric Jamieson recently con- who wrote an amazing amount of copy, R. Berger became champion for First tacted her, Sainte-Marie advised that were First Nations.” Nations in the courts. although she didn’t know Maisie well, All leaders of the NBBC wrote for Frank Howard, NDP MP for Skeena, “…The Native Voice was one of the few The Native Voice at various times. who constantly launched private mem- magazines of excellence around at These included the Reverend Dr. bers bills to grant First Nations the the time who (sic) focussed on Native Peter Kelly (probably the most pro- federal franchise, to remove barriers to American people and issues.” lific writer), from Masset, who was the alcohol, and to amend the Indian Act. In terms of the evolution of political Legislative Chair of the Native Brother- NDP MLA for Atlin, Frank Calder, and civil rights for First Nations in B.C., hood of B.C.” was the first status Indian to be elected it was The Native Voice that got the ball There was also Andrew Paull, from to any legislature in Canada. rolling in the modern era. Squamish, who called himself a “lawyer Maisie also introduced a young ✫ without a ticket,” because he was not Six Nations man to her readers by the ERIC JAMIESON’S STORY OF THE COLLAPSE OF able to practice law in the traditional name of Jay Silverheels who played the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge in sense. He went on to have a noteworthy Tonto on the popular television series, Vancouver, Tragedy At Second Nar- career defending First Nations causes The Lone Ranger. rows (Harbour), won the Lieutenant and according to Maisie, “could quote B.C. authors who wrote for The Governor’s Medal for History in 2009. cases chapter and verse.” Native Voice included Hubert Evans Buffy Sainte-Marie 978-1-987915-17-4

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20 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 BOOK PRIZES JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG An internationally-sought speaker for and about indigenous cultures, Jeannette Armstrong, Ph.D, grew up in rustic circumstances. This year she becomes the first First Nations recipient of the Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding literary career in B.C. PHOTO

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S WELL AS BEING A GIFTED AN INVITATION writer, Jeannette Arm- REVERING strong has contributed The public is welcome to hear Jeannette Armstrong WATER & SALMON countless hours as an speak when she receives the $5,000 George Woodcock educator, spokesperson When Jeannette Armstrong was a Aand organizer for the enhancement of Lifetime Achievement Award at the Vancouver Public Li- child, she witnessed one of the last indigenous cultures, making her the brary’s main branch on June 29th at 7 p.m. It’s a free large salmon harvests on her peo- most integral, contemporary figure in event. A permanent plaque honouring Armstrong will be ple’s land in the Okanagan. She has the growing constellation of aboriginal referred to her mother as “a river authors of B.C. installed in the library’s Woodcock Walk of Fame. Indian,” someone who was deeply ✫ connected to the traditional fisher- JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG GREW UP HEARING Maracle’s earlier Bobbi Lee, Indian book is Native Creative Process (1991), ies of the Columbia River system. stories about her mother’s great aunt, Rebel (1975), as a synthesis of autobi- in collaboration with aboriginal archi- Consequently the loss of the salmon the novelist Mourning Dove, who lived ography and fiction, provides grounds tect Douglas Cardinal. She has edited, run for her people has resulted, for briefly in Oliver, B.C., and who also for disputing that claim. contributed to, and written numerous her, in “the deepest possible grief.” taught Armstrong’s mother in school. In 1989, Jeannette Armstrong other works, including poetry. Revering water and salmon as Mourning Dove, who died in 1936, oversaw the creation of the En’owkin A documentary film portrait, Jean- inseparable, she pledged in 1998 twelve years before Armstrong was International School of Writing for nette Armstrong: Knowledge-Keeper, to “forge something new, a new born on the Penticton Indian Reserva- Native Students in conjunction with was produced by A.R.T. BookWorld course chosen for the right reasons. tion in 1948, wrote Cogewea, the Half- Theytus Books, Okanagan College Productions and premiered on CBC A course insuring the preservation Blood (1927), possibly the first novel to and the University of Victoria’s Bach- in 1995. of the precious gifts of life to each be written by an American aboriginal elor of Fine Arts Program. Situated in Fluent in the Okanagan language, of us and our generations to come woman. downtown Penticton, it became a focal Armstrong has participated in interna- as true caretakers of these lands.” “Reading her stories had a great point for aboriginal writing throughout tional conferences around the world. influence on me,” Armstrong says. North America. The school has since She received the Mungo Martin Me- “And I was really fortunate to have two re-located to Green Mountain Road on morial Award in 1974, the Helen Pitt grandmothers alive until I was well into the Penticton Indian Reserve. Award in 1978, an Honorary Doctorate my 20s.” Theytus Books, a First Nations- of Letters from St. Thomas University In addition to Mourning Dove, owned-and-operated book publishing in New Brunswick in 2000 and the Armstrong was influenced by the ca- company, also migrated to Penticton in 2003 EcoTrust Buffet Award for Indig- dence of Pauline Johnson’s poetry, the mid-1980s. Started by Randy Fred enous Leadership. She was appointed the mentoring of Okanagan storyteller in Nanaimo, Theytus Books is named one of seven indigenous judges to the Harry Robinson and the proximity of for a Salish word meaning “preserving First Nations Court of Justice called by Summerland-based playwright and for the sake of handing down.” The the Chiefs of Ontario. She received an novelist George Ryga who provided an word En’owkin is an Okanagan con- Honorary Doctorate of Laws from UBC Cover art of River of Salmon introduction to Armstrong’s first novel ceptual metaphor “which describes a Okanagan in 2006. Peoples (Theytus Books). Slash (1985). Reprinted more than ten process of clarification, conflict reso- As an assistant professor of Indig- times and adopted for use in schools, lution and group commitment. With a enous Studies in the Irving K. Barber As a result, Jeannette Armstrong Slash recalls First Nations alienation focus on coming to the best solutions School of Arts and Sciences at UBC’s has co-edited River of Salmon and militancy during the period from possible through respectful dialogue, Okanagan campus in 2013, Armstrong Peoples (Theytus Books $32.95) 1960 to 1983. Despite ridicule from literally through consensus.” Theytus was appointed a Canada Research with Gerry William for and about some friends, the protagonist Thomas Books and aboriginal-owned Pemmi- Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Phi- the indigenous cultures along the Kelasket, nicknamed Slash due to a can Books in Winnipeg, created by the losophy, an award of $100,000 for five Fraser River, focussing on its most criminal incident, enjoys speaking the Manitoba Métis Federation, were both years to research, document, catego- valuable resource, the salmon. Okanagan language and attending pow- started in 1980. rize and analyze Okanagan Syilx oral Nine communities were consulted wows. Eventually he is forced to con- Armstrong’s best-known non-fiction language literature. over a two-year period to gather front racism in a white-operated school. research, photographs and artwork Sometimes angry and confused, he Since 1995, the City of Vancouver (Mayor of Vancouver’s office), the Vancouver Public Library that complement the oral narratives travels widely in North America to come and Pacific BookWorld News Society have worked in partnership to present an annual prize to a of each community and the book’s to terms with himself and the world. B.C. author for outstanding and enduring contributions to B.C. society. Each year the mayor of exploration of the environmental Vancouver proclaims BC Author Achievement Day in honour of the new recipient. The Writers Slash was promoted in the Theytus Trust of Canada and Yosef Wosk have contributed sponsorship since 2009. For more informa- challenges now facing the waterway Books catalogue as the first adult novel tion about The George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award, contact 604-736-4011. and its contents. 978-1-926886-41-1 by a Canadian aboriginal woman. Lee Or visit www.bcbookawards.ca

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HE BC BOOK PRIZES WERE ESTABLISHED IN 1985 TO celebrate the achievements of British Co- Tlumbia writers and publishers. This year’s gala at Government House was emceed by CBC broadcaster Gregor Craigie and attended by the Honourable Judith Guichon, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. “It’s a dream to be here,” said Alix Hawley, winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for All True Not a Lie in It (Knopf), a novel about Daniel Boone. She thanked her editor Anne Collins, her agent Denise Bukowski and “also my mom, who introduced me to Ethel Wilson many years ago.” She added, “Let’s party like it’s 1969.” But this years’ bun-toss, at $120 per ticket, was devoid of any raucous behavior. “This is a strange and surreal and nerve-wrack- ing thing,” said newcomer Raoul Fernandes, the surprised winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for his first book, Transmitter and Receiver (Nightwood Editions), “for someone who normally sits in a room and writes poetry.” He thanked event Left to right: organizers for his pre-event reading tour, SFU Raoul Fernandes, Writers Studio and Nightwood Editions for taking Alix Hawley, a chance on a debut writer. Annette LeBox, “I’m hugely honoured,” said Susan Juby, winner Susan Juby of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize for The Truth Commission (Razorbill). “I feel like every- All photos by Monica Miller. one needs to drink a lot of wine,” she said, “and get in that [swimming] pool.” She concluded, “We are blessed in this province with all this talent, and with all the title, as was the case again this year for Peace is an Offering people who make publishing in this province so exciting.” Like (Dial Books, Penguin), illustrated by Stephanie Graegin. It was Fernandes, she said she hadn’t prepared a speech. accepted by the B.C.-based author of the text, Annette LeBox. The book prize winner who most rose to the occasion was Two winners were unable to attend. In absentia, Brian Brett Briony Penn whose The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian of Salt Spring Island won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize McTaggart Cowan (Rocky Mountain Books) won the Roderick for his second memoir, Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and a Scat- Haig-Brown Regional Prize for the book that contributes most to tershot World (Greystone Books). It was accepted for him by his the enjoyment and understanding of British Columbia. It’s touted editor, Nancy Flight. as the first official biography of “the father of Canadian ecology,” Susan Musgrave and Whitecap Books won the Bill Duthie Ian McTaggart Cowan (1910–2010), a UBC-based scientist who, Booksellers’ Choice Award for A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food as a popularizer of science, was the forerunner of David Suzuki. Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World. This dual award “Many of you won’t know who Ian McTaggart Cowan is,” Penn annually goes to the originating publisher and the author(s) of the said. “He lived so long that he outlived most British Columbians. best book in terms of public appeal, initiative, design, production, He’s the most famous British Columbian that some people have and content. Musgrave couldn’t make it; nobody from Whitecap never heard of… I hope I’ve achieved just an inkling of Ian’s showed up either. fascination and enthusiasm for this most incredible province.” Presented for an outstanding body of work, the Lieutenant Half the time the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Litera- Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence went to Alan Twigg, ture Prize for best illustrated book goes to a non-B.C.-published author of seventeen books and publisher of BC BookWorld.

Alan Twigg with Lieutenant Governor Nominees Lori Shenher (Evans Prize), Miranda Pearson (Livesay Prize) Judith Guichon. and Ali Blythe (Livesay Prize). Government House is the official residence of the Lieutenant Governor and the ceremonial home of all British Columbians.

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$18 • 978-1-77214-015-6 little comfort to the many people who and Asian Religion at University Col- are struggling to afford a place to live, lege of the Fraser Valley) and author anvilpress.com coping with high debt payments and George Johnson (professor of English DISTRIBUTED BY RAINCOAST receiving stagnating wages. at Thompson Rivers University, and a “Both Justin Trudeau’s 2015 fed- long-time chair of the Global and Com- eral election win in Canada and the munity Action Committee at Kamloops success of Bernie Sanders’ campaign United Church). in the United States have made it clear Supported by Yosef Wosk and Van- Congratulations to the that a large number of voters in both couver Public Library, the Ryga Award countries are looking for a fairer deal. is administered by Pacific BookWorld 2015 BCHF Historical Writing Winners “B.C. politicians should be paying News Society. close attention to the trend and mak- ✫ The Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing and First Prize, $2500 ing their pitches to voters in the 2017 INSPIRED BY SUMMERLAND PLAYWRIGHT The BC Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical provincial election accordingly.” George Ryga, the first annual Marginal Writing is awarded together with $2,500 to the author In A Better Place on Earth, MacLeod Arts Festival will be held at venues ZKRVHERRNPDNHVWKHPRVWVLJQLǌFDQWFRQWULEXWLRQWR the historical literature of British Columbia. interviews economists, politicians, throughout Summerland on the Labour Ronald A. Greene policy-makers and activists, as well as Day long weekend, September 1-4. One Carlo Gentile, Gold Rush Photographer, 1863-1866 “those living on the edge” to illustrate headliner will be Ryga’s eldest son, Greene Frogge Press the consequences of increasing mon- Campbell Ryga, an internationally- Second prize, $1500 etary inequality in B.C. known jazz musician who apprenticed Ralph Drew MacLeod grew up in Toronto and with the legendary Miles Davis sideman Ferries & Fjords: The History of Indian Arm came to B.C. in 1991. While obtaining George Coleman. See marginalarts.ca Third prize, $500 an English degree from the University Also, George Ryga’s sister, Anne &KULVWLQH'LFNLQVRQ'HERUDK*ULǎWKV-XG\+DJHQ &DWKHULQH6LED of Victoria, MacLeod was a co-editor Chudyk, along with her husband Ted Watershed Moments: A Pictorial History of Courtenay and District of the UVic student newspaper The Harbour Publishing Chudyk, have established two annual Martlet in 1992-93. Later he was a staff $1,000 Anne & Ted Chudyk Memorial See full list of winners and photos British Columbia news writer for Monday Magazine from Awards in Memory of George Ryga for at www.bchistory.ca Historical Federation 2002 to 2007. 978-1-55017-704-6 fulltime Okanagan College students ✫ interested in creating awareness of RUNNERS-UP FOR THIS YEAR’S RYGA AWARD: social issues.

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ICE BLINK Navigating Northern Environmental History

Edited by: Stephen Bocking and Brad Martin

ICE BLINK: ANIMAL METROPOLIS: BORDER FLOWS: A Century Navigating Northern Histories of Human-Animal of the Canadian-American Environmental History Relations in Urban Canada Water Relationship STEPHEN BOCKING JOANNA DEAN, DARCY INGRAM, LYNNE HEASLEY & DANIEL MACFARLANE , eds. & BRAD MARTIN, eds. & CHRISTABELLE SETHNA, eds. 978-1-55238-854-9 978-1-55238-864-8 978-1-55238-895-2 Logical from U Calgary Press

OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL TITLES FORTHCOMING FROM UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY PRESS:

VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION TO DROUGHT: The Canadian Prairies and South America HARRY DIAZ, JIM WARREN & MARGOT HURLBERT, eds. ISBN 978-1-55238-819-8

VASCULAR PLANTS OF ALBERTA, PART 1: Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnosperms, and Monocots JOHN G. PACKER & A. JOYCE GOULD ISBN 978-1-55238-682-8

University of Calgary Press press.ucalgary.ca

25 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 review BIOGRAPHY

Shane McCune responds to Judi Tyabji’s serviceable and affectionate biography of B.C.’s ﬁ rst elected female premier, Christy Clark.

Christy Clark at the 2016 Vaisakhi Day festivities in Surrey.

ChristyCLARK Clark: Behind the Smile Did she ever. Each chap- eral strategist Mark Marissen, impression was “a bit of a party and composition and sparking CLARKby Judi Tyabji ’S’S DRIVEDRIVE ter begins with a quotation here she is agreeing to run for girl (who) smoked a lot, partied a legal battle that is awaiting a (Heritage House $32.95) chosen by Clark from one office. It all flows together with hard and worked hard.” hearing in the Supreme Court of her favourite books, The a certain inevitability. ✫ of Canada. This is glossed SHANE McCUNE Road to Character by David I say “mostly chronological” NO BIO OF CLARK WOULD BE COM- over. BY Brooks. The pre-publication because Tyabji occasionally plete without a look at the Clark’s enthusiastic em- HERE ARE TWO KINDS draft I was given to review was wanders down a byway, such sexism she has weathered, brace of liquefied natural gas of biographies of accompanied by a welter of as a short and puzzling chap- and Tyabji, to her credit, ad- as a cure-all for B.C. economic living persons: photographs of Premier Clark, ter about the legislative press dresses her husband Gordon woes also escapes close scru- authorized and from childhood to present day gallery, which serves mainly Wilson’s ill-considered refer- tiny, even as world demand unauthorized. — most of them credited either as a hat-tip to Global TV’s ence to brooms as Clark’s and prices tumble. TUnauthorized biographies, to Christy Clark herself or the Keith Baldrey, and the Van- vehicle of choice. But should One of Clark’s sharpest po- while not necessarily negative, government of B.C. They are couver Sun’s Vaughn Palmer. that chapter include 12—12! litical shivs was directed at for- tend to include facts and rely unrelievedly bland. What you won’t find is any —pages of an essay from a mer cabinet colleague George on sources the subject might Of the three dozen or so deep analysis of Clark’s politi- retired Halifax psychologist Abbott, who ran against her not like. people Tyabji thanks for in- cal philosophy. In fact, on the whom Tyabji encountered on for the party leadership. She Conversely, authorized bi- terviews or “input,” at least a evidence presented, Marissen social media? bounced him as treaty com- ographies, while not necessar- third have some connection to was the policy wonk in the Of Clark’s 2001 cabinet missioner two weeks before he ily puff pieces, tend to avoid the Liberal Party, either pro- family while Clark concerned debut, Tyabji writes: “Christy was due to take the job. Tyabji such facts and sources. vincial or federal. I recognized herself with campaigning and Clark, as education minis- mounts a barely coherent de- What, then, to call Christy only two with outright NDP inspiring the troops. ter, changed policies to help fence of this. Clark: Behind the Smile? In affiliations, but there may be Nor will you find many working mothers and moved And yet, that same chapter, her introduction, Judi Tyabji a few more. pithy quotes from friend or forward with an agenda to dealing with Clark’s relation- insists it is not an authorized In short, this is an affection- foe. This may be due to Ty- change the education system ship to First Nations is one of biography. She decided to ate profile. Once you accept abji’s practice of conducting to expand the role of parents the best in the book, benefiting write it whether Clark co-op- that, Tyabji’s book is a service- interviews by email, then and introduce a rating system, from Tyabji’s interviews with erated or not, had the contract able, mostly chronological ac- letting interviewees vet the which was not something wel- a dozen or more First Nations with Heritage House in hand count of Clark’s rise from cam- results—not the likeliest route comed by the BCTF,” Tyabji and Métis leaders. before speaking to the premier, pus political junkie to premier. to spontaneity. writes. 9781772031065 and did not provide Clark with Here are childhood friends The liveliest description Um, yes . . . but she also a draft copy of the book. recalling a confident and out- of Clark as a political rookie tore up a legal contract, strip- Former Province columnist “To my relief, she agreed to going girl, here she is meeting comes from press gallery vet- ping the teachers’ union of its and editor Shane McCune co-operate.” future hubby and federal Lib- eran Keith Baldrey, whose first right to bargain on class size writes clearly from Comox.

How Festive the Ambulance Wigford Rememberies The Red Files How to be Eaten by a Lion Surviving City Hall KIM FU KYP HARNESS LISA BIRD-WILSON MICHAEL JOHNSON DONNA MACDONALD Fu alternates between incisive “This is a fantastic book. Please Reﬂecting on residential schools, Poems focusing on moments both With humour and humanity, wit and dark beauty. read it.” —Tony Burgess. these poems assemble scraps of a declining and revenant. Macdonald reveals the workings of POEMS. $18.95 FICTION. $19.95 history. POEMS. $18.95 POEMS. $18.95 municipal government. MEMOIR. $22.95

26 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 review NON-FICTION “AT THE TIME OF MY OWN CHOOSING.” As Parliament considers Bill C-14, Gary Bauslaugh’s poignant stories make us ask: How do I want to die?

The Right to Die:The Courageous ing assisted dying litigation launched Canadians Who Gave Us The Right To by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, A Digniﬁ ed Death by Gary Bauslaugh believes the new law will be too narrow KAT’S (Lorimer $29.95) and restrictive. Lee Carter’s mother travelled to Switzerland to legally end CATALOGUE HE HEART-WRENCHING STORIES her life but she would not have quali- A self-described country girl at heart, Kat Rose prefers that Gary Bauslaugh tells fied for medical assistance in Canada a non-urban lifestyle that includes her dog and her in The Right to Die: The under the proposed new law. horse, baking and reading. She took creative writing at Courageous Canadians The Canadian Medical Association university and now makes her living in the health care Who Gave Us The Right believes the bill strikes the proper field. Her novels stress the importance of hard work TTo A Dignified Death, begin with the balance, restricting access for minors, and perseverence. In The Loss, a 25-year-old dreamer, Ramberg case in 1941. people with mental disabilities and Ryleigh Carter, struggles to maintain a positive atti- That was when parents of a toddler those whose deaths are not imminent. tude after the break-up of a romance. Building It Up living with a painful, incurable tumour Gary Bauslaugh, a former Humanist recounts how two friends, Jensen Owens and Autumn “connected the exhaust pipe from Association of Canada president, ably Miller, must learn to cope in the aftermath of a tragedy. their vehicle into the bedroom where recalls the stark, painful circumstances A Father’s Daughter describes the protagonist’s dutiful the child’s crib was and turned on the people have faced in the fight for as- need to help her younger sister who is forced to live with ignition.” The boy died and his parents sisted dying—from Sue Rodriguez to their estranged father Jack. stood trial for murder, facing a possible Kay Carter and Gloria Taylor. The death sentence. book inevitably includes lawyers Chris The Loss (Createspace / Red Tuque 2015) 978-1515174868 $13.99, 251 pages, 6x9 The jury took ten minutes to find Considine and Joe Arvay, civil liber- Building It Up (Createspace / Red Tuque 2015) them both not guilty, nullifying the ties advocate John Dixon and ethicist/ 978-1517061401 $12.99, 219 pages, 6x9 existing law and sending a powerful philosopher Eike Henner Kluge. A Father’s Daughter (Createspace / Red Tuque 2016) message about the limitations of the Bauslaugh also details the efforts law around mercy killing. of B.C. activist John Hofsess and his This reluctance to find defendants Right to Die Society. Hofsess began http://kat-rose-c1r1.squarespace.com/artists guilty of murder has occurred in nu- thinking about a more dignified death merous instances. when his filmmaker friend Claude The high profile case of farmer John Jutras jumped from the Jacques Latimer, who killed his severely dis- Cartier Bridge in Montreal after facing WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA ★ WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA ★ WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA ★ WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA abled daughter Tracy with carbon mon- early onset Alzheimer’s. ★ ★ oxide, is more complicated. “Hofsess felt guilty for CARESSING HEAR ME Involuntary euthanasia is not doing more to help his MYTHS OUT murder in the eyes of pros- friend,” Bauslaugh writes, Poems by ecutors and advocates for “backing away from help- Poems by Dina Tzoutzi people with disabilities, who ing him die partly because Georgantopoulos Mantzourani argue such killings devalue it was difficult to let go Translated by Translated by the lives of the disabled and of his friend, and partly Manolis Manolis are open to abuse. Latimer MARK because he feared pros- $20 was convicted of second FORSYTHE ecution. Never again, he $20 degree murder, served ten vowed, would he let that ISBN: 9781926763378 ISBN: 9781926763408 years in prison and became the subject happen again.” of a book by Bauslaugh. (The author When Hofsess moved to Victoria also helped Latimer get a job as an and learned of an elderly couple who CHTHONIAN electrician.) jumped from their balcony, he thought BODIES Bauslaugh thinks the Latimer case there must be a better way to end lives. and ruling set back the cause for “com- Hofsess created an underground rail- passionate assistance in ending of life.” road to assist people with the decision Poems by Many Canadians were conflicted by this to take their own lives by providing Manolis case, at a time when countries like the information, so called “Exit Bags” and, Paintings by Netherlands and Belgium were opening on occasion, direct assistance. Ken Kirkby up new options for assisted suicide and This continued until one of his col- euthanasia. leagues, Evelyn Martens, began to Overall, Gary Bauslaugh examines operate on her own and went to trial. ISBN: 9781926763408 40 cases of assisted dying—many of Bauslaugh documents the twists and which involve right-to-die advocates turns of Martens’ trial, which he at- $48 in B.C. tended in 2004, at the end of which HOURS In 2015, the Supreme Court unani- she was found not guilty. OF mously struck down the ban on medi- It was the Gloria Taylor/Lee Carter THE STARS cally assisted dying, ruling that the law B.C. Civil Liberties challenge that ulti- was unconstitutional and breached mately changed the law. Suffering from EROTOKRITOS Poetry by the Charter. This was the provision ALS, lead plaintiff Taylor wrote: “I do [FOR COLLECTORS OF RARE BOOKS] Dimitris Liantinis Sue Rodriguez challenged. According not want my life to end violently. I do Poetry by Vitsentzos Kornaros. Transcribed by Manolis Translated by to polls, the highest court got it right. not want my mode of death to be trau- ISBN: 9781926763361 Manolis A majority of Canadians now support matic for family members. I want the death with dignity. legal right to die peacefully, at the time $20 The new federal government was of my own choosing, in the embrace of ISBN: 9781926763415 given an extra six months to craft a law family and friends.” that balances civil rights and the need Taylor was granted an exemption to protect the most vulnerable. Bill C14 to seek doctor-assisted suicide by the will now provide support to consenting B.C. courts, but didn’t use the exemp- LIBROS LIBERTAD adults with “grievous and irremediable” tion as she died from a sudden, serious CANADA'S TRULY INDEPENDENT $20 $18 medical conditions that are incurable infection at the age of 64. 9781459411166 PUBLISHER and intolerable. ISBN: 9781926763439 ISBN: 9781926763385 Lee Carter, whose mother Kay Mark Forsythe is a former CBC radio WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA ★ WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA ★ WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA ★ WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA Carter was central to the groundbreak- host and has written four books.

27 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 reviews FICTION

Claudia Casper’s The Mercy Journals them into artificial, manufactured things. Trees are no longer cut down, and paper and pens are unavail- is a post-apocalyptic novel about life able in the new world order, policed by The Green Planet Brigade and vigilantes. Luckily, Allen finds two blank notebooks and some after a third world war has been pencils among his mother’s remains. He hopes that writing a diary waged due to a will pry loose the death grip of memories on his mind. And there is another element in his healing process—a vital sexual relationship. water crisis. Allen appears to be on the way to recovery until he discovers One of the few that intimacy precludes secrecy and he can’t avoid confiding the enormity of his guilt to his lover. His confession precipitates a crisis, survivors, Allen alienating her and reviving his despair. Even the act of writing, formerly therapeutic, becomes repellent JOAN Quincy, is an ex-sol- when applied to the atrocities in his past. He concludes that describ- dier nicknamed Mercy ing the agonies of helpless and desperate people is a violation of their GIVNER most private moments, a form of pornographic voyeurism. In another who has participated in powerful image he compares it to a death-camp guard’s demand for a striptease performance before sending a victim to her death. a genocide on the Mexican border. “Salvation comes in many ways,” Allen writes in his diary, He goes on a long journey to and for him it is the reappearance of his brother and nephew and the prospect of finding his lost sons ﬁ nd his children. Here is that once again revives his will to live. Joan Givner’s review. The second half of the novel is more subdued in tone, and framed in references to ancient myths. With his newfound relatives, he travels to the family’s cabin in a remote northern cor- The Mercy Journals by ner of Vancouver Island, hoping that his sons Claudia Casper (Arsenal Pulp $17.95) might have made their way there. Although the cabin is named Nirvana, it is echoes of the Old Testament that predominate. Life on LAUDIA CASPER’S NEW the island starts out as a kind of Eden, in novel adds to a grow- which they live simply, tilling the soil and ing body of work des- living off the land. A young woman, already ignated as “cli-fi,” a C there, adds to the sense of a new beginning genre distinct from because, in violation of the one-child law, sci-fi and fantasy, because the she is about to give birth. horrors described are not futuristic fantasies but predictions of a certain future. Fans of Casper’s highly successful first novel, The Recon- struction, will find The Mercy Journals darker and more com- TRUMP’S plex. TRUMP’S Both explore what it means to become fully human and, specifically, the part played by memory in that process. In the earlier novel, Casper WALL FORETOLD focuses on the memory of humans’ evolutionary past. Her main character, a sculptor, reconstructs Although Allen sustains new inju- her shattered life as she assembles an ries, inflicted by a predatory cougar, anatomical replica of the primate, Lucy, the wounds, can be viewed as fortu- for an anthropological museum. “We want itous. His three companions tend visitors to connect themselves to the history to him protectively, and Allen, in of their bodies,” says her supervisor. turn, rather than hating the beast In The Mercy Journals Casper’s focus becomes protective of the cougar and shifts from the distant past to the future; her cubs. memory is not a benign but rather a crip- Echoes of the book of Genesis, and pling force. especially the references to the story The year is 2047; climate change, “a threat of Cain and Abel, give the violent cli- multiplier,” has spawned hundreds of global mactic events in The Mercy Journals catastrophes—floods, fires, food shortages, a sense of inevitability. “Were we ever new diseases, war and genocide. going to act differently?” Allen asks We meet Allen Levy Quincy, a veteran of rhetorically when he contemplates the the Third World War and an amputee, who global devastation. It appears humans lives amid the remnants of a ruined world. Most are programmed to cause universal of his family has disappeared or perished in the destruction. big die-off. It is Quincy’s psychic wound rather The ending is rich in moral ambiguity than the lost limb that threatens to destroy him. and irony arising from Allen’s statement He carries a heavy burden of guilt for his part in an that, although bearing the mark of Cain, atrocity—the genocidal slaughter of migrants who he has survived. were trying to breach the wall that was built between A theme throughout is the healing Mexico and the United States. potential, the morality, the danger Can there ever be forgiveness for such cruelty? and the power of writing. Alone on the Casper’s study of humanity involves a comparative island, Allen finds a different method look at non-human behaviour. In the first half of the of writing; he laboriously chisels in novel she describes Allen finding solace in observing three stone a message to the world, using beautiful goldfish he keeps in a tank (an illegal posses- an omniscient voice and cadences sion since pets are forbidden). His pleasure sours when reminiscent of the Bible. he sees the two healthy, well-fed fish tormenting a sick In the beginning was the Word, and dying one by taking bites out of its flesh. This image and it seems that after all the of gratuitous savagery resonates throughout the book, a destruction, devastation, and possible commentary on both species. death, it is the word that will PHOTO

As he sinks into a suicidal stupor of drugs and alcohol, endure. 978-1-55152-633-1 Allen stumbles on a way to obliterate his nightmares. On his mobile, he learns of the idea, attributed to Socrates,

WABAER Joan Givner reviews that writing weakens the mind by making people cease to from Victoria.

exercise memory. It also falsifies inner processes, turning ALEX

28 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 Salt Chuck Stories from Vancouver Island’s West Coast by Eleanor Witton Hancock

uring the early Eva Benjamin and the D 1980s, Eleanor Zeballos gold boom, and Hancock interviewed the highballing Gibson 120 people about the pio- Brothers who logged neers at Nootka Sound, airplane spruce at Zebal- Zeballos and Kyuquot, los back in the days when publishing several articles a house of prostitution about old-timers in the Eleanor Hancock openly operated between Times-Colonist, the Jour- the town and the mines. nal of the BC Historical Federation, Born in Viking, Alberta in 1942, the Seniors Review and the Bank of Eleanor Hancock grew up in Zebal- British Columbia’s Pioneer News. los from age three onwards, in a Now her Salt Chuck Stories general store business purchased by from Vancouver Island’s West her grandfather in 1939. Coast recalls the 1920s to 1940s She later settled in Kamloops. when the area opened up through Hardly the Klondike—the 1938 fishing, trapping, logging and min- Zeballos Gold Boom is her work-in- ing as seen through the experiences progress, the story of Canada’s last of five pioneers. Characters include significant gold rush.

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Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Unceded Territories

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29 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 30 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 reviews FICTION

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The Crooked Heart of Mercy psychological journey out of and pulls the trigger during Pentecostal churches. Not not Maggie and Ben will be by Billie Livingston the black hole of self-punish- a drug-induced hallucina- even visits to synagogues or able to successfully unite and (Random House $29.95) ment towards healing. tion, only to find himself in Buddhist temples bring relief, regain tenderness. There’s Maggie’s parents died in a white room, evading a psy- until Maggie accompanies also a sub-plot involving sto- BY a car accident, leaving her to chiatrist’s probing questions. Lucy to The United Church len veterinarian pharmaceu- JEREMY TWIGG be raised by her elder brother His dialogue is not denoted by of Spiritualism, where she ticals. N THE WORLD OF FACEBOOK, whose homosexuality doesn’t quotation marks, so the reader experiences a positive connec- Livingston’s knack for dia- everybody’s life appears jibe with his tumultuous ca- must deduce which words are tion to the memory of her son: logue makes every encoun- shiny and perfect: hap- reer as a Catholic priest. spoken aloud. “Recalling the sense of him is ter believable. Her prose is py couples vacation in Ben’s mom fled his abusive, Maggie tries a job caring for like rolling in warm cotton.” consistently un-flashy, then exotic locales; jubilant alcoholic father, leaving him the elderly, but breaks down Maggie’s spiritual flirta- suddenly she’ll describe Mag- Ifamilies revel in wholesome to raise his younger brother in tears reading a children’s tions are cut short when she gie’s eyes as “Acid eyes, kalei- activities; freshly-baked cook- who grows up to find himself book—the subject matter hit- figures out that a subsequent doscope eyes that tripped and ies are pulled from the oven. owing a large sum of money to ting too close to home. She session with a psychic is burned and saw it all.” In contrast, Billie Livings- a drug dealer. eventually manages a return rigged. There is no clear path According to ABCBook- ton’s characters are riddled Maggie and Ben embark on to the workforce, providing to redemption. Ben’s unfor- World, Livingston has worked with flaws and anxieties, but the journey of starting their driving services and com- giving dislike of his abusive as a file clerk, receptionist, their authenticity is appeal- own family, only to suffer panionship to a spirited and father comes across as entirely cocktail waitress, model, ac- ing; so much so it’s hard not an even worse trauma: their un-politically correct senior reasonable, but his psyche tor, chocolate sampler and to like them. first and only child falls to named Lucy, who brings a wel- remains dark. He calls one of booth-host at a plumber’s In 2011, Livingston won the his death from a third-story come element of levity to the Maggie’s past clients, telling convention. She has sold Danuta Gleed Award for short window. Crushed by guilt, novel. Lucy recounts a prom- the senior on the other end diamonds, done PR for a beer fiction for Greedy Little Eyes. they are unable to forgive ise to her deceased husband of the line that sedatives she company, and dressed up as Her 2012 novel, One Good themselves, love each-other or to keep him off life support, gave to Maggie as a ‘tip’ caused both Garfield for a kitty lit- Hustle, was nominated for the hold down steady jobs. telling the paramedics not to their child’s death. ter company and ‘Bingo the Giller Prize. The 2014 movie “After Frankie died,” ex- bother resuscitating him upon Maggie’s priest-brother Banana Split’ for a Teletoons Sitting on the Edge of Marlene plains Maggie, “I began to feel arrival. “Don’t bother with Francis is plagued by binge- promotion. was based on Livingston’s as though anyone I met must that,” she says. “He’s dead. I drinking tendencies and a As the daughter of an al- novella about an intimate and know at once that I was the didn’t call you till I knew he rocky relationship with the coholic mother, Billie Liv- volatile mother-and-daughter most contemptible bit of filth was dead.” church, not to mention a ingston, as a writer, seems to tandem, The Trouble with he would ever lay eyes on. I felt As Livingston’s charac- penchant for one-night-stands accept that people don’t need Marlene. as if I should be driven into the ters struggle to emerge from with men. Following a night to be perfect to be good—a fact Her sixth book, The wilderness.” the sticky clutches of guilt, of debauchery, Francis finds that underpins her disturbing Crooked Heart of Mercy, Maggie removes her apart- the story does not follow a himself the unwelcome sub- but deeply compassionate fic- promises to be her break-out ment mirrors to avoid her re- Hollywood-style plot, in which ject of an internet video called tion. She has called Vancou- title in the U.S. flection and any soul-search- characters strive to achieve ‘Drunk Priest Propositions ver home since 1965. In The Crooked Heart of ing that might come with it. tangible or clearly defined Cop’ that goes viral. Yet Fran- 978-0345815385 Mercy we follow the struggles She is reminded of her son’s goals. cis will play a key role in of an estranged couple, Mag- death at every elevator ride; Maggie seeks faith to heal cracking Ben’s shell of guilt- Jeremy Twigg, a gradu- gie and Ben, who come from even ascending makes her her psychological wounds, induced purgatory. ate of UBC’s creative writ- childhoods not fit for cheery stomach lurch. experimenting with Episcopa- The reader sticks with ing program, works in the status updates. Theirs is a Ben puts a gun to his head lian, Baptist, Methodist and them, wondering whether or public relations industry.

31 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 interview YOUNG ADULT

Spirit Level by Sarah N. Harvey make them feel good. (Orca $14.95) This is the central tenet of Harvey’s newest, 233-page IT’S COMPLICATED young adult novel, a tension- ILLIONS OF PEO- rich, conflict-a-minute ride ple have been that packs a helluva didn’t see following THAT coming, didja? whallop Caitlyn Jen- Spirit Level presents long-hidden truths that are now exploding out about halfway through. Com- Mner ’s tweets, of the collective social closet and puts evocative faces on them. plex and delicately layered, so suffice to say there’s a rev- Harvey’s characters—and Sarah N. Harvey elation in ’s their families—stay with you. Spirit Level eleventh novel, , “It’s that whole nature/ drafts are pretty clean.” their truths and break with Nobody’s story is straight. that makes it very much in nurture thing,” says Harvey. It amounts to what she others’ expectations can free The dynamism and uncon- tune with the curiosity of our “That’s part of what I wanted calls her slinky method: draft- themselves of toxic bonds and ventionality of Harvey’s char- times. to talk about with this book.” ing freely, looping back to form their own healthy tribe acters reflect today’s realities. But overall this is a modern Equally important, Harvey revise, then unrolling the new consisting of people who ac- Nobody’s family—indeed, no- story in which Harvey sets out explores how the hunger to words. Not only does this ap- tually body’s inner world—is to explore the bonds between belong—to know where we’re proach help her remember entirely conventional, donor-conceived siblings. from and who we belong to—is where she’s at in the story, it at least not once “I am always a universal urge. develops the nuances of her you look under interested in what “Who is my characters, who start out the hood. as mere pencil sketches. constitutes a fam- tribe? That is really 9781459808164 ily,” she says. “My the driving force,” Families are com- overriding inter- she says. “Spirit plicated. They are Alex Van est—and I can see Level is about the beautiful things, ev- Tol’s new this from looking ALEX tribes, and the va- er-evolving things, book is at all my novels—is riety within those safe things, where Aliens how families func- VAN TOL tribes.” warm, soft bonds Among Us: tion, what creates a So it is that Har- keep everyone Invasive family, whether blood creates vey populates her story with a knitted together in Animals a family, or whether love cre- fistful of dynamic, non-main- mutual harmony. and Plants ates a family.” stream characters rendered in Families are of B.C. In Spirit Level we meet a vivid strokes: lesbian moms; a also terrible (Royal B.C. donor-conceived teenager who single mother risen from the things, warped Museum). has grown up knowing the cir- ashes of addiction and abuse; things, immov- cumstances around her birth. a compulsive liar with a real able things where While helping her sociologist possessiveness problem; and blood or marriage mother conduct meaningful a transgendered character. ties bind tightly research into homeless girls No stranger to digging into enough to strangle. in Seattle, the teen transcribes life’s thorny issues, Harvey Either way, fami- her mum’s interviews with the has written about plastic sur- lies are not always de- teenaged girls, nearly all of gery, teen pregnancy, aging fined by blood. Coura- whom feel their families have and death, and mental illness. geous types who follow let them down badly. Although Harvey makes her In the process, the teen de- living as an editor, she says cides to explore her own fam- she is able to separate her ily—including tracking down writing from her day-job. “I and connecting with donor- allow the editor to have a place conceived half-siblings. Over in the book after I’ve written a the next several months, she substantial amount of it,” she meets and develops relation- says. “But my writing style for ships with her two half-sisters. a first draft is not to just ‘get Sarah N. Harvey: One she adores instantly, the it all out onto the page.’ My For the past 10 other she dislikes. One of her style is to write a chapter, years she has been half-sisters holds a secret go back over and revise a writer and chil- that, when finally revealed, it, and then write the dren’s book editor. Before that she shifts the way the teen sees next. I revise heavily as was a bookseller the world. I go along, so my first for many years.

family’s priceless collection of gold coins has McGuire must have killed Uncle Tam. Now how SNOOPS, DOG gone missing. The siblings decide to investigate do they tell the adults without catching hell for on their own. They set out to confirm Frame’s snooping around? & FARM FRESH MYSTERY suspicion that the murderer is cantankerous old Sandy’s soiled and rack-thin appearance upsets Mr. McGuire, a kid-hating turkey farmer known Frame terribly, so she and Ranger hatch a plan It wasn’t the butler, it must have as The McGuire whose property abuts their own. to smuggle the dog to safety. The tension rises After they find Uncle Tam’s dog, Sandy, tied as more people are embroiled in the mystery, been the kid-hating turkey farmer… Frame and The McGuire up behind The McGuire’s barn, the pair discover including elder siblings Michael and Bird, the kids’ in , parents and a neighbouring farm hand. Alex Van Tol the gold coins hidden on the old man’s property. reviewed by They feel like it’s an open and shut case: The ✫ BILLED AS YA, FRAME AND THE MCGUIRE IS A LIVELY, OU KNOW IT’S GOING TO BE A BAD DAY WHEN fast-paced and well-orchestrated mystery you find a dead guy floating in the also suitable for upper elementary-aged creek near your farm. And so it readers. Joanna M. Weston’s concise, emo- Y Joanna M. Weston goes for ’s pro- tive sentences also make this a great read Frame and The McGuire tagonist Frame in for reluctant readers. (Tradewind $12.95), who’s poking around Weston, who lives in Shawnigan Lake, with her brother Ranger one afternoon during was born in Somerset, England and arrived the spring runoff. in B.C. in 1960. She previously worked in Turns out the dead man is Uncle Tam—not libraries, advertising and cancer research. a real uncle, but a friendly and hardworking Her previous books are The Willow Tree man loved by all families in their little com- Girl (TreeHouse Press, 2003), Those Blue munity of Cowichan Station. Shoes (Clarity House Press, 2006) and A Frame and Ranger are rattled to the core, Summer Feather (Frontenac House, 2006). especially after the police discover a stab 978-1-896580-59-3 wound in the man’s chest. Who would have wanted to murder warm-hearted Uncle Tam? Shortly after the discovery of Tam’s Alex Van Tol is a freelance editor corpse, news explodes that the Dakens Cover art from Frame and The McGuire and author who lives in Victoria.

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Taking a Chance on Love ing and beach activities. It by Mary Razzell was a halcyon world in a time (Ronsdale Press $11.95) when young people could walk LOVE & THE 1940s miles along country roads and parents never worried where T WAS A TIME OF BIG their children were. bands, an uncrowded The life of a girl in a time of world war and family pressure to conform. The story is poignant be- B.C. coast, a war weary cause the heroine’s seemingly world and young love. one of the younger to play tennis with aggression. There are other perfect time existed when a Meg is 17, going into Pryces, because Glen, and missing boys in the picture as well: world war was decimating an Iher last year at high school. he’s handsome. He Amy, who has gone Meg’s brilliant chemistry part- exhausted world. Girls such She is determined to graduate also seems differ- off to Vancouver. ner, Jack, who has just arrived as Meg had far fewer opportu- and forge a career for herself. ent from his father While working for in the area, and a young man nities to choose the direction There is family pressure not to and his brothers Mrs. Hanson at the serving in the war whom Meg of their lives. It is difficult not succeed, not to waste time and and his half-broth- lodge, Meg meets agreed to take on as a pen pal to presume that much of this money on an education—be- ers. Less reckless. CHERIE her son, Bruce. but discouraged once he began convincing story is autobio- cause she’ll just wind up get- At first he appears Older and some- seeing the correspondence as graphical. ting married anyway. It’s the THEISSEN happy to be just times rude, stand- a prelude to something more. Mary Razzell’s first novel, 1940s. She is not supposed to ‘friends.’ That doesn’t last. offish and abrupt, Bruce has That’s the set-up for Mary Snow Apples, was shortlisted have both. Meg is busy working part- been sent home from the war, Razzell’s ninth young for the Governor General’s Meg is not like her cautious time at a lodge for the sum- badly burnt in a torpedo at- adult novel, Taking Award in 1984. 978-1-55380-455-0 best friend, Amy Miller. Meg is mer, dancing to the tunes tack and still only partway a Chance on Love, curious. Her body is starting of Glenn Miller and Count through his treatments. an engaging narra- Cherie Thiessen to confuse her, but her Basie in the eve- Bruce be- tive that emanates a reviews from head still rules. She is de- nings, learning gins to inter- strong sense of place Pender Island. termined not to be forced est Meg. She is and of time—the daily into anything that doesn’t turned off by arrivals of the Union feel right. Glen’s sexual Steamships, the boat- Around her she sees adults behaving badly. In PHOTO a coastal town called The CHOW Landing (think Sechelt or Gibsons), the adults all Mary Razzell CHUNG seem to be having affairs, contemplating divorces, sharing the same lover and fighting with their spouses. Her small com- ARCHIVES munity is a mini-Peyton Place, CITY stirred up by one family of males in particular—the Pryces. Union Steamship Company vessels, The Lady Cecilia and the Lady Evelyn docked at the wharf in Sechelt, circa 1930s.

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34 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 line Adderson will is for Anderson give writerly advice A at the Blue Pencil Critique sessions, INSPIRED BY THE CITY OF COURTENAY S 100TH ’ named in honour anniversary, the Comox Valley Writers of the late Holley Society decided to compile a reference Rubinsky, and liter- book about 100 authors associated ary personalities will with the region in the past 100 years. include Bill Rich- Jill Barber It grew to include 180 authors over 150 ardson (The First years for Writers Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps), J.B. & Books: Comox McKinnon (100 Mile Diet, The Once Valley 1865–2015 and Future World), naturalist Richard (Poplar Publishing Cannings (British Columbia: A Natural $22). In alphabeti- History) and Briony Penn, author of cized listings that the Haig-Brown Prize-winning bio The range from Pamela Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian Anderson (Comox) McTaggart Cowan. Info: www.emlfes- to Joe Ziner (Cour- Pamela Anderson tival.com tenay), lots of little- known authors are given their due along with the likes of Alice Munro, is for Fox Jack Hodgins, Bus Griffiths and F Richard Mackie. 978-0-9685838-8-3 AS A CONSERVATION SCIentist and post- doctoral fellow with B is for Blythe Raincoast Conser- vation, UVic’s Caro- IDENTITY POLITICS AND DUALITY ARE THE line Fox has pub- concerns voiced in Twoism (Goose lished At Sea with Lane $19.95), the first poetry collection the Marine Birds by Ali Blythe of Victoria. Shortlisted of the Raincoast for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Caroline Fox (Rocky Mountain the poems are “erotically charged by Books $25), an unusual, illustrated the myth of completeness.” memoir that presents her life as a Blythe previously received the Can- scientist alongside the natural and dis Graham Writing Scholarship from human histories of Pacific Northwest the Lambda Foundation for excellence marine birds. in writing and support of the queer Fox recounts her voyage along the community. He has had a residency at coast as she documents marine bird the Banff Centre and gained a writing diversity, the shifts in community as- degree at the University of Victoria. semblages and the “spectacular, often 9780864928733 trans-equatorial migrations along the Northwest Coast.” Species covered include albatrosses, puffins and cranes. C is for Carolan Fox teaches marine ecology and conservation at the Bamfield Marine Sci- TREVOR CAROLAN HAS LONG BALANCED HIS ences Centre. 9781771601627 literary life with his spiritual concerns. Five years after The Beatles famously hung out with the Maharishi and Mia Trevor Carolan (crouching), Buddhist philosopher Nanao and poet/ Farrow in India, Trevor Carolan first publisher Ed Varney hiking north of Grouse Mountain, 1995. G is for Geddes encountered Buddhism in Calcutta in THE TITLE POEM OF conversation with a pilgrim monk on Gary Geddes’ The the banks of the Hooghly River. Having Resumption of since written and edited an excellent Play (Quattro $18) history of the Literary Storefront in received the 2015 Vancouver, Carolan has revisited his Malahat Review Buddhist affinities with New World Long Poem Prize for Dharma: Interviews and Encounters its compelling evo- with Buddhist Teachers, Writers and cation of the trauma Leaders (SUNY Press $75). Including Who’s Who Gary Geddes produced by Cana- his encounter with poet Allen Ginsberg da’s Indian residential schools. on Cortes Island, Carolan has chapters BRITISH COLUMBIA The varying content of The Re- on the Dalai Lama, Governor Jerry sumption of Play includes an elegiac Brown and poets Gary Snyder and sequence about Geddes’ mother, who Lawrence Ferlinghetti, among others. died at age thirty-five; a poem about 978-1-4384-5983-7 BC Book Prizes’ Pound, Brodsky, Stravinsky, and nominee Amber Dawn signs her Diaghilev called “On Being Dead in book at the gala Venice”; and two prison letters from So- D is for Dawn in Victoria. malia. Other subjects include Virginia Woolf, Bronwen Wallace, misogyny, VOTED XTRA WEST S HERO OF THE YEAR IN 2008, ’ obstacles to belief and the healing Amber Dawn has delved into trauma, power of poetry. 978-1-927443-87-3 memory and unblushing sexuality through the prism of poetry for Where the Words End and My Body Begins is for Hebda (Arsenal $14.95), nominated for this H year’s Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. RICHARD J. HEBDA IS Previously she won the 2013 City of a curator of earth Vancouver Book Award for her frank, history and botany non-fiction portrayal of her years spent at the Royal BC Mu- hustling sex on the streets, How Po- seum and adjunct etry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir professor of biology (Arsenal 2013). 978-1-55152-583-9 and earth and ocean sciences at UVic. He is a key contributor Richard J. Hebda E is for Elephant to Jack Lohman’s

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35 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2016 WOOD BUFFALO BY GEORGE MERCER Book Two in the I is for in memoriam L is for Lawrence

THE SKELETON TREE Dyed In The Green RESPECTED AND LOVED as a teacher, edi- (Penguin Random fiction series about tor and publisher, House $19.99) by our national parks. Dona Sturmanis Iain Lawrence is (1955-2016) died a survival story for in the Okanagan of ages 8-12 about two ISBN: 978-0-9879754-2-3 • $19.99 cancer at age 60 on boys who must cope www.georgemercer.com March 8. Among the with their hostility Dona Sturmanis significant titles she Iain Lawrence to one another after Available at Independent Bookstores across Canada. published was Terry they are stranded in Also available as an ebook from Amazon and Kobo. Gould’s first book, How the Blind Make the wilderness of Kodiak, Alaska, with- Love (1984) and a poetry collection by out a radio, flares or food. Lawrence, of Pat Lowther, Final Instructions (1980), Gabriola Island, has spent many sum- edited by Fred Candelaria. Her own mers exploring the coast in a 40-year- first book was The Coffee Lover’s Hand- old converted whaleboat. 978-1-10191-835-7 New from Stonedrift Press book (Intermedia, 1979), co-written with Cathy Ford. “She was a positive pres- THIRST ence on our scene,” says George Bower- M is for Macdonald Katherine Prairie ing. “Of course she will be missed.” For a full obit, visit BCBookLook.com IN 1988, DONNA MACDONALD RAN FOR NELSON City Council and began her longest Deep in a Columbia River valley rocked job ever—19 years as a city councillor. by violence and tightly controlled by a J is for Johel “Being a city councillor is like doing a U.S.-Canada military force, geologist Alex dozen different jobs,” she says. Her Sur- Graham is on the hunt for silver. Her plans viving City Hall (Nightwood $22.95) is are derailed when she joins the search for A BOSTON-BORN, NEW YORK FORENSIC SCIENTIST a suspected toxic spill as the victim count named Elanna Forsythe George is hired a memoir about civic government with rises. by the Bollywood starlet, Simryn Gill, to stories that explore both the mechanics investigate the oddly under-publicized of local government and the humanity But the lethal contamination is no accident. death of Rajesh Sharma, a Bollywood of that work. 978-0-88971-320-8 director who supposedly died of a heart attack two years previously. She travels to Mumbai and begins to unravel a N is for Nixon Fiction / Suspense Thriller • available now • $17.95 cult that controls the Bollywood film Trade Paperback • 5½" x 8½" • 328 pp • 978-0-9949377-0-4 industry, in N.K. Johel’s two-volume Available in bookstores and from online booksellers| www.stonedriftpress.com novel, Bollywood Storm (EFG $19.99 each). Johel is a pseudonym for an Indo-Canadian writer born in Duncan in 1959. Her grandfather was a Sikh B BDI=:GIDC

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MONICA Briony Penn, winner of the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize.

neighbourhoods in the United States. Specifically, he examines gayborhoods such as the Castro District in San Francisco and New York’s Greenwich Village in the face of their increased integration with straight culture. How such clearly designated gayborhoods will cope with “post-gay culture” has yet to be determined. 9780691158792 20 plus varieties R is for Raven Yoka,

WITH GLENNA COLLETT, BOOK DESIGNER the beekeeper, Fiona Raven of Vancouver-based is engrossed in Mark O is for Okot Bitek Fiona Raven Book Design has self- Winston published Book Design Made Simple: ’s JULIANE OKOT BITEK S POETRY PROJECT Bee Time: ’ A step-by-step guide to designing on the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Lessons From and typesetting your own book us- Rwanda genocide is 100 Days (Univer- the Hive ing Adobe InDesign (12 Pines Press / sity of Alberta $19.95), part of a literary (Harvard U Press). Sandhill $59.95) a 500-page guide to series dedicated to Robert Kroetsch. designing and typesetting a book for As someone who has lived in both her non-designers and designers alike. A native Kenya and Uganda, Okot Bitek self-taught book designer since 1995, recalls her family’s displacement under Raven has had far-flung clients from the vicious regime of dictator Adi Amin Japan, Saudi Arabia and Tonga. while reflecting on the horrific and 978-0-9940969-0-6 tragic genocide in Rwanda. Her work incorporates the Ugandan Acholi oral tradition of her father, the poet Okot is for Shklanka p’Bitek, as well as Anglican hymns; S slave songs from the Americas, and KAREN SHKLANKA IS A POET, A FAMILY PHYSI- the contemporary styles of spoken cian and an Argentine Tango dance in- word and hip-hop. 978-1-77212-121-6 #5 - 1046 Mason St. Victoria, B.C. V8T 1A3 structor. With an MFA in creative writ- (just off Cook Street) • Tel: 1-250-384-0905 ing from UBC, Shklanka first recalled Hand sorted for premium quality • Full selection of exotic teas her experiences as a practitioner of • B.C. honey and Belgian chocolates • Mail orders welcome P is for Penn family medicine in Sumach’s Red Arms (Coteau, 2008) with unsentimental po- IAN MCTAGGART COWAN S MILESTONES ’ ems about “stitching a fight victim back www.yokascoffee.com were many: he was the founder of together in Moose Factory” and other the first Canadian university wild- medical rites of passage. Ceremony of life department, he was a pioneer of Touching (Coteau $16.95) continues nature-based television shows, and his her work in the same vein, exploring early work in Canada’s national parks and celebrating the preciousness of became the basis for wildlife conserva- FEDERATION OF BC WRITERS human contact, whether on a dance tion and environmental education. He floor or an emergency ward. addressed issues from climate change 978-1-55050-371-5 to endangered species before these BRITISH COLUMBIA'S topics were on the public’s radar. Briony Penn’s biographical tribute to McTaggart Cowan, The Real Thing COMMUNITY OF WRITERS (Rocky Mountain $30) was nominated for two B.C. Book Prizes, winning one. See pages 22-23. 9781771600705 Q is for Queer

AS A SCHOLAR WITHIN THE PETER WALL Institute at UBC, sociologist Amin Ghaziani has published There Goes The Gayborhood (Princeton Uni- BCWRITERS.CA versity Press $35), an overview that looks at the evolution of distinctly gay Karen Shklanka

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RONE award nominee Come climb aboard the last fairy tale!

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After All the Scissor Work is Done David Fraser These poems scrape at the dark of human experience— David Fraser sorts through memory with a raw clarity. 64 pp $16.95 www.leafpress.ca publishing poetry only

When his mother moves the family from the reserve to inner city, an artistically gifted First Nation youth struggles with poverty, peer pressure, discrimination, drugs and alcohol while trying to save his sister from the lure of prostitution. 978-0-9921246-0-1 • $19.95 Verniceshostal.com

A passionate look at baseball and its Seaview Retreat rich history. on Salt Spring Island Randall Wayne McLean writes on all things baseball and New York. From the Baseball Hall of Fame, to his trips to New York City, and his experience during 9/11. He walks you through historical achievements and personal baseball stories, some Home of Mother Tongue Publishing, of which are reflected through his poetry. From The Porch Gallery & Letterpress Studio his insightful humor and personal viewpoints beautiful, private, walk to village into baseball, his passion for the game shows through in his writings. A book for baseball fans, young and old. BY WILLAM STREET 978-1-4602-7575-7 (PB) PB: $16.99 CND • e-book: $6.99 CND (Amazon.ca) Available at Indigo Chapters, & iUniverse 978-1-4602-7576-4 eBook PB: $12.99 USD • e-book: $4.99 USD (Amazon.com) mothertonguepublishing.com in soft cover or ebook formats. 978-1-4917-5502-0 (sc) $25 250-537-4155 www.baseball-sayitaintso.blogspot.ca 978-1-4917-5502-3 (ebook) $6.29

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T is for Trower

THE FIRST AUTHOR PUBLISHED IN B.C., Alfred Waddington has a mountain named after him. So does author War- burton Pike. There’s a Bruce Hutchi- son Library in Victoria. Godwin Drive in Whonnock is named for Fraser Valley novelist George Godwin, thanks to efforts of historians Fred Braches and Robert Thomson. Now the efforts of Sechelt town councillor and publisher Silas White have resulted in Trower Lane, newly named after longtime Sun- shine Coast poet and ex-logger Peter Trower, recipient of the eighth George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for B.C. writing in 2002.

Xan Shian at Morar, looking over to Skye from the mainland of Ireland, 2013. Photo by Michael Elcock.

W is for Wilson X is for Xan Y is for Yuxweluptun

YOU DON’T NECESSAR- IN THIRTY YEARS, BC BOOKWORLD’S ONLY HAD TO COMMEMORATE FORTY YEARS OF MAKING ily need a lawyer to three authors with surnames that political and polemical art, Lawrence probate an estate; start with X... Georgia Xydes wrote Paul Yuxweluptun, an artist of Co- U is for USNA you might only re- Alexander Mackenzie and the Explor- wichan and Okanagan descent, has quire the fourth edi- ers of Canada (Chelsea House, 1992). a hugely successful retrospective at USNA: THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA tion of the British Born in Chongqing, China, in 1953, UBC’s Museum of Anthropology until is a futuristic graphic novel from David Columbia Probate Gu Xiong came to Vancouver in 1990. October. To accompany the exhibition Longworth, Harry Kalensky and Allan Kit (Self-Counsel Initially he was a sanitation worker at a of more than 60 works there’s a book Stanleigh, with art by Francine Del- Mary Jane Wilson $39.95) by Mary- UBC cafeteria. Hired by UBC’s Faculty with the same title, Lawrence Paul gado, and lettering by Chris Barrett. Jane Wilson who of Arts, he published his drawings in Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories It has been followed by USNA II, Book has practiced law since 1987. The Yellow Pear (Arsenal Pulp, 1997). (Figure 1 $45). One: The Match is Lit (Small Press All the required forms are included The Brother XII was the pseudonym Subject matter of the paintings United $11.95). The collective tag for on a CD-ROM (in MS Word and PDF of dictatorial cult leader and author, include land claims, missing and the authors is The Reel Write Brothers, formats) with step-by-step instruc- Edward Arthur Wilson, a scoundrel murdered women and environmental indicating various associations with the tions in keeping with the new Wills, who founded a spiritual community on degradation. film industry. Estates and Succession Act effective southern Vancouver Island in the late Politics and black humour are cor- These graphic novels imagine an as of March 31, 2014. 1920s and early 1930s. nerstones of his art with titles like Red amalgamation of the U.S. and Canada Wilson speaks on estate planning Marilyn Bowering’s daughter Alex- Man Watching White Man Trying to Fix resulting in discontent from mavericks matters for the Continuing Legal andra, who goes by the name of Xan Hole in the Sky and Christy Clark and who resent the consolidation of author- Education Society of B.C. and writes Shian, contributed photos to Thresh- the Kinder Morgan Go Go Girls. ity and control, particularly within on estate issues for newspapers and old (Leaf Press $20), her mother’s This retrospective includes com- the former realm of Canada. Led by magazines. In 2013, she received a tribute to the 17th century Hebridean mentary from Michael Turner, Lucy Emmett O’Brien, a rebellion arises in Surrey Board of Trade “Women in Busi- rebel poet Mary MacLeod. Lippard, Marcia Crosby, Glenn Alteen Chicago, San Francisco and Halifax. ness” award. 978-1-77040-270-6 978-1-926655-88-8 and a short-story by Jimmy Durham, 978-0-9809701-5-9 plus dialogue with curators Karen Duf- fek and Tania Willard. 978-1-927958-51-3 Billie Burke in V is for van Oort The Wizard of Oz. Z is for Ziegfeld RICHARD VAN OORT

examines the univer- MOST PEOPLE REMEMBER THE ACTRESS sality of five Shake- Billie Burke, if they remember her speare tragedies in at all, for her role as Glinda the Good Shakespeare’s Big Witch of the North in MGM’s 1939 Men: Tragedy and film, The Wizard of Oz, but many years the Problem of Re- before that she was a famous stage sentment (UTP $60) personality, in London and New York, Richard van Oort through the prism as well as the wife of Florenz Ziegfeld. of “generative an- Grant Hayter-Menzies’ biography thropology.” This discipline, founded Mrs. Ziegfeld: The Public and Private by Eric Gans, addresses the social Lives of Billie Burke (McFarland & function of tragedy as deflection of Company, $25) is the first to be written resentment against men of power. about her. “It is something of an autho- Using Gans’ theories, Richard van rized biography,” says Hayter-Menzies, Oort explores the connection between “as Burke’s daughter and grandchil- Shakespeare’s plays and the ethical dren cooperated with me in researching dilemma of resentment. Burke’s private life.” 978-1-4426-5007-7 978-1-4766-6596-2

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