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visages et de nouvelles perspectives : austerity measures move money through ‘ideological bias’ « Tout est dans la façon dont on observe les choses », 26 The Art of Communication in a Polarized World indique Lyne Gareau de cette créature d'inspiration by Kyle Conway romaine / Short story collection’s titular tale invokes two-faced cat and new perspectives: ‘It’s all in the way you Communication strategies for classroom, students, look at things,’ Lyne Gareau says of the Roman-inspired and scholars are easily adaptable: Kyle Conway asks creature for a return to curiosity, playfulness, and ethics, rather than competition DISPATCHES 45 Insights from an Indigenous Educator by Greg Pruden 4 Prairie books NOW | spring/summer 2020 fiction Dystopian tale takes on climate change, but is primarily about family Doreen Vanderstoop believes that ultimately, ‘our resilience will save us’ by Margaret Anne Fehr WATERSHED hopes that the novel will Doreen Vanderstoop be of interest to a wide Freehand Books readership, including $22.95 pb, 360 pages cli-fi aficionados and ISBN: 978-1-988298-59-7 environmentalists, as well as readers of thrillers and family sagas. atershed has been a work in progress for over “Watershed is chiefly a 10 years, says Calgary-based author Doreen book about family, but it W would be very gratifying Vanderstoop. if this story helped build “After working on the novel on and off for a few years, some urgency into people’s I read about Margaret Atwood’s comments at a high discussions around climate school literary festival. She reminded everyone of the change. I loved connecting warnings issued by Al Gore and Stephen Harper’s refusal with my own Dutch roots to sign the Helsinki agreement to limit carbon output. (I immigrated with my family from the Netherlands in Atwood asked, ‘Where are all the Canadian writers who 1968), so if others were sparked to connect with their own should be addressing the greatest crisis of our age?’ Her cultural heritage, that would be awesome too.” comment was the clarion call I needed to take Vanderstoop acknowledges that the novel up Watershed in earnest,” explains Vanderstoop. presents a fairly grim vision of a not-too-distant The novel is set in a dystopian future in future. the year 2058 in Alberta where water has “Unfortunately, many aspects in Watershed replaced oil as the most vital global commodity. are based in reasonable probability. I am hoping Vanderstoop describes a farming environment my accelerated timing is off, but there’s even no that has been severely affected as glaciers melt guarantee of that. This is serious stuff. However, and the Bow and Elbow rivers have run dry. I am a novelist, not a scientist, and so I don’t “The story concept was motivated by my pretend to know when the glaciers will be gone lifelong sympathy for farmers,” she says. BARR COURTNEY or when our thirst for oil will run its course.” “Perhaps that sounds unusual since I’ve lived in Doreen Vanderstoop Watershed is not a political or scientific cities all my life, but I remember even as a child, treatise. “Ultimately, this is a novel about listening to weather reports in the spring and hoping family, the conflicting ambitions between a mother and there would be just enough rain and sun for our Alberta her son, who goes to work for the pipeline corporation farmers to successfully grow their crops.” instead of returning to help the family business, and the Vanderstoop shares that the principal character, Willa strain cataclysmic climate change could place on family Van Bruggen, a tall, strong-willed Dutch woman, came dynamics,” says Vanderstoop.

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