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2 Bc Bookworld Autumn 2012 2 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2012 PEOPLE BCTOP SELLERS* GO TELL IT TO THE MOUNTAINS The Garden That You Are (Sono Nis Press $28.95) A Kilimanjaro epiphany connects the wealthy with the poor by Katherine Gordon All the Dirt: Reflections on NCE UPON A TIME, YOGA TEACHER Prior to turning 40, Sondhi left Lululemon and hiked up Mount Organic Farming (TouchWood Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, next to her native Kenya, and returned to Van- Editions $29.95) by Rachel Fisher, Amrita Sondhi was hiking up couver to launch her own clothing line specializing in sustainable fibres. Robin Tunnicliffe & Heather Stretch Grouse Mountain when she met Having detoured in 2006 to publish The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook, The Opening Act: Canadian Chip Wilson, who shared his into its third printing, she has now produced her second Ayurvedic Theatre History 1945-1953 cookbook. (Ronsdale Press $24.95) vision for a new clothing company By Susan McNicoll The Tastes of Ayurveda: More Healthful, Healing Recipes for Oto be called Lululemon Athletica. After Sondhi suggested the Modern Ayurvedic (Arsenal Pulp $26.95) includes modern inter- his company should carry yoga wear, Lululemon went glo- pretations of Indian cuisine (spicy paneer zucchini kabobs and mango and coconut kulfi), and Ayurvedic spins on vegetarian fare (barley rain- bal. It was not her first foray into fashion. Working from bow pilaf and raw zucchini hummus). The book also includes yoga and her parents’ basement, Sondhi had started a clothing com- breathing exercises easily done at home or at work, full-colour recipe photos, and information on sprouting/fermenting techniques and backyard pany called Tayari and opened a successful boutique in gardening. the Point Grey neighborhood of Vancouver, but thieves The Ayurvedic diet is based on the concept of three “doshas”: vata (air), pitta (fire), and kapha (earth). Each of us has a primary dosha that robbed the store, twice, prompting her to conclude, “the we can strive to maintain at a healthy balance, but which can cause universe must be staying STOP.” problems in excess. The book includes a questionnaire so readers can determine their own primary dosha and then look for recipes that will help them maintain or reduce it for optimal health. Ayurveda, the 5,000-year-old healing tradition from India linked to the development of yoga, is based on the concept that one’s physical, PHOTO mental, and spiritual well-being comes from a number of sources, includ- SALMON ing a healthful diet based on one’s individual constitution. On Kilimanjaro, Sondhi had an epiphany: she would connect REBECCA westerners with the local people she met in Tanzania who were poor but Cold Comfort: community-minded, resulting in her creation of The Pamoja Foundation. Growing Up Cold War Now living on Bowen Island, she donates 10% of the proceeds from her (Talonbooks $18.95) Movement clothing line and her cookbooks to her foundation by Gil McElroy (www.pamoja.org) that supports grass roots entrepreneurs in making Using a box of photographs that their way from poverty to self-sustainability through micro-loans. document his father’s military career, author Gil McElroy unlocks Modern 1-55152-204-7; Tastes 978-1-55152-438-2 the secrets of a father better understood by his military compatriots than by his own family. Citizen of the century Something Fierce: Memoirs remains an enigma of a Revolutionary Daughter (D&M $21) by Carmen Aguirre Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960 (Anvil Press $25) by John Belshaw and Diane Purvey JOE FORTES A Canadi- THE TWO BEST-KNOWN VANCOUVERITES FROM THE TWENTIES an’s Best were Pauline Johnson, a half-Mohawk “princess” and Tax Haven: Joe Fortes, a black man from Trinidad. Their funeral pro- The US by cessions outstripped those for any politician, sports hero or Robert Keats entrepreneur. (Self-Counsel Robert Press $19.95) The large and hugely like- Keats able lifeguard was voted “Citi- City Critters: Wildlife in zen of the Century” because he the Urban Jungle (Orca Books taught literally hundreds of chil- $19.95) by Nicholas Read dren how to swim at English Bay. Allen Carr's Easy Way to Now there’s a swanky restau- Stop Smoking (Sandhill Book rant named after Fortes, as Marketing $19.95) by Allen Carr well as the West End branch of the Vancouver Public A Wilder West: Rodeo in Joe Fortes Western Canada (UBC Press Library. $24.95) by Mary Ellen Kelm Amrita Sondhi: After But who was he? Lisa Anne Smith and suggesting Lululemon ’ Our Friend Joe: The Joe The Book of Kale: Barbara Rogers carry yoga wear, the The Easy-to-Grow Superfood, Fortes Story (Ronsdale Press $21.95) is a slim company went global. 80+ Recipes (Harbour $26.95) biography about a big man that gamely succeeds by Sharon Hanna in collecting all that can be known. But Joe Fortes will remain an endearing and mysterious presence, * The current topselling titles from 12 a symbol for racial tolerance from an era when it major BC publishing companies, in no particular order. was severely lacking. 978-1-55380-146-7 Publisher/ Writer: Publication Mail Agreement #40010086 Contributors: Hannah Main-van der Kamp, Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: John Moore, Joan Givner, Sage Birchwater, For this issue, we gratefully acknowledge the Alan Twigg BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6R 2S3 Mark Forsythe, Louise Donnelly, Cherie Thiessen, unobtrusive assistance of Canada Council, a • Shane McCune, Charlotte Cameron continuous partner since 1988. Produced with the sponsorship of Writing not otherwise credited is by staff. Editor/Production: Pacific BookWorld News Society. Publications Mail Consultants: Sharon Jackson David Lester Registration No. 7800. BC BookWorld ISSN: 1701-5405 Photographers: Barry Peterson, Laura Sawchuk BC Proofreaders: Wendy Atkinson, Tara Twigg BOOKWORLD Advertising & editorial: Design: Get-to-the-Point Graphics. AUTUMN 2012 BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Deliveries: Ken Reid, The News Group In-Kind Supporters: Vancouver, B.C., V6R 2S3. Tel/Fax: 604-736-4011 All BC BookWorld reviews are posted online at Simon Fraser University Library; Vol. 26, No. 3 Email: [email protected]. Annual subscription: $25 www.abcbookworld.com Vancouver Public Library. 3 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2012 PEOPLE Miles Olson: Future KOSOVO, NOT VICTORIA primitive Born to be rewild ORGET LEFTIST POLITICS OR UBER-SYNTHETIC INTEL- THE MATURITY OF CHRIS GUDGEON’S STYLISTICALLY ligence. The real vanguard is rewilding. After a European novel Song of Kosovo (Goose Lane $29.95) will Fdecade of foraging, hunting, gardening and gathering come as a surprise for anyone who might have viewed him for his survival in a forested area near Courtenay. Miles solely as a literary arts administrator for the B.C. Arts Coun- Olson’s manual for radical self-reliance in harmony with cil. Gudgeon’s first novel is a sly, frequently amusing and nature, Unlearn, Rewild: Earth Skills, Ideas and Inspi- penetrating distillation of individual estrangement and social ration for the Future Primitive (New Society $15.95) is chaos set during the Balkan wars of the late 1990s. Ostensi- also a philosophical treatise for those wishing to “heal them- bly a manuscript discovered by the narrator named Gudgeon selves and the earth.” Whether dealing responsibly with while he was working as a post-war “social historian” in wastes or learning how to tan and process animal hides, the Pristina, Kosovo, for an international team of translators reader is beckoned to embrace “the future primitive and ex- and rebuilders, the novel takes the perience their wildest dreams.” Just mix a little feral food form of a young man’s memoir, writ- preservation with harvesting unconventional proteins and natu- ten mostly in prison for his defence ral methods of birth control and you’re away to the human lawyer, recalling the shattering of races. It’s possibly the most radical B.C. book of the year. former Yugoslavia. 9780865717213 The narrator, one Zavida Zankovic, must retain his sanity in ARTEFACTS & FICTION Chris Gudgeon the face of absurd charges, resulting in a darkly comic style reminiscent ASKATCHEWAN-RAISED LESLIE HALL PINDER JOINED A prestigious Vancouver law firm as its first female liti- of Kafka, Josef Skovecky or Jerzy Kozinsky. gator in 1977, but this firm held its monthly meetings This is not an attempt to reproduce the tragedy of war with S documentary zeal; rather it is a literary journey emboldened at a club that did not admit women. Asked to use the servants’ entrance, she walked through the front door. Her employment by wit and artifice, a perfectly executed literary conceit. The ended—and her passion for social justice kept growing. intended recipient of the story is the lawyer Nexhmije Pinder became the in-house counsel for the Union of B.C. Gjinushi of the Pristina School of Law and Cosmeticalogical Indian Chiefs, established her own law firm, and supported land Sciences. Throughout the horrors of the war, there is the claims for her First Nations clients from 1982 until 2005. She also protagonist’s urgent and abiding love affair with the beauti- published two novels and a 1991 chapbook, The Carriers of No, in ful Tristina. Our hero meets her at the Pavlov Museum out- Leslie Hall side of Moscow where, as students, they spontaneously decide which she criticized Judge Allan McEachern’s notorious decision Pinder: against the Gitskan-Wet’suwet’en land claim. examining they must steal two stuffed versions of Pavlov’s dogs. Gudg- Now her third novel, Bring Me One of Everything (Grey Swan $16.95), greed eon’s other books include biographies of folk singer Stan blends fiction and fact to examine greed and expropriation of First Rogers and poet Milton Acorn. He recently left his civil Nations artefacts.
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