PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT #40010086 VOL. 27 LAURA SAWCHUCK PHOTO AUTUMN 2013 KINDLEFREE YOUR GUIDETO NEVER BC BOOKWORLD

•

NO. 3 SURVIVING SECRET RATZINGER: TEACHER’S RELUCTANT PET GINO ODJICK in a band office Isawonce, in abandoffice Always Worked for a Living a for Worked Always First Nations People Have People Nations First and now it’s mymantra:

SOLDIERS MUTINY BOOKS

“There’s thissign “There’s RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS , co-ownerofMusqueamGolf&Learning Academy profiles 16aboriginal successful careers. Canadians forging A newanthology GOD’S ROTTWEILER See page9

&

AUTHORS

. ”

P.11 P.27

P.29 P.23

25

th Anniversary Year Anniversary th SHELLEY HRDLITSCHKA IDLE

FREE 2 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 BCTOP* SELLERS PEOPLE

Whitewater Cooks with Friends (Sandhill Book Marketing $34.95) by Shelley Adams

The Garden That You Are (Sono Nis $28.95) by Katherine Gordon

Little You (Orca $9.95) by Richard Van Camp and Julie Flett

Ian T. Parsons

No Easy Ride: Reflections on My Life in the RCMP (Heritage House $19.95) by Ian T. Parsons

How Happy Became Homo- sexual & Other Mysterious Semantic Shifts (Ronsdale Press $19.95) by Howard Richler Vancouver United after their first win in Turin, en route to a world title. Where Happiness Dwells: A History of the Dane-zaa First Nations (UBC Press $34.95) by Robin Riddington & Jullian Riddington, with elders of the Dane-zaa First Nations Canada unlikely champs in Italy The Angelic Occurrence (Red Tuque Books $21.95) Vancouver United won its qualifying contests 2-1, 3-0, 2-0, 2-0; fol- N OVER-50S TEAM SPONSORED BY BC BOOKWORLD by Henry K. Ripplinger lowed by a 5-0 quarter-final win and a 2-0 semi-final win. A brain surgeon by has won the world soccer championship for their trade, Chris Honey won the golden boot with five goals; three other Aage category at the World Masters Games in Tu- players scored three times each. rin, Italy, winning seven games in seven days. “The enormity of what we have accomplished is beginning to set in,” With a bare bones roster, Vancouver United smoked international oppo- said Honey. “I have not felt such a strong bond with a team so quickly sition with an overall plus/minus goal differential of 18-1. More bizarrely, before. Especially in the final half of the Gold Medal match, I felt part of they allowed just two shots on goal. something important, something perfect, something worth remembering.” Injuries depleted VanU to eleven men for the finale, but they prevailed The team assembled by contrator Donal Morgan was chiefly com- Eve Lazarus with relative ease, 2-0, exhibiting superior teamwork, fitness and sports- prised of players from a team called Kitsilano Pirates, including BCBW Sensational Victoria: Bright manship throughout the Games, held August 2-11. publisher Alan Twigg. Lights, Red Lights, Murders, Inaugurated in 1985, the World Masters Games are convened every four If soccer prowess could have been measured by an odometer, Vancouver Ghosts & Gardens (Anvil $24) by Eve Lazarus years as a counterpoint to the Olympics, for athletes 35 and older. It has United was in a class of its own. Phil Hay, a marathoner, easily outran all evolved into the world’s largest multi-sport event in terms of participants. competitors. Four Homeless Millionaires (Promontory Press $17.99) (The Sydney World Masters Games attracted 28,676 competitors in 2009, “We won it the right way,” said Hay. “I really appreciated the selfless by Rik Leaf more than double the number of athletes that competed in the 2000 Sydney attitude that permeated the team. Everyone bought into it and allowed us to

Hollyhock: Olympics.) overcome the obstacles we faced. We all worked hard for each other and Garden To Table proved without a doubt we had the best team in our tournament.” (New Society Publishers $24.95) by Moreka Jolar In 1904, a team from Galt, Ontario won the Olympic & Heidi Scheifley Whistler takes its Q gold medal in soccer at the second Olympic Games, in St. They Called Me Number One: Louis, but only two other teams from St. Louis were com- Secrets & Survival at an Jian Ghomeshi, host of the CBC radio arts program Q, will moderate peting. Since then Canada’s male soccer players have been Indian Residential School a panel at the next Whistler Readers and Writers Festival, Oct. 18 to (Talonbooks $19.95) mostly ranked in the bottom third of FIFA’s world rankings. by Bev Sellars 20. Other participants will include Patrick deWitt, author of The one time Canada’s national men’s side qualified for the Governor General Literary Award-winning novel The Sis- Raven Brings the Light the World Cup, it failed to score. ters Brothers; Canada Reads winner Lisa Moore; Rich- (Harbour $19.95) by Roy Henry The Trail Smoke Eaters was the last independent Vickers & Robert Budd ard Wagamese, winner of the National Aboriginal club to gain world supremacy for Canada in ice hockey, Achievement Award for Media and Communications; and Gardens Aflame: bringing home championships in 1939 and 1961. Garry Oak Meadows of Roberta Rich, author of The Midwife of Venice. The BC's South Coast (New Star Cherie Smith Jewish Book Festival (see page 5) runs The next World Masters Games will be held in Books $19) by Maleea Acker November 24-29; the Vancouver Writers Festival (see Auckland, New Zealand in 2017, coordinated by the * The current topselling titles page 4) runs October 22-27; and The Victoria Writers International Masters Games Association in from major BC publishing Jian companies, in no particular order. Festival runs Oct. 17-19. Ghomeshi Lausanne, Switzerland.

Publication Mail Agreement #40010086 COMING SOON Publisher/ Writer: Advertising & editorial: Contributors: John Moore, Joan Givner, Sage Birchwater, Shane McCune All BC BookWorld reviews Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Mark Forsythe, Louise Donnelly, Cherie Thiessen, Ayla Harker. Writing not are posted online at Alan Twigg BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6R 2S3 Vancouver, B.C., V6R 2S3. otherwise credited is by staff. Design: Get-to-the-Point Graphics www.abcbookworld.com • Tel/Fax: 604-736-4011 Consultants: Christine Rondeau, Monique Sherrett, Sharon Jackson Produced with the sponsorship of Email: [email protected]. Photographers: Barry Peterson, Laura Sawchuk In-Kind Supporters: Editor/Production: Pacific BookWorld News Society. Publications Mail Proofreaders: Wendy Atkinson, Tara Twigg Simon Fraser University Library; BC David Lester Registration No. 7800. BC BookWorld ISSN: 1701-5405 Annual subscription: $25 Deliveries: Ken Reid, The News Group Vancouver Public Library. BOOKLOOK For this issue, we gratefully acknowledge the AUTUMN 2013 unobtrusive assistance of Canada Council, a A DAILY NEWS SERVICE Vol. 27, No. 3 continuous partner since 1988.

3 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 UNDAUNTED is a non-fiction collection featuring some of the best articles from BC BookWorld in celebration of its 25th anniversary.

Like the newspaper, this anthology has something for everyone — Lionel Kearns describes the time he was Fidel Castro’s catcher for a baseball game in Cuba; Birute Galdikas writes about saving orangutans. Other contributors include W.P. Kinsella, Joel Bakan, Jane Rule, George Woodcock, Stephen Vizinczey, Mark Forsythe, John Moore, Shane McCune and Joan Givner.

“I have never before encountered a book journal as engaging as BC BookWorld.” —JACK MCCLELLAND

WWW.RONSDALEPRESS.COM $19.95 • ISBN: 978-1-55380-253-2 • e-book ISBN: 978-1-55380-254-9 PDF ISBN: 978-1-55380-255-6 • 6” x 9” Trade Paperback • 200 pages • Nonfiction

One hundred writers from around the world in events for readers like you.

Nadeem Aslam Margaret Atwood Joseph Boyden Anne Carson Michael Crummy Douglas Coupland

Sahar Delijani Tomson Highway Helen Humphreys Maureen Johnson Sarah de Leeuw Earl Lovelace

Anne Michaels Colin Mochrie Lisa Moore George Packer Andrew Pyper Corin Raymond

OCT 22 –27, 2013 Eric Schlosser Mary Swan Scott Turow Michel Tremblay Priscila Uppal Michael Winter Six days of engaging Tickets on sale September 9 discussions, interviews, readings and performances vancouvertix.com on Granville Island. 604 629 8849 writersfest.bc.ca

4 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 PEOPLE Kick at the Cannes

CLIPSING NEW OFFERINGS FROM THE ECoen brothers and Roman Polanski, Blue Is the Warmest Color: The Life of Adele won the coveted Palme d’Or, the top prize at that Cannes Film Festival. Vancouver publisher Brian Lam didn’t even know a feature film was in the works when he acquired the rights for an English translation of Julie Maroh’s graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude at the Frankfurt Book Fair last year. It’s a lesbian coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who falls in love with an older woman. When the heart breaks twice “What interests me,” writes author and artist Julie Maroh, “is the ER PARENTS BOTH DIED WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG, banalization of homosexualilty.” Hbut that was just the beginnng of grief. Lam’s North American version from Ginny Dennehy later endured even greater Arsenal Pulp in Vancouver, due in Oc- heartbreak when she lost her bipolar seventeen- tober, will now be called Blue is the year-old son Kelty to suicide—he hung him- Warmest Color (Arsenal Pulp self with a garden hose when she was away at a $19.95) rather than Blue Angel as origi- nally planned. The graphic novel was conference—and lost her daughter Riley first released by Belgian comics pub- [bungee jumping above] to a heart attack eight lisher Glénat in 2010. years later. By establishing the Kelty Patrick The film version Dennehy Foundation, she has raised over $5 mil- was directed by lion to fight depression-re- Tunisian-born lated suicide by young Abdellatif Kechiche. people. Ginny Dennehy’s 9781551525143 memoir Choosing Hope Art from Blue is (Greystone $19.95) is a tes- the Warmest Color tament to the resiliency of the human spirit. Ginny Dennehy 978-1-77100-034-5

5 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 featureview NON-FICTION BY JOHN MOORE Greely’s advice, “Go West, young American Exodus: Climate Change and the man,” while freed slaves moved Coming Flight for Survival by Giles Slade (New Society Publishers $19.95) north en masse. Deluded by tech- “THE AMERICANS ARE COMING!” nological superiority that enabled N AMERICAN EXODUS JOUR- conquest of the native inhabitants, nalist Giles Slade puts an Americans assumed that superior- Iironic Canadian spin on the ity extended to nature itself. role of Yankee patriot Paul Revere, “THE AMERICANS ARE COMING!” ✫ who warned colonists of the ap- RECENT ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE proaching British during the Revo- however, suggests that native em- lutionary War. If Slade is right, in Giles Slade is Paul Revere in reverse. pires—Maya, Toltec, Aztec and the decades to come Canada may Slade confines himself to the effects Inca—fell largely due to environ- be added to a list of nations invaded it will have on just one continent— mental factors and Slade makes a by the United States on some bo- ours. Simply put, global warming persuasive case that the United gus pretext required by U.S. “na- results in glacial and polar cap melt, States as we know it may follow tional interest.” They tried twice which means a rise in sea level, and them, not into oblivion, but into before, once after the Revolution- it also fast-forwards once infre- the amber stasis of history as the ary War and again during the War quent El Nino/La Nina oceanic lower half of their country becomes of 1812, mainly to irritate the Brit- weather effects which produce su- simply uninhabitable. For decades, ish. They got a swift kick back per-storms like Hurricane Katrina, it has been intellectually fashion- south both times, but this time they whose destruction of New Orleans able among Canadians to subscribe won’t be coming for political rea- was just a sample of what coastal to a conspiracy theory which holds sons or even for oil; they’ll be North American cities can expect that Americans, as an extension of coming for—and escaping from— frequently in the decades to come. their 19th century policy of Mani- water. ✫ fest Destiny, have worked behind Most of our planet is covered GILES SLADE’S PROGNOSTICATIONS the political scenes to make Canada by water, unfortunately not in a for North America’s emblematic a vast reservoir of water and wa- state we can drink or use to irrigate metropolis, New York, are espe- ter-generated electrical power to crops, but still the single most im- cially chilling. New York is embod- serve the U.S. portant factor that creates ied in its skyline, its sky-scraping Will they actually come to weather—determining how much towers, which is why the 9/11 ter- Canada, move in next door, marry we get to drink and how much we rorist attacks were so psychologi- Giles Slade our sisters or brothers, and change can grow. Yes, American Exodus is cally devastating to Americans. But our society and political system? about global warming and no mat- Slade observes that New York’s real Would it be so terrible if they did? ter how much you’ve enjoyed our Achilles’ heel is below sea level— professor Thomas Homer-Dixon Confining himself to the effects of recent heat wave summer or how in thousands of miles of under- The U.S.A. famously pointed out, the impos- climate change, Slade doesn’t ad- tired you are of hearing the argu- ground sewers. Forget disaster sibility of sustaining even subsist- dress these issues in American Exo- ments about this issue, if you’re movies showing a 60-foot compu- has invaded ence agriculture inexorably leads to dus, though he does sound a Canadian, you need to read it. ter-generated tsunami busting the Canada twice social and political collapse. warning about the social and civil Global warming is no longer a traffic lights on Wall Street. All it The upshot is that Americans unrest that resulted from the mi- subject for debate. As Slade points will take, Slade notes, is a slight already; next are going to be on the move once gration of refugees from the Dust out, both major political parties in ocean rise, a high tide and a named again, whether they like it or not, Bowl to California in the 1930s, the United States have now grudg- storm and flooded sewers will turn time they will driven by the irresistible whip of the subject of John Steinbeck’s ingly accepted it as a fact of policy the Big Apple into Typhus Beach thirst as the southern half of North novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Slade in the 21st century. Global warm- on Lake Cholera. The evacuation come for our America runs dry and its agri-busi- leaves those questions provoca- ing deniers, a handful of corporate of the Big Plague Pit will make the ness, (on which we also depend) tively hanging at the end of Ameri- flacks and their funded academic panic caused by Orson Welles’ fa- water. fails. After all, migration has been can Exodus, to be addressed, we toadies, are increasingly being left mous “invasion from Mars” radio the epic theme of North and South hope, in his next book. out of the discussion of an issue in program look like a schoolboy Mexico, Texas, California, and New America, the last continents to be 978-0865717497 which if you’re not part of the so- prank. Mexico are already experiencing colonized by the human species ✫ lution, you may end up being dis- But Slade isn’t overly con- water crises as a result of drought, during its hunter-gatherer phase ten GILES SLADE WILL GIVE A FREE solved in it. cerned about cities, though they are over-exploitation of the Colorado to twelve thousand years ago. talk and sign books, 7 to 8:30 pm Slade’s explication of what is ad- where governments put their res- River and the perilous drawing When Old World European nations on Thursday, November 14 at mittedly a complex issue is one of cue efforts because of the number down of the Oglalla Aquifer, the “re-discovered” the Americas, they Banyen Books & Sound, 3608 West the clearest and most succinct to of people (voters) affected. The se- ancient irreplaceable reserve of fos- migrated in messianic droves, seek- 4th Avenue, in Vancouver. date. Most books and articles about rious threat to the U.S., he points sil water under the Great Plains. ing El Dorado, The City of Gold, global warming get bogged down by out, is the relentless ‘desertification’ Like drought-ravaged Somalia, or the New Jerusalem, the City of John Moore has contributed book the ‘planetary’ scale of the subject. of the South and Midwest as tem- Mexico is on the verge of becoming God. After the American Civil War, reviews to various publications for American Exodus succeeds because peratures rise. Much of Northern a ‘failed state’ because, as Toronto immigrants followed Horace more than twenty years.

GABRIOLA ISLAND AUTHORS

These and other Gabriola titles available at the Enter Mourning: Murder in the We Are Born with Bog Tender Never Hug a Mugger A Memoir on Death, Chilcotin the Songs Inside Us Coming Home to on Quadra Island bookstore at Dementia & Coming Home Nature and Memory by Heather Menzies by Roy Innes Lives and Stories of by Sandy Frances Duncan Page’s Resort, First Nations People in B.C. by George Szanto The murder of a young & George Szanto Gabriola Island. A Globe & Mail “Best Book” of by Katherine Palmer Gordon the Year: Delves into Alzheim- Mountie in West Cariboo, While closely observing a Desperate to find out why er’s as care-giving daughter the son of a rancher, With a foreword by National nearby bog’s seasonal transfor- his son was nearly beaten grapples with denial and the threatens to ignite racial Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, mations, Szanto explores his to death on Quadra Island, losses diagnosis brings, deals conflicts simmering ever this inspirational title shatters parents’ escape from Hitler’s a father hires sleuths with siblings and finds new since five First Nations stereotypes by featuring candid Vienna, meeting his future wife Noel and Kyra of Islands ways of connecting with her men were hanged for stories of young Aboriginal and becoming a parent, as well Investigations International. mother until the end. murder in 1864. people in the 21st century. as adventures in Mexico. 9781926971483; $26.95 (hc) 978-1-55470-155-1 • $18.95 978-1-897126-69-1 • $19.95 978-1-55017-618-6 • $24.95 (pb) 978-192736-609-7 • $24.95 (pb) $14.95 (pb) • $9.99 (ebook) heathermenzies.net / BuschekBooks NeWest Press Harbour Publishing $14.99 (e-book) Brindle & Glass Touchwood Editions

6 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 PROMONTORY IS PLEASED TO WELCOME TWO VETERAN AUTHORS FOR THE FALL OF 2013:

Canadian best-selling author and media legend RAFE MAIR RADIO DAZE 25 YEARS OF WINNING AWARDS AND GETTING FIRED IN CANADIAN RADIO

978-1-927559-27-7 This is the story of the last of the broadcasters willing, nay eager, to hold authority's feet to the fire. Rafe Mair combined his experience as a lawyer and cabinet minister along with his deep love of his province and the City of Vancouver to build a radio career that angered many, especially politicians, but attracted huge audiences.

Hugo and Nebula Finalist, and winner of the Sidewise Award MARY ROSENBLUM SELF-PUBLISHING SUCCESS A HANDBOOK FOR NEW WRITERS

978-1-927559-22-2 Success in today’s new publishing world requires understanding – you have to know how it all works. Award-winning career author, Mary Rosenblum, uses her two decades of market experience and work with new authors to help you ride the wave of successful publishing today.

And introducing a talented BC author LAWRENCE VERIGIN DARK SEED NO-ONE KNOWS WHAT EVIL GROWS

978-1-927559-17-8 A disillusioned journalist and the grieving daughter of a murdered scientist uncover an immoral and destructive global plot by the largest developer of genetically engineered seed and its parent pharmaceutical conglomerate.

7 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 8 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 first nations SORENSON

MELIA

/ Beverley O’Neil, Tamara marathon Olding and PHOTOGRAPHY runner Merle PHOTO Alexander, LUCINDA PHOTO aboriginal

Lyana OF WILLIAMS lawyers on

HOLST Evan Tlesla Adams, Patrick,

their wedding doctor, playwright, actor filmmaker day. COURTESY CHERRYL PETER THE DETERMINATORS In keeping with the spirit of the Idle No More movement, a new anthology profiles sixteen aboriginal Canadians who are forging successful careers in mainstream society, while retaining their cultural roots.

“First Nations are the fastest Sampson and Kendra growing population in the Underwood from the Tsartlip country. There are thousands First Nation near Brentwood Bay, upon thousands of young dedicated to the preservation and First Nations people growing up passing on of SENCOTEN, one of today who, together with the kind thirty-two remaining indigenous of individuals whose stories are languages in B.C.. told in this book, represent a While the book is structured future for this country that is around the individual profiles and brighter than it has been for elder/mentor commentaries, there a long, long time.” are useful sections written by —Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, Gordon that provide additional his- National Chief of the Assembly torical and political ballast. of First Nations, from the Foreword The historic Tsawwassen We are Born with the Songs Inside Us: Treaty, negotiated by profile sub- Lives and Stories of First Nations People in British Columbia by Katherine Palmer ject, Kim Baird and her dedicated Gordon (Harbour Publishing $24.95) team, is summarized and Gordon BY CAROLINE WOODWARD profiles Gino Odjick, who now runs several successful businesses N 2004, WHEN KATHERINE and lives with his family on the Palmer Gordon was in- Musqueam First Nation reserve. terviewing Shawn Atleo I After quitting the NHL in 2002, for a BC Business magazine article, Odjick, a keen golfer, took on a their discussion turned to the re- management role at the Musqueam lentlessly negative portrayal of Golf and Learning Academy at aboriginal Canadians in the main- Musqueam’s Eaglequest Golf Club. stream press. Where were all the “In 2010, Musqueam was voted amazing people they both knew the most female-friendly course in existed? Canada,” he told journalist Jef Gordon’s sixteen profiles in We Choy. “We have a woman general are Born with the Songs Inside manager and assistant general man- Us have risen from that conversa- ager, and our head pro is also a tion. Stunning black and white por- woman. It’s the secret to our suc- traits underscore one of several cess. The women are the ones who resonant themes: People are finally have brought the life into this busi- seeing us now. ness. I’ve learned to just stay out Gordon introduces articulate, of the way and let them do their self-assured young First Nations thing!” people from B.C. who talk about He told Gordon, “I know what their personal journeys as artists a huge difference it makes to a com- and business innovators, doctors munity to have good businesses up and treaty negotiators, educators and running and employment for and athletes, community organiz- PHOTO their people, especially the young ers and stand-up comedians, law- Gino Odjick, former Vancouver Canuck, people. It just changes the whole yers and marine biologists, gay and with staff members at Musqueam Golf and Learning Academy, SAWCHUCK

life of that community for the bet- straight, proud parents, devoted recently voted the most female-friendly course in Canada. ter. It gives them hope… sons and daughters. The commen- LAURA “There’s this sign in a band of- taries of visionary mentors like doctor/actor/playwright Evan a wake-up call. They will read Touchie died of a heart attack at fice I saw once, and now it’s my Sophie Pierre of the East Tlesla Adams are widely- about social workers like William the age of thirty-three. Others will mantra: First Nations People Have Kootenay Ktunaxa First Nation known in society while others are Yoachim of the Snuneymuxw learn the pros and cons of living in Always Worked for a Living. The and Clarence Louie of the well-known in their own commu- Nation near Nanaimo, who is fac- isolated rural or hemmed-in urban world needs to realize that. The Osoyoos Band alone are worth the nity and professional circles. ing the legacy of depression, addic- reserves, or living and working off- world needs to understand that we price of the book. While not diminishing the harsh tion and abuse left by the residential reserve entirely. will look after Mother Earth prop- ✫ reality that many First Nations face school experience on previous gen- Here we meet remarkable edu- erly and keep it safe, but that if we THE PRESSURES OF COMMUNITY daily, this book profiles just some erations. cators, such as Governor-General’s see business opportunities as be- expectations have developed many of the many determined and skilled Along the way they will begin award winning history teacher and ing consistent with that and good strong shoulders and level heads. people on the frontlines of change. to comprehend the great loss to an program co-ordinator Anne for us we know what to do. We’ll Atleo, Vancouver Canucks fan fa- Readers with little exposure to entire community when Ucluelet Tenning in Penticton. Readers vourite Gino Odjick and medical B.C.’s indigenous peoples are in for band councillor and surfer Evan will also be introduced to Renée continued on page 10

9 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 first nations continued from page 9 digenous corporate and indigenous Lisa Webster-Gibson, of John Qap’u’luq Marston do it in the best way, the most en- business clients. Mohawk-Delaware-Scottish herit- and Sliammon/Powell River’s vironmentally sound way, but we’ll Tewanee Joseph is a age, works as an environmental as- Evan Tlesla Adams have al- use the opportunity to our best.” “lacrosse fanatic,” musician, key sessment technician. She also ways applied physical and mental Odjick is a lifelong reader and 2010 Olympics organizer and exhibits as a mixed-media artist and discipline to their great talent. “You spends many hours annually talk- businessperson with a Squamish/ is a spoken word performer. Merle can just be okay at what you do,” ing to students. His friend, fellow Maori heritage. Beverley Alexander, with familial ties to says Adams, “or you can be the pro hockey player, champion ama- O’Neil is a marathon runner, the north coast village of Klemtu kind of person who says, ‘Until PHOTO teur boxer and businessperson, Pe- stand-up comic and president of her and a law practice in North Vancou- the end of my days I will fight for ter Leech, is a post-secondary own communications company, of ver, is an accomplished, urban pro- the absolute best in myself and MCKINSTRY business education teacher. Ktunaxa and Irish descent. Trudy fessional. Troy Sebastian, of truly make a difference.’” GUY But if there is one indisputable Seasoned journalist / prize-winning Warner grew up in Grappler the Ktunaxa First Nation, already a ✫ link amongst each of the individu- author, Katherine Palmer Gordon Creek, a community of four houses, seasoned political candidate, is fin- GIVEN THE MOMENTUM OF THE IDLE als in this book, it begins with the describes herself as “a globe-trotting and took a daily speedboat to at- ishing his law degree at UVic. No More movement, this is a song that was born and nurtured half-French, half-English expatriate tend school in Bamfield. She dis- For Penny White, marine timely anthology. Yes, there are Kiwi and former lawyer who now inside each one, their early expo- lives on Gabriola Island.” covered her skill in communications biologist and photographer, a life- grim problems; too many children sure to their own languages and when she began an entry level job changing co-op program at Vancou- living in poverty, children born ways of being and thinking which 7 and beyond. In high school, he’d in the Port Alberni treaty office, ver Island University reconnected with foetal alcohol syndrome who are culturally specific to their peo- skip classes to go to the provincial earning the respect of many during her to Klemtu, the village of her will not achieve the professional ple, the land they are standing on archives in order to transcribe tapes the long process. grandparents. She is applying in- heights of the subjects of this and the water beside them. Invari- of his own language. digenous practices of ecosystem book. ably indigenous mentors recognized In a landmark 2007 study cited management, working with coastal But this book belongs in every their talents, shared old ways and by Gordon, it was discovered that First Nations, to harvest red sea- public library and high school li- new strategies and encouraged “suicide rates dropped to zero in weed commercially. brary, where the indigenous stu- them to brighter futures. communities in which at least half Lyana Patrick came to dent drop-out rate is nearly 60%. Mike Willy of Port Hardy, the members reported a conversa- Vancouver from Fraser Lake to ex- And it belongs in college and uni- the Cultural Preservation and Re- tional knowledge of their language cel in sciences on her way to med versity libraries to reaffirm the vitalization Co-ordinator for the ... In contrast, where there was lit- school. Honoured with Fullbright dreams and sense of purpose of Gwa’sala-Nakwaxda’xw K-7 tle or no connection to language, and Vanier scholarships, she is now students and their teachers, indig- NATIONS School, still vividly recalls his child- the suicide rate rose to six times a filmmaker earning a Ph.D. in enous and otherwise. 978-1550176186 FIRST hood in isolated Kingcome Inlet higher than the national average.” planning and mental health. OF where he sang, spoke and drummed Everyone in We are Born with Internationally-exhibited Caroline Woodward writes and with elders and how the “song in- Chemainus/Ladysmith carver

the Songs Inside Us has mastered ASSEMBLY works as a lighthouse keeper near

OF side us”—the vital connections to the subtleties of communicating be- Tofino where she is a big fan of Shawn Atleo’s Nuu-chah- language and culture—kept him tween generations, with parents nulth name, A-In-Chut, Long Beach Radio’s Nuu-chah-nulth COURTESY grounded when he was sent off to from different cultural and linguis- means “everyone ‘Word of the Day’ and APTN TV.

attend a Victoria school from Grade tic backgrounds and with non-in- PHOTO depends on you.” www.carolinewoodward.ca

10 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 first nations

IT WASN’T PLANNED—BUT THE NEW personal identity obliterated. These memoir by Chief Bev Sellars re- were replaced by indoctrination counting abuse at the St. Joseph’s into the rituals of the Catholic Residential School has been released Church. They learned Latin by fol- coincidentally with the proceedings lowing the Catholic mass, although of the major Truth & Reconciliation LOOKING OUT the meaning was not explained. hearings and events around the They prayed so long and often, Lower Mainland, September 18-21. kneeling on hard floors, that some sustained permanent damage. Not AS A FOLLOW-UP TO HER REVIEW surprisingly, Sellars eventually lost of a biography of First Nations ma- FROM NUMBER ONE all respect for organized religion, triarch Jane Cook of Alert Bay, coming to see it as tool by which Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las; men in power exerted control over Jane Constance Cook and the Poli- How Bev Sellars survived and thrived. people. tics of Memory, Church, and Cus- The frequent bedwetting, symp- tom by Leslie A. Robertson and path towards healing has Nation in Williams Lake, on Aboriginal, Inuit and Metis chil- tomatic of the children’s terror, was, Kwagu’l Gixsam Clan, here Joan culminated in the first British Columbia since dren in residential schools during like every other infraction except Givner examines the life story of book to be written by 1987. The former adviser their formative years. breathing, punishable by flogging Bev Sellars, chief of the Xat’sull someone who survived for the B.C. Treaty Com- Chief Bev Sellars bears witness with a leather strap cut from a con- (Soda Creek) First Nation in St. Joseph’s school. mission has a history de- to the atrocities of the residential veyor belt. Since a feature of op- Williams Lake. “Soon after we ar- gree from the University schools, drawing on her training as pressive regimes is their ability to rived at residential Joan of Victoria and a law de- a historian and a lawyer, but most They Called Me Number One: Secrets and cause division and enmity among Survival at an Indian Residential School school,” she writes, “we gree from the University of all on the authority of her per- GIVNER their victims, bullying and ridicule by Bev Sellars (Talonbooks $19.95) were given a number that of British Columbia. sonal experience. She describes life added to the misery. Fights were would become our identity. I be- ✫ at the mission from the moment she T AGE FIVE, BEV SELLARS common. came Number 1 on the girls’ side. IN THEY CALLED ME NUMBER ONE, and others were rounded up by was isolated for two Sellars notes that “in a world Although the other kids all contin- we learn that children taken from priests, some loaded into cattle years at the Coqualeetza where compassion was almost non- A ued to call me by name, ‘Bev their parents and forced to attend trucks, and delivered to their prison. Indian Turberculosis Hospital in existent, we remembered even the Sellars’ ceased to exist for most of St Joseph’s Mission in the Cariboo, On arrival, they were identified Sardis, British Columbia, nearly six smallest bit of kindness.” The the nuns, priests and staff. Instead some as young as five years old, by numbers rather than names, their hours’ drive from home. She later continued on page 12 they would say, ‘Number 1, come were doused with DDT, a carcino- language and customs outlawed, all endured far worse isolation from her here’ or ‘I want these girls in my genic pesticide especially danger- vestiges of racial and family for ten months each year in office; Numbers 1, 14, 72 and 105’ ous in the pre-puberty years. This the notorious St. Joseph’s Residen- or ‘Number 1, say the second dec- spraying with a toxic chemical is tial School in Williams Lake where ade of the rosary.’ an apt metaphor for the poison- both her grandmother and mother “Ninety or more years after she ous effect of the depriva- had been incarcerated before her. left St. Joseph’s Mission, my grand- tions, beatings and Sellars was forced to attend the mother still remembered her rapes inflicted Catholic-run school in the 1960s number — 27 — and 28 — the when the principal was Father number assigned to her sister, Hubert O’Connor. As Bishop Annie. My mom remembers her O’Connor, he was convicted in number was 71. Thankfully, our 1996 of committing rape and inde- numbers were not tattooed on our cent assault on two young aborigi- skin.” nal women during his time as a Bev Sellars has been priest at St. Joseph’s. chief of the Xat’sull Bev Sellars’ memoir They (Soda Creek) First Called Me Number One: Se- crets and Survival at an Indian Residential School describes St. Joseph’s and O’Connor, as well as the hunger, forced labour and beat- ings with a leather strap that were common in the school. Her lifelong

Bev Sellars chief of the Xat’sull PHOTO (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, has been on the BC Bestsellers List for WILLIAMS months with They Called Me Number One. KEVIN

11 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 first nations continued from page 11 sion. Only one of many freezing.” Another from business- instances of kindness often came destroyed lives. men in Williams Lake complains that from the lay workers employed at While the main narra- in paying their workers, they the institution. One hero was Pat tive makes a strong per- couldn’t compete with the free la- Joyce, hired as head cook in 1966. sonal impact, the notes to bour at the mission, where the chil- Previously the children had each chapter add impor- dren produced vegetables, harnesses

watched and smelled good food STAMM tant legal and historical and tack. No complaints about the

REIN

rolled into the nuns’ and priests’ information. Bev Sellars use of child labour apparently. OF dining room, while they were describes the Commission For an assessment of the long- served “garbage” that lead to out- of Inquiry on the Ad- term effects of trauma, she turns to COURTESY breaks of food poisoning. After / equacy of Compensation history, citing a report on the ef-

Joyce insisted on serving the same PHOTO ($1.6 million) paid to fect of years of bubonic plagues and food to everyone, the children Donald Marshall Jr., the social disruptions in Medieval Eu- looked forward to mealtimes. The Mi’maq Indian, wrongly rope. It estimates that social recov- BUCHANAN

nuns, meanwhile, took the oppor- KEN accused and jailed for ery and cultural healing generally tunity to preach that “gluttony is a PHOTO POSTCARD CIRCA 1965: “Cariboo Indian Girls’ Pipe Band eleven years. Noting its relevance start forty years after the traumatic sin.” outside St. Joseph’s Mission. The door with the big cross at the front of the to the compensation paid for nine events end. Aboriginal communities When Sellars injured herself in school building is where Father O’Connor (the principal) and other priests years of forced imprisonment in a had their populations wiped out by and brothers would stand and watch the kids. My sister Jean was part of the the playroom and was unable to pipe band and is somewhere in this picture. My sister Dolly was also part of residential school, she quotes Pro- imported diseases, they suffered move, the nuns ordered two girls the band but she is not shown.” — Bev Sellars fessor H. Archibald Kaiser’s con- expulsion from their homelands, to carry her to the dormitory. Later clusions about the social and loss of economic self-sufficiency as she cried out in pain on her way Another read daily chapters from dresses and there was the ritual flog- psychological effects of such im- and the forced abduction and brain- to the bathroom, it was a mainte- Rin Tin Tin, The Hardy Boys and ging in front of the other students. prisonment: washing of their children. In nance man, Bill O’ Donovan, who Nancy Drew. A Miss Helen from The saddest story in the book “The longer this distorting ex- Sellars’case alone, she is a third gen- ran to notify Father O’ Connor, the Vancouver told stories of going to involves Sellars’ brother, Bobby, perience of prison goes on, the less eration survivor of St. Joseph’s principal. He summoned an ambu- school from home and doing home- who hid away in a cabin to avoid likely a person can ever be whole Mission. lance to take her to the hospital. work in her own room. “It was like going back to school in September. again. Especially for the individual When St. Joseph’s closed in the Long afterwards when O’ Connor, reading a book. She took you to a She remembers watching him imprisoned as a youth, the chances 1980s, former students descended then a bishop, was charged with place where good things hap- brought in after he was captured, of eventual happy integration into on the building and reduced it to rape and indecent assault, this same pened.” Sadly, the good teachers his head hung down. In retrospect, the community must be very slim.” rubble. If only the destruction of Bill O’ Donovan came forward to did not stay long. she realizes that she was witness- The author’s research in the ar- all the lives that took place there testify against him on behalf of the There were always some brave ing a broken spirit. He died at the chives of the Department of Indian could have been wiped out so students. children who were driven by des- age of eighteen, found in a creek at Affairs also yields some telling swiftly. 978-0-88922-741-5 Teachers, employed from out- peration to run away, risking sa- the bottom of a cliff. Years later, facts. A letter from her mother’s side the order, also provided sol- distic punishments when they were she discovered from reading a study time at the institution reveals that Joan Givner of Mill Bay has a se- ace. One kept books in the caught. Girls had their heads of residential schools, that he had the temperature in the dormitory quel to her YA novel A Girl Called cloakroom to lend to the students. shaved, boys had to wear girls’ been sexually abused at the mis- at night was “a few degrees below Tennyson forthcoming in 2014.

12 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 first nations

Dane-zaa Chief Where Happiness Dwells: A History of the ple from Prophet River. Charlie Dane-zaa First Nations by Robin Norman Davis, Yahey says on one of the record- Ridington & Jillian Ridington, in Jillian Ridington, collaboration with Elders of the Dane-zaa ings, “I am talking to this white First Nations (UBC Press $95) Dr. Robin Ridington and Dr. David man and his tape recorder, but Suzuki at the book through this the world will listen VENTUALLY SOME- launch for Where to my voice.” one will have the Happiness Dwells The couple acknowledge the in Fort St. John importance of the Doig River Dic- Etemerity to write a tionary by Marshall Holdstock book about the white peo- and Jean Holdstock, along with linguists Patrick Moore and Julia ple who have heroically as- Miller, for providing a proper or- sisted the First Nations of thography of Dane-zaa words. Credit is clearly accorded to their B.C. to recover their cul- most vital collaborators, particu- larly Billy Attachie, who obtained tures, languages and land. training in linguistic transcription

PHOTO during his work with Marshall and

Starting with Scotsman James Teit, who met Franz Boas in 1894, Jean Holdstock.

CHARNEY Living contributors also include

this politically incorrect “white he- roes” list would certainly include Tommy Attachie, Gerry Attachie, early knowledge gatherers such as CHASE May Dominic Apsassin, Sam Charles Hill-Tout, followed by Acko, Margaret Dominic Davis, anthropologist Wilson Duff, who Madeline Sagónáá Davis, and Jack committed suicide after testifying Askoty. in the Calder Case (1973) on Abo- 50 YEARS OF LISTENING Others who have “gone on the riginal title claims in northwestern trail to heaven” include Margaret B.C., lawyer Tom Berger, who ar- THE RIDINGTONS & THE DANE-ZAA Attachie, Albert Askoty, Alice gued it and ultimately paved the Askoty, Sally Takola Makadahay, way for the Nisga’a Accord, and lay readers and other First Nations zaa names in a North West Com- Doig River and Blueberry River John Davis, Mary (Daeda) Davis under-recognized linguists such as can have access to Dane-zaa knowl- pany post journal in 1799. Catho- First Nations in 1977. Former chief Dominic, Margie Wolf and Mar- Jay Powell, Ronald Beaumont edge.” lic priests arrived in 1859 but didn’t Tommy Attachie told the guerite Yahey Davis. and John Enrico. And Robin and In Dane-zaa Záágé or Beaver, live with the people. According to Ridingtons that white people “For us,” say the Ridingtons, Jillian Ridington. an Athapaskan language, the term the foreword to Where Happiness named the Doig River for a Scot- “this book is more than a collabo- ✫ Dane-zaa simply means “real peo- Dwells, “Many Dane-zaa, espe- tish trapper named Fred Doig. ration ethnography. It is a celebra- tion and fulfillment of fifty years ROBIN RIDINGTON FIRST VISITED THE ple.” Their elders maintain heaven cially the women, had little contact A large part of the book takes Fort St. John Band (now called is like Su Na chii k’chige, meaning with the fur traders and rarely en- the form of stories told by Dane- of friendship.” 9780774822954 Dane-zaa) in the Peace River region the summer gathering place where zaa elders and recorded in 1959. He returned in 1965-66 and people from different bands met to on tape, minidisc, and for shorter visits in the late 1960s sing and dance and renew their re- video. “We recorded most FROM RIDINGTON with his first wife, Antonia (now lationships. The term Su Na chii of the stories in this book Antonia Mills), and their son, Eric, k’chige translates as “the place in Dane-zaa Záágé,” says TO BILLINGTON who was called Aballi by the Dane- where happiness dwells.” Hence Jillian Ridington. “In the LONG THE LINES OF ROBIN AND Jillian Ridington, zaa. Their daughter, Amber, was former chief Gerry Attachie sug- PHOTO 1960s, Robin used two Keith born in Dane-zaa territory in 1969. gested to the Ridingtons that tape recorders. He played ABillington has pursued a After Ridington remarried in Where Happiness Dwells would the original story as told similar passion for First Nations eth-

RIDDINGTON nography by spending many years 1976, he revisited the area with his be a suitable title. in Beaver on one recorder with bands in the north, first as a second wife Jillian in 1978, the ✫ ROBIN and recorded the transla- nurse and later as a band manager same year he released his first book DANE-ZAA FAMILIES HAVE LIVED Charlie Yahey, with his Dreamer’s drum, 1968 tion on the other. We now for the Sekani Band in Fort Ware. on the Dane-zaa, Swan People: A where the Peace River flows, use a computer to play Billington’s third book about his Study of the Dunne-za Prophet through what is now northeastern countered white people until the digital audio files and transcribe the experiences, Tse-loh-ne (The Peo- Dance. After fifty years of anthro- B.C. and northwestern Alberta, for building of the Alaska Highway in translations directly into a word- ple at the End of the Rocks): Jour- pological study and friendship, the millennia. The first contact with Eu- 1942. processing program.” ney Down the Davie Trail (Caitlin $22.95), describes a 25-day, 460- Ridington’s have produced a col- ropeans was made just over two “The fathers and mothers of Many Dane-zaa now embrace kilometre traditional Sekani trek laborative history of the Dane- centuries ago, when Peter Pond es- contemporary Doig elders spoke evangelical Christianity, yet knowl- along the Aatse Davie Trail using zaa First Nations, Where tablished Fort Vermilion in 1788 little or no English, had no driver’s edge through dreaming continues to pack dogs. They brought little food, Happiness Dwells: A History of and when Mackenzie passed licences and lived most of their lives be an important way of making relying instead on what they could the Dane-zaa First Nations, one through their land in 1793. A year without a telephone, electricity, or contact with the spirits of animals hunt or gather. of the most significant and in-depth later, fur traders arrived, establish- indoor plumbing. No Dane-zaa chil- and human ancestors. Robin The hike from Lower Post to Fort works of B.C. ethnology. ing the earliest fur trade post in dren attended school until 1950.” Ridington recorded the band’s last Ware includes grizzlies, cold, star- vation, stick gambling and injury. “We wrote this book so future British Columbia, at Rocky Moun- Where Happinesss Dwells fo- Dreamer, Charlie Yahey, telling The nomadic Sekani live approxi- generations of Dane-zaa can know tain Fort (not far from the present cuses on the people who were the Dane-zaa creation story in Au- mately 1,600 kilometres north of and understand their heritage,” says site of Fort St. John). known as the Fort St. John Beaver gust of 1965 when he visited the Prince George in the Rocky Moun- Jillian Ridington, “and so interested Fur traders first recorded Dane- Band until they divided into the Halfway River Reserve with peo- tain Trench. 978-1-894759-88-5

FICTION ESSAYS CHILDREN

N E Greg Younging, editor Trans Publishing the Indigenous M Cherie Dimaline Greg Younging Larry Loyie Voice Since 1981 I S S FALL 2013 I O NEW N S RELEASES New Essays on Traditional Knowledge “Ruby Bloom is the smartest, most Leading Indigenous theorists explore Norma Fleck Award winner Larry Loyie’s resilient and most beautiful character ever new theoretical approaches to traditional charming stories of 1940’s Cree family life. knowledge at a time of global cultural and Green Mountain Rd., Lot 45 RR#2, Site 50, Comp. 8 created in Indian Country” Ages 7 - 11. Penticton, B.C. Canada V2A 6J7 | 250.493.7181 —Lee Maracle environmental crisis. 978-1-926886-31-2 978-1-926886-32-9 978-1-926886-18-3 www.theytus.com $18.95 CDN | $18.95 USD $22.95 cdn | $22.95 usd $14.95 cdn | $14.95 usd

13 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 14 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 reviews HISTORY Chairing a Meeting: The Quick & Essential Guide by Kevin Paul Thanked by • Quickly and easily learn Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill, the rules of order used to honoured by honoured by run formal meetings. Vaclav Havel, the émigré Vladimir • A simple guide written for Krajina was a war people who have no expe- hero who became rience chairing a meeting. thethe fatherfather ofof B.C.’sB.C.’s • Includes useful tables, Ecological charts, checklists, and a Reserve system sample meeting agenda. forfor forestry.forestry. $16.95 Paperback

Creating a Happy Retirement - Eldercare Series by Ronald W. Richardson and Lois A. Richardson • Forget about the financial aspects of planning your retirement, learn to plan your life and how you want to spend your time! • This workbook includes a series of exercises designed to help identify what’s most important to you in preparation for HEROISMHEROISM your golden years. $14.95 Paperback + IN WAR AND WOOD Download Kit BY GREG ANTLE was not only a professor of botany in pre- Supporting Parents with Alzheimer’s war Czechoslovakia but also fought alongside Vladimir Krajina: World War II Hero and Ecology Eldercare Series friends against the German occupation as a Pioneer by Jan Drabek (Ronsdale Press $21.95) by Tanya Lee Howe member of the Czech resistance. FIRST GLIMPSED VLADIMIR KRAJINA Krajina lived through the execution of some • Learn how to use a thirty years ago when he stood, some of these friends — as well as his brother — at memory book to help your I what unsteadily, and maybe a little the hands of the Gestapo, and was separated parent. stooped, to dissect a forester who was giving from his beloved wife, Marie, for years (two • Figure out the right time the annual MacMillan Lecture in the old H.R. of which she spent in the Ravensbruck con- to intervene. MacMillan forestry building at the Univer- centration camp). sity of British Columbia. I had absolutely no In post-war Czechoslovakia, Krajina be- • Understand all the options idea who was standing formally and speaking came an active member of a democratic Czech available to you and your in perfect English, questioning the precepts political party, living among a people steadily parents. of the entire lecture with regard to stated and undermined by Soviet operators who tortured, $19.95 Paperback + achieved reforestation results. I wish I had imprisoned, terrorized and executed political Download Kit known. adversaries. Jan Drabek’s book, Vladimir Krajina: In 1948, along with his wife, mother-in- World War II Hero and Ecology Pioneer law, his teenage daughter and infant son, Krajina Marketing Your Service has filled the gaps in my own (and, I suspect, fled their homeland for the safety of the United by Douglas Gray many others’) knowledge of this determined, Kingdom and eventually Canada. • Effectively position, price and stubborn, intelligent and brave individual. I think that my life and the lives of many promote your service. To myself and many, many undergraduate of the students around me in that early 1980s and graduate forestry students, Krajina was lecture hall would have been changed, per- • Learn the keys to dynamic the icon of ecological knowledge and system- haps forever, if we had known the story of service marketing. atic land-based ecological classification. this man’s previous life. Although Krajina was • Discover new clients, under- Drabek articulates his importance to forestry a man known in B.C. for an almost religious stand your competition, and here in the second half of the book. Together fervor of devotion to sound ecological land implement an action plan! with some of his most prominent students, management principles, he was also a man Karel Klinka and Hamish Kimmins among who had been a part of — and survived — $24.95 Paperback them, Krajina definitively wrote the book of one of the most tumultuous and violent dec- ecological classification, indicator plant spe- ades of human history. Drabek refers to BC Do Your Own Divorce Kit cies and prescriptive reforestation practice for Krajina’s generation as the “Greatest Genera- by Alison Sawyer British Columbia. In addition, Krajina’s work tion,” people who lived through the Great to establish the Ecological Reserves program Depression and survived World War II. • UPDATED Sept 2013 in British Columbia was, and remains, a hugely As a middle-aged parent and participant • Do it yourself, no lawyer important part of our natural heritage and sci- in the very global community of the “wood required. entific database. business” I reflect that given today’s many • Save hundres of dollars in But what is not so well-known is the ear- regional conflicts and great economic and po- legal fees. lier part of Krajina’s story —ably captured litical uncertainties, we as a people engaged in by Drabek—of Krajina’s life and family be- many layers of societal governance require the • It’s 100% legal and easy! fore he arrived in Vancouver in 1949 as a po- stamina, courage and integrity of a “Great $39.95 Guide + Forms on litical refugee. He came from the recently Generation” in order to move forward and CD-ROM subjugated country of Czechoslovakia, a coun- continue to celebrate the good in our world. try that was released from Nazi occupation 978-155380-147-4 only four years previously, but was quickly www.self-counsel.com immersed in what has been shown to be an Greg Antle is a hardwood specialist in Fort 1-800-663-3007 equally sinister and criminal occupation by Langley. This review was first published in Soviet Russia. Drabek chronicles how Krajina B.C. History, Spring 2013, Vol. 46 No. 1

15 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 reviews MEMOIR

scene and Victoria’s Oak Bay was experiences had a powerful influ- famous for expats living “behind ence on his thinking about the natu- STREAMS OF the tweed curtain.” Writer, conser- ral world; he later taught at vationist and angler Roderick universities in the U.K. and Aus- Haig-Brown lived just to the north tralia and helped set up environ- CONSCIOUSNESS at Campbell River; others drawn mental policy in British Columbia. to the Cowichan wilderness in- Grandson Ned arrives on the Tony Taylor hooks up with a grandson cluded an Irish doctor who served scene about halfway through the and catches redemption with the British army named Dick book. The eager and curious eight- Stoker, brother of Dracula author year-old is enthralled by the size

Fishing the River of Time the flow of time. As Mark Bram Stoker. of the logs in their rented cabin. The by Tony Taylor Forsythe makes clear in Rather than meeting more Eng- roaring spring freshet is too high (Greystone Books $19.95) his review, it was inspired lishmen, Taylor was more interested for any real fishing, so the two of WHETHER SCALING PEAKS IN by Taylor’s return to in climbing mountains or getting to them do much walking, talking and Cowichan Lake where the Alps or working as a Tony know local natives like Big Arthur, observing along the river, which geologist in Greenland he’d lived in an abandoned Taylor a Nitinat fisherman with a killer in- Taylor contends is what fishing is and the Canadian Arctic, Mark cabin at the end of a failed stinct who knew where all the best really about. Tony Taylor has experi- marriage in 1968. ing on the Cowichan when the river fishing spots were—if you could Ned agrees: “You know, enced his share of remote FORSYTHE ✫ ran thick with all five salmon spe- keep up with him in the woods. Grandpa, when we do get a fish, places, leading him to comment at ORTY YEARS AFTER HIS cies, and the logging of old growth Taylor also wrote a local news- because we know how hard it is, it the outset of his memoir. marriage collapsed, Douglas fir, spruce and cedar was paper column under a pen-name, will be even more exciting.” “Life is an adventure searching F Tony Taylor has flown to the mainstay of the local economy. ostensibly about fishing and hunt- As all geologists know, conti- for answers. They are best looked B.C. from his home in Australia “The men who understood the ing, but it was really more about nents drift slowly across oceans for in remote places where civiliza- (feeling guilty about his carbon foot- situation best were the fallers—the his evolving values around conser- and time. Taylor’s continental drift tion hasn’t taken hold.” print trailing behind) to finally meet men who cut the trees. I remember vation—a dirty word at the time. from Australia to Canada was less Having been closely connected his eight-year-old grandson Ned. talking to Swanson, the giant Taylor’s stories, observations ground-breaking but no less pro- to landscape for most of his profes- His relationship with his own son Swede, who cut down the biggest and philosophy meander and merge found, forging a relationship with a sional life, Taylor has now fashioned fizzled with the end of his first trees of all... He told me sometimes like a braided river. We learn why boy and reuniting with his past. a memoir to take its place alongside Drawn by B.C.’s geologically such wilderness-inspired classics as marriage, so he’s now hoping for a he couldn’t bear to think about the old silk fishing lines are superior, Gilean Douglas’ River for my second chance to “pull the beauti- way he earned his living and I was we experience encounters with youthful rivers, granite and Sidewalk and Eric Collier’s Three ful from the invisible” by going fish- staggered to see a tear appear in the wolverines, we stare down a cou- batholiths, Tony Taylor’s return to Against the Wilderness, as well as ing with Ned. corner of his eye.” gar and we consider the arrogance the B.C. wilderness “turned out to George Szanto’s new Bog Tender. While waiting for Ned to arrive Originally from Britain, Taylor of re-stocking wild rivers with be the best thing I ever did.” Written at age 80, Taylor’s rec- at a cabin on Cowichan Lake, saw that many English people had hatchery-raised fish. 978-1771000574 ollections “from the bush,” Fish- Taylor’s memories and stories bub- preceded him on southern Vancou- Taylor also takes a solo sailing ing the River of Time, is chiefly ble to the surface from deep ver Island. The nearby town of expedition up the B.C. coast to learn Mark Forsythe is host of CBC concerned with memory, nature and springs. He recounts two years liv- Duncan had its own lawn tennis more about salmon. All of these radio’s Almanac.

THE SIMPLYRAW UNIVERSAL HUNKS KITCHEN David L. Chapman w. Natasha Kyssa Douglas Brown HOT Gluten free and (mostly) A lively, wide-ranging raw recipes for healthy visual history of muscular living. “The SimplyRaw men from around the world. Kitchen is simply fabulous!” —Janet Podleski 978-1-55152-509-9; PULP $29.95 list 978-1-55152-505-1; $21.95

This fall VANCOUVER WAS BLUE IS THE AWESOME WARMEST COLOR Lani Russwurm Julie Maroh An entertaining collection of The controversial graphic stories and images from Van- novel, adapted into the ARSENAL PULP couver’s pre-gentrification Palme d’Or-winning film to past, produced in conjunction be released this fall. PRESS with Vancouver Is Awesome. 978-1-55152-514-3; $19.95 978-1-55152-525-9; arsenalpulp.com $24.95 list READ OUR BLOG: arsenalia.com

ANATOMY OF A GIRL THE TRIAL OF POPE GANG BENEDICT Ashley Little Daniel Gawthrop An unnerving novel about A powerful indictment a girl gang in Vancouver. of Pope Benedict and a “Grabs you by the larynx cautionary assessment and does not let go.” of the Catholic Church’s a —Cathleen With future. 978-1-55152-529-7; 978-1-55152-527-3; $15.95 $16.95 list

16 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 WHERE’S WIGRUM?

Wigrum Daniel Canty Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei It’s October 1944. During a brief respite from the aerial bombardment of London, Sebastian Wigrum leaves his small flat and disappears into the fog for a walk in the Unreal City. This is our first, and last, encounter with the enigmatic man we come to discover decades later through the more than one hundred everyday objects he has left behind. Wigrum’s bequest is a meticulously catalogued collection of ordinary items that once belonged to writers, artists, and inventors. Moving through the inventory, artifact to artifact, story to story, we become immersed in a dreamlike narrative bricolage determined as much by the objects’ museological presentation as by the tender and idiosyncratic mania of Wigrum’s impulse to collect them. Introducing readers to a new form of fiction – an inventory! – Wigrum explores the limits of the postmodern novel. Having absorbed the logic of lists and the principles of classification systems, the Wigrumian narrative teeters on the boundary between fact and fiction, on the uncertain edge of the real and the unreal. A book for both the bibliophile and design lover, Wigrum appeals to the latent collector in all of us. $14.95 / 200 pp / Fiction / 978-0-88922-778-1

Ali & Ali Internodes The Place of Scraps The (Post) Mistress The Deportation Hearings Ken Belford Jordan Abel Tomson Highway Camyar Chai The poetic language in Internodes Jordan Abel’s The Place of Scraps Marie-Louise Painchaud has worked Guillermo Verdecchia traverses decades at the speed of a explores the relationship between First for thirty-one years as postmistress in Marcus Youssef search query. In this twenty-first-century Nations cultures and ethnography. Lovely, Ontario, a franco phone village In this sequel to the hilarious evolution of Marshall McLuhan’s coinage Marius Barbeau – an early-twentieth- where she has come to know the lives Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, that “the medium is the message,” century ethnographer who studied of everyone in town and vicariously Chai, Verdecchia, and Youssef turn Belford’s text takes into account the First Nations cultures, including Abel’s experience their loves, losses, and their idiosyncratic brand of post-identity nature of viral marketing and the impact ancestral Nisga’a Nation – believed personal dramas. The (Post) Mistress satire to new global realities – the world of similar forms of social “trending” on that First Nations cultures were about is a rollicking, emotional rollercoaster economy is in crisis, the U.S. president’s our lives and our language, challenging to disappear completely. Through ride in the form of a one-woman middle name is Hussein, and, in linearity and order. poetic erasure techniques, Abel musical, with elements of jazz, Berlin Canada, the G20 summit imposes carves out new and unexpected cabaret, French café music, Brazilian $16.95 / 96 pp / Poetry martial law on Toronto’s downtown core. 978-0-88922-792-7 understandings of Barbeau’s writing. samba, and Argentinean tango. $16.95 / 96 pp / Drama $19.95 / 272 pp / Poetry $16.95 / 96 pp / Drama 978-0-88922-782-8 978-0-88922-788-0 978-0-88922-780-4

Rogue Cells / Singed Wings The Vestiges The Visual Laboratory of Carbon Harbour Lola Lemire Tostevin Jeff Derksen Robert Lepage Garry Thomas Morse Singed Wings peers into the interior The Vestiges moves across the Ludovic Fouquet world of French sculptor Camille geography of the present, linking Translated by Rhonda Mullins Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour resumes Claudel, whose intimate understanding historical moments when quarters of The Chaos! Quincunx novel series and Robert Lepage’s work has broken of her subjects, from young girl to old cities were squatted, when social presents two ironically dystopic visions barriers in theatre, expanding the woman, captured quite a different power change boiled over, and the future of the speculative future: a “First” nation genre into other forms of expression, than that of her lover, Auguste Rodin. was up for grabs. Covering a wide at war with the mysterious territory such as photography, cinema, and Responding to the creative vitality of terrain of research, The Vestiges mine Nutella amid terrorism based in video. In The Visual Laboratory of women artists from Claudel to Frida Kahlo, various texts, from the Craigslist Shakespearian texts, and a “green” Robert Lepage, Ludovic Fouquet Betty Goodwin, and Louise Bourgeois, “auto parts” section to Jane Jacobs, world of aquaculture, bio-material, and investigates Lepage’s body of work, poet Lola Lemire Tostevin finds the from Marx to Marcuse, and from grim labour conditions, where hardcore from 1979 to the present, identifying inspiration and determination to move her historical accounts of cities to gamers pay for “pollution fantasies” themes and exploring practices that own art forward. real-estate promotions. with carbon credits. mark him as one of the most highly $16.95 / 120 pp / Poetry $16.95 / 128 pp / Poetry original creators today. $16.95 / 448 pp / Fiction 978-0-88922-790-3 978-0-88922-794-1 978-0-88922-776-7 $24.95 / 384 pp / Theatre; Stagecraft 978-0-88922-774-3

17 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 reviews MEMOIR

wrinkled wedding dress on her TRICK-OR-TREATING wedding day because the generator stops working and it can’t be ironed. Humility is manifest in the BY TROLLER painstaking, 20-year process of building a permanent settlement, Yvonne Maximchuk’s memoir of living coming home empty-handed after off the grid at Echo Bay also describes a failed fishing expedition or falling ill at sea and having to be taken to rowing to school, jellyfish stings and a hospital, as well as losing two wrinkled wedding dress. friends to a plane crash in dense fog. BY JEANIE KEOGH seasons later, she was able to share Maximchuk also describes de- authorship with him for her first pleting fish stocks, the birth of fish Drawn to Sea: Paintbrush to Chainsaw: Carving Out a Life on BC’s Rugged book, Full Moon, Flood Tide (Har- farms, dwindling local populations Raincoast by Yvonne Maximchuk (Caitlin Press $24.95) bour 2003), shortlisted for the Bill due to job losses and a subsequent Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award. lack of people to man the volun- S A SINGLE MOTHER OF Now Yvonne Maximchuk’s Echo teer-run salmon hatchery—obvi- two, living as a painter Bay follow-up memoir, Drawn to ated by the pleasures of canning Yvonne Maximchuk often ties her boat to bull kelp to hold it in position Aand potter in White Sea: Paintbrush to Chainsaw: while she paints on location in her 16-foot speedboat the Sea Rose. parties, Halloween trick-or-treating Rock, Yvonne Maximchuk Carving Out a Life on BC’s Rug- by troller, all-you-can-eat crab wasn’t expecting to fall in love with ged Raincoast describes living on a rowing her children to the one-room how to pack salmon on ice and cure Christmas dinners and the all-im- Albert Munro, a crab fisherman boat with Albert, a crab fisherman schoolhouse, teaching Billy Proctor jellyfish stings and where to find portant dependence on one’s neigh- who was fishing the waters of and her lover of eight years, as well how to write while at sea, and wak- the best inlets and coves to shore bours. Boundary Bay. But off she went as her adventures with marine bi- ing up to find otters sunning them- up for a leisurely lunch break. Maximchuk and her husband with her kids to live with Albert, ologist and anti-fish farming activist selves on the front deck of her home. Maximchuk shares secret tricks Albert have since built their own off the grid, in Echo Bay, an out- Alexandra Morton, for whom she As the title suggests, and superstitions of the fishing home and art retreat on the shore post of sympathetic do-it- collected sea lion fecal samples. Maximchuk learned to divide her trade and describes how “bushed” of Gilford Island, located due east yourselfers in the Broughton She also describes further time between using a chainsaw to neighbours call one another over of Port McNeil on Vancouver Is- Archipelago, where she soon met salmon fishing adventures with clear land to build a house and us- VHF radio, but Drawn To Sea is land. Guests can fly from Port Billy Proctor, a BC coastal icon Proctor in Haida Gwaii and her art- ing a paintbrush to capture her sur- largely about the zany absurdity McNeil and stay at their SeaRose and fisherman. ists’ dates with Kayak Bill, an ec- roundings. Along the way we learn of being emotionally rooted to a Studio near Billy’s Museum and Intrigued by Proctor’s life on the centric painter who earned his that float house residents put their challenging life on water. Echo Bay. 978-1-927575-03-1 sea, Maximchuk asked to join him nickname from living out of his house on land or onto a float by Maximchuk “battens down the as he fished for chinook and kayak year-round. Day-in-the-life “yarding” them, how to navigate hatches” in a fierce storm in her flan- Jeanie Keogh is a journalism sockeye, ling cod and tuna. Eight anecdotes round out the story— through fishing boat traffic jams, nel nightie and gumboots; wears a graduate of Langara.

18 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 19 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 PHOTOGRAPHY Out of storage, into history

ACK IN THE DAYS WHEN THE TIMES REALLY WERE a’changin’, Vladimir Keremidschieff spent B seven years documenting the social shenanigans of Vancouver with his 35 mm Pentax, giving rise to his rare, forth- coming panorama, Seize the Time: Vancouver Photographed, 1967-1974 (New Star $24), a collection of one hundred b&w freelance images shot for Georgia Straight, Vancouver Sun and The Province. Along with portraits of Pierre Trudeau and the much- maligned “developer” Mayor Tom “Terrific” Campbell— no relation to Gord, at least genetically—Keremidschieff documented the hippie era and the pop music scene with con- cert images of Cream, Blind Faith, Phil Ochs, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan and The Band, and many more. While Sieze the Time chiefly reflects the so-called counter- culture, from downtown protests to squatters on the North Shore mudflats, less dramatic photos—such as a female cabbie for Black Top taxi—are more in keeping with the documentary resolve of colour photographer Fred Herzog. Born in Germany in 1947, Keremidschieff grew up in Aus- tralia and came to Vancouver in 1957. When he and his wife left in 1974 to sail to the South Pacific, he put his negatives in storage where they remained for almost forty years. Keremidschieff now lives in Sydney, Australia, where he teaches English as a second language. 9781554200740 Couple at Strawberry Mountain Fair, near Mission, May, 1970, photo from Seize The Time (New Star) Lincoln likes bikes

EAUTIFUL WOMEN ON BICYCLES IN DOWNTOWN TRAF- fic, many wearing short skirts, comprise the first two- B thirds of Lincoln Clarkes’ Cyclists (Quattro $35), followed by less conspicuous gents. These are fashionable, be- guiling portraits from Toronto that are presented as “stolen pub- lic moments given back to us as art & history.” It’s less controversial than Clarkes’ stunning and brave Vancouver-based predecessor Heroines (Anvil 2002) but no less timely. No doubt Vancouver’s bikeaholic mayor Gregor Robertson will be getting a copy for Christmas. 978-1927443-45-3 ✍ Stephen Waddell is a prominent Vancouver photographer Photo from who has exhibited widely including recent solo exhibitions at the Cyclists (Quattro) Contemporary Art Gallery and Monte Clark Gallery (Vancou- by Lincoln ver/Toronto), Galerie Tanit (Munich), Kunstforum Baloise (Basel) Clarkes and group exhibitions Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels) and 5x5 Castello 09, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello (Spain). He was awarded the Liliane Bettencourt Prix de Photographie in 2010 and is in major mu- seum collections. His book of photography is Hunt and Gather (Steidl $50). 9783869301150 ✍ Kiriko Watanabe, assistant curator at the West Vancouver Museum, has co-curated an exhibition of Selwyn Pullan’s photographs for the museum, leading to Selwyn Pullan: Pho- tographing Mid-Century West Coast Modernism (D&M $45), the first full-length book dedicated to Pullan’s photographs, with writing by Barry Downs, Donald Luxton, and Adele Weder. As a photographer in the 1950s and ’60s, Selwyn Pullan documented a new type of West Coast modernisn in architecture. 978-1-55365-947-1 ✍ Bill Terry and Rosemary Bates visited eleven exceptional gardens in coastal B.C. and Washington State for Beauty by De- sign (Touchwood $24.95). Locales include Robin Hopper’s “Anglojapanadian” woodland wonderland as well as the greenery retreats created by celebrity artist couples Robert and Birgit Bateman on Salt Spring Island, Des and Sandy Kennedy on Denman Island and Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier of Saanich. The authors quote from Lane’s memoir: “Done well, a garden is a poem, and the old lesson of gardening is the same in poetry: what is not there is just as important as what is.” 9781771510127

20 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 21 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 22 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 reviews BIOGRAPHY

This year Benedict XVI became prosecuted with the zeal and atten- the first pope in nearly 600 years tion to detail only a disillusioned to resign. Before he became pope, former believer can bring to bear. Joseph Ratzinger, as a cardinal, Gawthrop rolls out a chronol- forbade the use of condoms by het- GOD’S ROTTWEILER erosexual couples, even in AIDS- ogy of Cardinal Ratzinger’s cam- ravaged Africa (although later, as The dark heart of Daniel Gawthrop’s paign to extirpate every trace of pope, he would allow their use by the liberal theology that came out male prostitutes) and described The Trial of Pope Benedict is the chapter on sex crimes. of Vatican II, even turning on old women’s liberation as “the ante- friends. chamber to disaster.” Here Shane For starters, on purely prag- abuse was only a violation of ous postings and achievements. Ratzinger especially wages war McCune responds to Daniel matic grounds the church is too church law.) (Catholics, lapsed or observant, against “liberation theology” per- Gawthrop’s overview of may be intrigued to learn that Ratzinger’s ascendancy. powerful to ignore. Apart from the The former pontiff wasn’t al- sonified by the likes of Oscar moral suasion wielded by popes, ways so bloody-minded. Surpris- Ratzinger was awarded the chair in Romero, the archbishop of El Sal- C BY SHANE M CUNE the Vatican is a sovereign state with ingly, Gawthrop paints Ratzinger dogmatics at Tubingen University vador, who was conveniently as- The Trial of Pope Benedict: Joseph Ratzinger & the Vatican’s Assault on Reason, observer status at the United Na- as a dazzling university lecturer who by Hans Kung, a liberal theolo- sassinated before Ratzinger could Compassion, & Human Dignity by Daniel tions (and voting power on some held his students spellbound — that gian he had befriended at Vatican remove or discipline him. But other Gawthrop (Arsenal Pulp Press $15.95) important committees, as is, until the campus upheavals of II. The rest of us may simply be leftist bishops were spied on, si- ELL, YOU CAN’T SAY Gawthrop notes in his book). the late 1960s. While liberals within intrigued to learn that there is such lenced or even hounded out of the you weren’t warned. And there remain far more the church applauded or even a thing as a chair in dogmatics.) church. WYou don’t even have visceral reasons for probing this joined student protests against the Gawthrop portrays the One of Ratzinger’s charges to get to the subtitle of The Trial particular pope’s crimes and mis- Vietnam War and social injustice, Ratzinger of the 1960s and early against Peru’s Gustavo Gutiérrez, of Pope Benedict to know that demeanours. While some of the lat- Ratzinger was appalled and shaken. 1970s as a priest in title only, more the brains behind liberation theol- “gay lapsed Catholic” Daniel ter (Ratzinger’s vendettas with He and a coterie of conservative interested in theological scholarship ogy, was his “selective reading of Gawthrop is about to make a meal other clerics and his arid theology) theologians began to work to undo than ministering to the poor, the the Bible, overemphasizing the of the ex-Benedict. are, frankly, of little interest to this much of the progressive advances sick, or anybody else. He beavered poor.” But why bother? lapsed Protestant, the crimes in of Vatican II. away on treatises defending the old- He was equally ruthless in We already know that Joseph question were horrific and wide- Gawthrop has meticulously re- line precepts of the church and snuffing out any hope for the ordi- Ratzinger, aka Pope Benedict XVI, spread — the stuff of high-profile searched Ratzinger’s rise through launched a conservative magazine nation of women, or any role for was a reactionary pontiff who swat- criminal trials just about anywhere the church hierarchy, noting the al- to counter a liberal quarterly that women in the church beyond serv- ted down any attempt at liberaliz- but Vatican City. lies and enemies he made, his vari- sprang up during Vatican II, the ice to men. When English theolo- ing the church, further marginalizing Ratzinger is not just some well- cleansing and liberalizing council gian Lavinia Byrne produced a women and homosexuals. meaning but out-of-touch launched by Pope John XXIII book called Women at the Altar, the And we know that countless priest, or even an overly While his term as in the early 1960s. CDF prefect actually had it burned. sexual crimes among the clergy were paternalistic disciplinar- In 1977 Pope Paul VI In 2012, as Pope Benedict, he concealed or muted under what was ian. As Gawthrop por- pontiff may be over, named him Bishop of targeted U.S. nuns for not speak- supposedly his watch. But that was trays him, “God’s Munich, and his long ing out strongly enough against gay also true of John Paul II, the guy Rottweiler” is a truly the evil perpetuated march to the top job be- marriage, abortion and women’s or- who wore the dress and pointy hat nasty piece of work, gan. The pace picked up dination. He specifically called out for 27 years before him. misogynistic, pitiless by Joseph Ratzinger in 1981, when Karol the Leadership Conference of So why go after a former pope? and power-mad. Wotyla, aka Pope John Women Religious, an umbrella And should any of this concern According to Gawthrop, will be difficult Paul II, named Ratzinger group for American nuns, for sup- those of us with no ties to Roman Ratzinger played a key role in prefect for the Congregation porting — in defiance of their bish- Catholicism? enabling and protecting partici- to undo. of the Doctrine of the Faith ops — U.S. President Barack Gawthrop anticipated these pants in what amounted to the big- (CDF) — the Pope’s enforcer. Obama’s health care reform, which questions when he wrote a Febru- gest pedophile ring in the world. ✫ mandated insurance coverage for ary 2012 profile of Benedict in the (In July, Pope Francis an- AT THIS POINT THE TRIAL OF POPE birth control for employees at reli- online magazine The Tyee, some of nounced a new law that makes it a Benedict starts to live up to its ti- gious institutions. Ratzinger sent which is reworked in the book’s secular crime to abuse tle. Although Gawthrop opens and in a posse of bishops to clean house prologue. children sexually closes his book by inviting the at the organization. “Does the Pope even mat- or physically on reader to imagine Joseph Ratzinger continued on page 24 ter,” he writes, “given Vatican grounds. in the dock at the International that so many millions of Previously child Court of Justice, he wisely Catholics have not only does not try to sustain this tuned him out but aban- metaphor throughout. doned their faith alto- But if the book is not a trial gether?” transcript it certainly is Of course, the an- an indictment, swer has to be yes.

BC BOOKWORLD STAFF PICK

23 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013

C

h

r

is

t in

e

S m a r t

H

E

D

G

E

R

O

W H

E D G E R O W

for its bravery and

“Read this book

its beauty.”

christine smart White

Crow

The

poems

www.hedgerowpress.com

1

3

-

0

6

-

0 p

6

9

:0

0

JANCIS M.ANDREWS JANCIS

The BalladofMrsSmith The WhiteCrow ISBN 978-1-926618-01-2 ISBN 978-1-926618-02-9 CHRISTINE SMART CHRISTINE HEDGEROW o (2012) * * * e (2013) t s

“Powerful poems, poems, “Powerful

both tough and and tough both sensitive.” sensitive.” HEDGEROW

24 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013

defence againstthecomingstormoflawsuits. Benedict sawinthatwordingthebasisofa self-loathing ones.ButGawthropmaintains aware gaymenandtoattractclosetedand/or toxic culturedesignedtowardoffhonest,self- culture,’” itsaid. sexual tendenciesorsupporttheso-called‘gay homosexuality, presentdeep-seatedhomo- nary ortoholyordersthosewhopractise the priesthood. whether practisingornot—wereunfitfor document declaringthathomosexuals— faithful better, orevenatleastsafer. to hisdogmaaheadofmakingthelives Ratzinger wouldalwaysputrigidadherence might somehowpromotehomosexuality. pant thantomakeitacrime,becausethat and promotionofhomosexuality.” islative protection matically, totheleg- lead, ifnotauto- gays “caneasily discriminate against making itillegalto ter hewarnedthat selves. brought itonthem- to gays,they whatever happens increase.” ground, andirrationalviolentreactions other distortednotionsandpracticesgain nor societyatlargeshouldbesurprisedwhen has anyconceivableright,neitherthechurch duced toprotectbehaviourwhichnoone condoned, orwhencivillegislationisintro- when homosexualactivityisconsequently disordered. Whensuchaclaimismadeand to claimthatthehomosexualconditionisnot ted againsthomosexualpersonsshouldnotbe epidemic anditsattendanthomophobia: 1986, attheheightofNorth America’s AIDS toral careofhomosexualpersons”issuedin wrote asCDFprefecttobishopson“thepas- HERE continued frompage23 Gawthrop. the mostextreme,andcunning,says mosexuality thatRatzinger/Benedicthasbeen Not muchnewthere:acontinuationof “The Church.cannotadmittothesemi- Early inhispapacyBenedictapproveda Again andagainGawthropnotesthat So itwasbettertoletgay-bashingrunram- In thesamelet- In otherwords, “Theproperreactiontocrimescommit- But itisinhiswordsandactionsonho-

re IS

AN

EXCERPT

FROM

SAW AUNG HTWE NYUNT LAY PHOTO ✫ Daniel Gawthrop, St. Peter’s Bacilica,Rome

A views

LETTER

RATZINGER BIOGRAPHY columnist nowlivinginComox. Shane McCuneisaformerProvince ingly irrelevantinstitution. doning thiscorrupt,hypocriticalandincreas- that morepeoplewilljointhemillionsaban- ing pages,Ibelieveitismorerealistictohope can’s powerandgiveupitsstatehood. ties, conveneVatican III,decentralizetheVati- house,” opensexabusefilestocivilauthori- afterword, urgesPopeFrancisto“clean NOW for centuriesitsmostobedientfiefdom. to thereport.ButchurchhadlostIreland, ficial tut-tuttedKenny’s “excessive reaction” See brieflyrecalleditsambassador,andanof- these crimes. interfere withcriminalinvestigationsinto front childsexabuse,butalsofortryingto to blastthe Vatican fornotonlyfailingtocon- ping a10-yearcivilinquiryrevealedthat far occurredinIreland,whereareportcap- most widespreaddocumentedabusesby list ofthecrimesandcover-ups,but dered,” thechapteronsexcrimes. Benedict a Nazi. cal accusationsthattheyoungRatzingerwas churches. Hebrushesasidethemorehysteri- and Benedict’s propensityforalienatingother banking scandals,itsinterferenceattheUN GAWTHROP boos onallformsofsexuality.” with sexualorientationthanmedievalta- goat gaymenforascandalthathadlesstodo writes. “Hewascreatingaclimatetoscape- enabled forhundredsofyears,”Gawthrop ity foraproblemthechurchhadwillingly In viewofallhehaslaidoutinthepreced- Pope BenedictXVI’s response? The Holy Space doesnotpermitevenapartial But thedarkheartof “He waspreparingtoblamehomosexual-

AN

is“Bewitched,BuggeredandBewil- ATHEIST

ALSO

, DEALS DANIEL ✫ ✫

WITH 9781551525273 nation’s legislature Kenny minister) Taoiseach (prime scandal.” to protectagainst of thechurchwas “the soleconcern schools, andthat church-run been abusedin of childrenhad tens ofthousands

The Trial ofPope GAWTHROP In 2011Irish

THE stoodinthe

VATICAN , Enda IN

AN ’ S The Left in British Columbia A History of Struggle Gordon Hak This comprehensive history of the left in BC from the late 19th century to the present explores the successes and failures of individuals and organizations striving to make a better world. Hak explores the fight for union representation, women’s suffrage and equality, human rights, Canadian nationalist visions, racial equality and environmental protection. Includes both the old and new lefts. With 20 b&w photos.

978-1-55380-256-3 250 pp $21.95

Undaunted He Moved a Mountain The Best of BC BookWorld The Life of Frank Calder and the Edited by Alan Twigg Nisga’a Land Claims Accord The contributors in this “Best of” include Jane Rule, Joan Harper George Woodcock, W.P. Kinsella, Stephen Vizinczey, The first biography of Frank Calder, the Nisga’a broadcaster Mark Forsythe, and biographer Joan chief who brought the “Calder Case” to the Supreme Givner, with illustrations by David Lester. Court of Canada, the blueprint for world-wide 978-1-55380-253-2 250 pp $19.95 aboriginal land claims. 20 b&w photos. 978-1-55380-227-3 202 pp $21.95 A Night for the Lady Late Moon Joanne Arnott Pamela Porter “Joanne Arnott uses the poem as a way to expand her This collection of lyric poems by GG-winner Pamela neighbourhood, even caressing it as ‘a home for our Porter brims with a deep longing, an abiding thirst for truth, and finally, acceptance and peace as when losses.’ A Night for the Lady is very much a ‘poethic’ kind of poetry, clearly articulated as a ritual ‘striving for there is “a choir of foxes, out from their hollow / balance,’ looking for the right way to treat the world. in the early dark, / yipping, yipping and singing, / And these poems do, and are a treat.” —FRED WAH praising the bright, the unkempt world.” 978-1-55380-250-1 122 pp $15.95 978-1-55380-236-5 110 pp $15.95 The Resurrection How Happy Became of Joseph Bourne Homosexual Jack Hodgins Howard Richler This new Ronsdale edition of the GG-award-winning An informative yet humorous account of the novel makes available to readers once again the mirac - ever-changing meanings of words in the English ulously life-giving world of Port Annie, teetering on the language. Learn how “gay” morphed into “homo - edge of the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, forever sexual” along with hundreds of other examples. threatening to slide into the sea — only to be reborn. 978-1-55380-230-3 164 pp $19.95 978-1-55380-239-6 288 pp $18.95

Young Adult Books

Seas of South Whatever Hannah & the Cursed by the Africa Ann Walsh Salish Sea Sea God Philip Roy Sixteen-year-old Darrah Carol Anne Shaw Patrick Bowman knows it was wrong to pull the The sixth volume in the The second book in the The second volume in the fire alarm, but she doesn’t “Submarine Outlaw” series “Hannah” series begins with trilogy that retells Homer’s know how wrong until she finds takes Alfred and his crew into a poachers moving into Odyssey, as seen through herself part of a Restorative confrontation with pirates along Cowichan Bay, forcing Hannah, the eyes of Alexi, a Trojan Justice circle, along with an the east coast of Africa, followed Izzy, her new First Nations boy who has been enslaved RCMP officer, and has to by a trip overland to Soweto friend, and boyfriend Max by Odysseus. Vol. I was face the consequences where he discovers both the into a desperate struggle to a nominee for the Red of her actions. violence and the beauty of save the lives of the Maple Award. post-Apartheid South Africa. 978-1-55380-259-4 endangered animals. 978-1-55380-186-3 214 pp $11.95 978-1-55380-247-1 978-1-55380-233-4 208 pp $11.95 250 pp $11.95 272 pp $11.95

Available from your favourite bookstore or order from PGC/Raincoast Ronsdale Press Also available as eBooks ½ www.ronsdalepress.com

25 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 ! THE FALL LINE-UP ! GREAT BOOKS ABOUT BC

IN THE SHADOW OF FURROWS IN THE SKY HOOFED MAMMALS THE GREAT WAR The Adventures of OF BRITISH COLUMBIA The Milligan and Hart Gerry Andrews Explorations of Northeastern David Shackleton Jay Sherwood British Columbia, 1913–14 $25.95 Jay Sherwood $19.95 978-0-7726-6638-3 978-0-7726-6522-5 $19.95 978-0-7726-6637-6

NATURE GUIDE TO THE SAANICH ETHNOBOTANY THE WHALING PEOPLE VICTORIA REGION Culturally Important Plants of of the West Coast of Vancouver W Edited by Ann Nightingale the ̱ SÁNEĆ People Island and Cape Flattery and Claudia Copley Nancy J. Turner and Eugene Arima and Richard J. Hebda Alan Hoover $14.95 978-0-7726-6575-1 $24.95 $19.95 978-0-7726-6577-5 978-0-7726-6491-4 All Royal BC Museum books are distributed by Heritage Group.

www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/publications

a novel by ELIZABETH STEWART # 2013 Notable Books for a Global Society # Skipping Stones Honor Award # White Ravens Collection, International This Day in Vancouver is Jesse Donaldson’s Youth Library compendium of facts and stories about the great city of Vancouver. In fact, one for every day of the year :: Racism, murder, and injustice wreak havoc in a frontier town. Savage 1986-2011 is the new novel from Nathaniel G. Based on a true story. Moore...“AwritersofarremovedfromtheCanLit conversation he may as well be writing in a different “It’s one of the most powerful books I’ve read in years.” language.” (Mark Medly, The National Post) :: The —Ken Setterington, The Next Chapter, CBC Radio Incomparables is the debut novel from Trillium “... a chilling, captivating novel about an innocent scapegoat, a nominated author Alexandra Leggat :: Thorazine Beach searing injustice and the far-reaching damage secrets and lies do.” —Canadian Children’s Book News {Winner of the 35th Int’l 3-Day Novel Contest} follows private eye Jack Minyard on a case that puts him in the “... an engaging book that combines midst of some of the roughest trade going :: Small a strong mystery arc with thought- Apartments {Now A Major Motion Picture} A fine new edition provoking issues.” —Quill & Quire of this 3-day novel contest winner to celebrate its trip through the Hollywood magic machine :: In the ages 12+ | 288 pages Trenches, the long-awaited Best of subTerrain Magazine, Volume I. Wood, Jennica Harper’s surprising, tender, and book trailer & sample chapter at www.annickpress.com brave collection of poems about parenthood. anvil www.anvilpress.com | annick press | www.annickpress.com | available from your favourite bookseller

26 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 INDIES

Edward Island. Something had to give....and it did.” According to Floyd Frank, the French Canadians Truth Digger “came over the hill like lemmings.” They were soon joined by disgruntled Canadian regular army person- nel. When the officers rushed to the munitions depot, How a hushed-up they found it empty. Their orders were ignored. The town of Terrace was held hostage by Canadian sol- revolt of diers for over two weeks. Canadian soldiers Eventually a brave officer rode the armoured train into Terrace from Prince Rupert. Speaking into the in Terrace was muzzle of a machine gun, he told the mutineers there was a plane loaded with bombs at the airport and uncovered by resistance would be futile. By this time many men Nadine Jones had deserted, most hopping freight trains to go back east. This military embarrassment was hushed up. The N 1970, WHILE RESEARCHING THE HISTORY aftermath of the mutiny was anti-climactic. There of Terrace for the Terrace Public Li- were just three arrests; one for a soldier taking off his uniform, two others for insubordination. brary Association, Nadine I In the early 1970s, John David Hamilton came to Jones—writing as Nadine Asante— uncov- At age 90, Nadine Jones (with daughters Jackie and Terrace and interviewed Jones in her living room. He also ered the only known mutiny in the Canadian army. Leanne Asante) has followed her history of Terrace made a trip to Vancouver Island to interview the head of with Four Great “F” Words: Fur, Feathers, Fish & Fun Pacific Command at the time of the mutiny, Major General ($16.99), a light-hearted collection of short memoirs An old-timer named Floyd Frank recalled for her the George Pearkes. These interviews spawned an hour- about animals and homesteading. wartime mutiny of Canadian soldiers stationed in Terrace in long CBC documentary that verifies the mutiny. 1944. This story was corroborated by four other old-timers ✍ and appeared in her history that marked the town’s centenary. Jones had no idea she had unshrouded a military secret. NOW NADINE JONES’ FOUR GREAT “F” WORDS RECALLS A “It sold 4,000 copies,” she quips, “because I named eve- Before the arrival of more than 3,000 troops and 3,000 family’s experiences in northern B.C. after the author and ryone in town.” construction workers in the early 1940s, Terrace was a sleepy her husband bought 48 acres on the former site of a cedar Shortly after the book’s publication, Jones was surprised outpost of 400 souls, but its location on the CN train line to mill, building a log house and outbuildings with the help of to receive a phone call from John David Hamilton, a Prince Rupert meant it was important in the process that their two daughters, aged eleven and fourteen. CBC documentary producer and book reviewer in Toronto, would ensure American troops could have access to the coast Now living in Richmond, Jones has written for various saying he was going to review her book. to fight the rumoured Japanese invasion. periodicals, including the Scottish Daily Express in Glasgow, “I wondered why a small book about a little-known “There was nowhere to go,” she recalls, “and nothing to the Manchester Guardian and the Montreal Gazette. She town, written by an unknown author, deserved to be do, and very few girls, so animosity between soldiers and was the ‘Home’ page editor for the Vancouver Sun in the reviewed on CBC radio,” recalls Jones, “until I heard workers reached a boiling point. There was a battalion of 1960s for editors Barry Broadfoot and Alex him concentrating on a chapter that I had called Mutiny conscripted French Canadian soldiers, RC Engineers from MacGillvray; then she wrote for The Sun and The Prov- on the Skeena.” Camp Borden and a large number of soldiers from Prince ince as a seniors columnist in the 1980s and 1990s.

27 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 28 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 reviews TEENLIT

The age-old dilemma of teacher-student intimacy gets a modern look in Allegra. ★

“Rarely is a situation black and white. In Allegra I wanted to explore those murky grey areas, those circumstances that can bring a student and teacher together in ways that may be considered wrong, even when there is no inappropriate intent.”

SHELLEY HRDLITSCHKA

“Recently I felt compassion for the Sechelt teacher, Heather Ingram, when I read Risking It All, the story of her relationship with a student. The media made mincemeat of her at the time, and I’m as disgusted TEACHER’S as the next person when a teacher preys on a vulnerable student, but we’re often too quick to judge be- fore we have all the facts. ✫ “I received many hugs from my RELUCTANT PET students when I was teaching, classical training while her dad, self- melody he’s composed. “It’s like a talent, a talent way beyond her Allegra by Shelley Hrdlitschka (Orca $12.95) back in the ’80s, and my own taught, would scoff at someone like black-and-white sketch,” he tells her. teenage years. Then everything be- daughters have given and received ON T STAND SO CLOSE TO Mr. Rocchelli. Her dad’s been per- “I want you to turn it into a full- gins to fall apart. She and Spencer ’ hugs from caring teachers. None me. At what point does a forming for years while her moth- colour painting.” aren’t friends anymore, her dad’s of these were ever inappropriate teenage crush on a teacher er’s only recently gotten work as a Meanwhile, things are getting moved out. But Allegra’s still got D but a male teacher friend confessed cross the line? When does a teach- musician. But it was her mother worse between her parents. Her Noel. That’s Rocky’s real first that he squirmed the entire time er’s support and admiration of a who made her complete the “high- dad’s on the road so much her mom name. And then another student ac- he was reading Allegra, not know- student become suspect? est level of piano performance” at always gets this “weird kind of cuses Allegra and Mr. Rocchelli of ing where the teacher/student re- These are the questions the National Music Academy be- nervousness” when he’s about to an inappropriate relationship. Has lationship was headed. He said he Shelley Hrdlitschka explores in fore she’d consider letting Allegra come home. It’s more than that, she destroyed his career? His life? kept reflecting on all the times he’d Allegra, her ninth novel for teen study dance. Allegra’s though. There’s a simmer- And what has she done to herself? been put into awkward positions readers. gotten math and biology ing undercurrent Allegra In the dark days that follow, when by his own students, both male “In music, the term allegro out of the way at sum- can’t quite read. But she there is “no reason to get out of and female. When he wants to means ‘lively, with a happy air,’” mer school and now she has an idea it might have bed” and “dancing is pointless,” reach out and show genuine car- says Mr. Rocchelli. The music just wants whatever aca- something to do with one Allegra discovers solace—and re- ing to his students—a quick hug teacher, with the faded jeans and demics she needs to of the guys in the sym- demption—in an unexpected or even a squeeze on the arm— the dimples, smiles at Allegra. graduate. It doesn’t make phony, the one named source. Her father. Louise he has to hold back for “Does that describe you?” sense she has to take a Marcus who drives her ✫ DONNELLY fear of his intentions be- “I think that’s what my parents lame music theory course, mother to performances. SHELLEY HRDLITSCHKA’S ing misconstrued. were hoping when they named me,” especially since she could fill that Still, some of the kids at school other novels include Kat’s BC BOOKWORLD ✫ Allegra mutters. It’s only the first block with another dance class. aren’t so bad. Tall skinny Spencer, Fall, where 15-year-old STAFF PICK “I understand why Darcy must come to terms morning at Deer Lake School for You’d think a high school for the for one. And the project Mr. strict guidelines are now in with his mother’s horrific the Fine and Performing Arts and arts would get that. Rocchelli proposed—expanding place, yet it’s unfortunate that it crime—throwing his sister from a already the place is a disappoint- She can write the final exam his melody into a full orchestrated has to be this way, and I suspect fifth floor balcony—and Sister ment. immediately, Mr. Rocchelli tells version—is more fulfilling than that many teachers will continue Wife, an exploration of the enforced “And?” prompts Mr. Rocchelli. Allegra, and she has to concede Allegra imagined it would be. Soon to reach out with human touch and plural marriage of young girls. “I let them down,” Allegra says. “how nice he looks when he she and Rocky—as he invites the kindness when it is called for in Shelley Hrdlitschka came to Allegra’s mother is a harpist in smiles.” Acing the exam still kids to call him—are spending more the classroom.” the symphony and her father is the doesn’t get her out of his class but and more time together working writing as a school teacher. 978-1-4598-0197-4 bass player for a band called the he promises something “really spe- alone in the studio, caught up in — Shelley Hrdlitschka Loose Ends. Her mother is all for cial.” The project turns out to be a the music and Allegra’s startling Louise Donnelly writes from Vernon.

29 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 THE WRITER’S STUDIO Join us for a free info session Be part of our award-winning, October 3, 2013. part-time creative writing program. www.sfu.ca/creative-writing

30 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 reviews KIDLIT BY AYLA HARKER SECRETS & WHYS JUVENILE FICTION • AGES 8–13 JUVENILE FICTION • AGES 9–12 Sabotage by Karen Autio (Sono Nis $10.95) Eldritch Manor by Kim Thompson (Dundurn $12.99) AREN AUTIO WASN’T KIM THOMPSON IS A FILMMAKER BORN with a silver and television writer who has spoon in her mouth; she K relocated from Toronto to started writing with one. Saltspring Island. She has written A gift of a silver spoon as an scripts for children’s cartoons such heirloom from her grandmother led as Jacob Two-Two, and The to talks about her Finnish heritage— Doodlebops. Eldritch Manor is and recollections of how relatives her first, whimsical YA novel. Pub- died in the sinking of the Empress lisher’s promo: “Twelve-year-old of Ireland in 1914. That gift and Willa Fuller is convinced the old conversation inspired Autio to tell folks in the shabby boarding house the tale of 12-year-old Saara Mäki, down the street are prisoners of en route to Finland on the doomed their sinister landlady, Miss Trang. steamship, for her first novel, Sec- Only when Willa is hired on as ond Watch (Sono Nis Press, 2005). housekeeper does she discover the About two-thirds of that ocean truth. Eldritch Manor is a retire- liner’s 1,477 passengers and crew ment home for some very strange, died when the Empress of Ireland magical beings. All of them have collided with a Norwegian ship in stories to tell, gripes to vent, and the Saint Lawrence River in 1914. petty grievances with each other. In Autio’s second novel, Saara's When Miss Trang departs on busi- Passage (Sono Nis 2008), Saara, ness, Willa is left to babysit the as one of the 465 survivors, returns residents… all while keeping the to northwestern Ontario only to AGAINST THE GRAINS nosy neighbours out of their busi- learn her beloved Aunt Marja must Karen Autio’s trilogy ends in 1915 when German saboteurs ness and uncovering a secret about move to a sanatorium in Toronto her own past.” 9781459703544 for treatment of tuberculosis. try to blow up an Ontario bridge near her heroine’s home. Autio’s Finnish-Canadian tril- ogy has been completed with Sabo- seemingly generating confusion on DASTARDLY GIRLS RINGING PARROT ON NORGAARD JUVENILE FICTION • AGES 11-14 tage, which is based on an attempt purpose. Guapo can perfectly AGES 4-8 Attitude by Robin Stevenson (Orca $9.95) to blow up the Nipigon River rail- mimic the sound of a ringing tel- FOR THEE Would Someone Please Answer the Parrot! way bridge near Port Arthur (Thun- by Beryl Young (Peanut Butter $19.95) ephone, for example, hence the ti- AGES 4-7 ROBIN STEVENSON’S ATTITUDE der Bay) during the First World tle. The family ultimately welcomes Island Santa by Sheryl McFarlane and centres around a dedicated 14-year- IN BERYL YOUNG’S WOULD SOME- Sheena Lott (Health Foundation $19.95) War. As someone born in Thunder old, Cassie Jordan, and her four- one Please Answer the Parrot a their unruly pet as an asset when it Bay, Autio had heard about the story week tryout with the Pacific Coast family receives a talking parrot turns out only Guapo can vanquish AFTER RETIREMENT, FORMER FULLER but never believed it until she un- Ballet Company in Vancouver—far, named Guapo who drives the an even more objectionable pres- Brush salesman Kaare Norgaard dertook research for her novels and far away from her home in Aus- household up the wall with his an- ence, the nasty and miserable came up with the idea of turning learned the 1915 incident was true. tralia. Cassie arrives with her sights tics—imitating absolutely every- Auntie Pattie, an unwanted annual his boat, the Blue Fjord, into a In Sabotage, 13-year-old hero- set high and thing, even the microwave— visitor. Illustrations for this whim- “Santa Boat.” Kaare piloted his ine Saara at first refuses to listen to sical and slightly audacious story floating sleigh to the remote coastal hopeful her pesky younger brother John are by Jason Doll. 978-1-927735-00-8 islands that surround Vancouver Is- about the when he talks about spies in land, bringing gifts to children. In prospect of Canada. She has more important COOKING MYSTERY 1991, Kaare established the making new things to worry about, such as her JUVENILE FICTION • AGES 8–13 Norgaard Foundation to, “help friends, but German friend being hauled off to The Case of the Missing Deed pick up those who have fallen comes to live in a Canadian internment camp. by Ellen Schwartz (Tundra $17.99) through the cracks.” The founda- realize that But so much of Canada’s grain THE CASE OF THE MISSING DEED IS tion has published Island Santa Robin Stevenson some girls for Allied soldiers in Europe is be- a culinary mystery for kids aged 8 (Health Foundation $19.95), a chil- will do any- ing routed via Port Arthur that ulti- to 13 that incorporates recipes into dren’s book illustrated by Sidney thing to get ahead, however unkind. mately Saara must accept that her the story. Recipes were provided resident Sheena Lott and written As she strives to be the best she brother’s fantasies are based on a by Ellen Schwartz’s daughter, a by Sheryl McFarlane, to recall can be, Cassie notices perform- real threat. Once more the Mäki professional pastry chef. In 2013 how the boat was transformed into ances at the school are not restricted family is in jeopardy and her cour- it won the Rocky Mountain Book a floating sleigh delivering Christ- to the stage—and that girls can be age and wits will be put to the test. Covert art from Would Someone Award Gold Medal in Alberta. mas gifts to island children. competitive in under-handed, das- 978-1-45980-382-4 978-1-55039-208-1 Please Answer the Parrot! 978-0-88776-959-7 9780988053601 tardly ways.

Emilia Poems from Planet Earth Daniela Elza Leanne McIntosh Nielsen with Jack Sproule edited by Yvonne Blomer and milk Cynthia Woodman Kerkham tooth A round-up of poems from readers at bane Dark Surge internationally renowned Planet Earth bone Matter Narrows Poetry in Victoria BC — “launching pad for the energies of writers and poets “The dark-winged protagonists in these The chronicle of a unique journey “If we could taste it, this book established and not.” pages are splintered shards of the self of friendship: Leanne McIntosh's would be salmonberry. It would haunting the branches. Out of the ache poems respond to the prose she has 978-1-926655-58-1 208 pp $20.00 be salt. To read these poems of the present moment, Daniela Elza has chosen from thirty years of private is to stand under a waterfall, crafted something spare and irresistible, correspondence, journals and articles letting the words rush like cold, an open armature for wonder.” from Jack Sproule, her friend of many clean water over the skin. —David Abram decades, a Catholic priest, now retired. A powerful debut." —Anne Simpson with an introduction by with a foreword by Aislinn Hunter Jock McKeen

978-1-926655-60-4 104 pp $16.95 978-1-926655-57-4 104 pp $16.95 978-1-926655-59-8 80 pp $16.95

[email protected] publishing poetry only www.leafpress.ca

31 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 CELEBRATING 25 YEARS ON THE NEWSSTANDS!

MAGAZINE

DRAW DATE: WIN Monday, October 14, 2013 2 DAYS TRAVEL COSTS TO WHISTLER NOT INCLUDED! AT THE WHISTLER READERS & WRITERS FESTIVAL (OCT 18-20, 2013)

ENTER TO WIN!

THE DEAL INCLUDES: 2 Passes to the Whistler Readers and Writers Festival 2 Nights (for you and a guest) at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler 2 Gift Certifi cates for Southside Diner

SUBSCRIBE or RENEW your subscription to subTerrain before October 11th to be entered to win: subterrain.ca/subscriptions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Seven prize categories for fiction, poetry, children, illustrated, non-fiction, regional, and booksellers’ choice. Submission deadline is December 1, 2013.

30th annual April 2014 Nominations open for lifetime achievement award, The Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence. Submission deadline is January 31, 2014.

For submission details visit www.bcbookprizes.ca

photo by Mark Mushet 31th Annual Lieutenant- Governor’s Award for Historical Writing of non-fiction books published in 2013 by authors of B.C. History. (reprints not eligible) Annual Non-Fiction Contest* $1500 in prizes available, plus publication! Entry deadline: December 31, 2013 $34.95 entry fee includes 1 year of EVENT 5,000 word limit British Columbia Historical Federation Deadline April 15, 2014 All entrants must contact William Morrison before submitting books. Reading Service for Writers [email protected] or 250-245-9247 If you are a new writer, or a writer with a troublesome manuscript, it may be just what you need. Winner of 2012 Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing: Derek Hayes Visit eventmags.com author of “British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas” The best little magazine in Canada.

32 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 ROCK REJECT BY JIM WILLIAMS Set in northern BC in the 1970s — at a time when the dangers reviews of asbestos first began to surface — Rock Reject is a story about FICTION accepting responsibility for one’s actions, corporate irresponsibil- ity and the blind pursuit of profit at the expense of physical and environmental health.

“Jim Williams’s characters enter the masculine world of mining IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS yearning for oblivion, but moral imperatives catch them up. Rock Reject shows us how work does not end in a paycheque but rather reaches into the distant corners of society binding us Kathryn Para’s novel asks who is the person together — for better or worse. Jim Williams leads us through the who aims the camera at dying men and women? corridors of union politics as he draws us through the dark tunnels of the soul.” — Linda Little, author of Strong Hollow and Scotch River BY CHERIE THIESSEN fact. It was on November 7, 2004 that a com- bined force of approximately 2,000 U.S. and Lucky by Kathryn Para (Mother Tongue Publishing $21.95) ROSEWAY 600 Iraqi troops once again pummeled 9781552665169 $19.95 Adult fiction T’S NOVEMBER 2004, IN FALLUJAH. IRAQI Fallujah with air strikes and infantry. When PUBLISHING resistance fighters, who have managed Anika teeters toward the Americans and the Winner of the 2011 inaugural AN IMPRINT OF FERNWOOD PUBLISHING Beacon Award for Social Justice Literature fernwoodpublishing.ca/roseway Ito take the beleaguered city back from bullet possibly heading for her chest, who is the American troops after a tenuous occupa- at the other end of that weapon? tion, are once again forced to defend it from The author, who has never been to Iraq, ✦ ✦ WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA ✦ ✦ WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA ✦ another American offensive. was motivated to write Lucky several years STANDING AT AN ANGLE TO MY AGE GEORGE SEFERIS – POEMS The city is in ruins, with 60% of the build- earlier, when she met and became friends with short stories poems by ings destroyed and a decimated population. a couple, he from Syria and she from Leba- by P.W. Bridgman George Seferis translated by Manolis It’s a humanitarian disaster. Inside the de- non. This fictional writing explores ... everyone is in need of stroyed city is a notorious Al-Qaeda terrorist “It sparked my interest in the Middle East ✦ universal all the others. We must whom war photojournalist, Anika Lund, is beyond the headlines,” says Para. “Then I saw themes of forgiveness look for man wherever we WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA dying to meet. It may come to that. a CBC documentary on war journalism fea- and redemption, can find him. When on his WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA The possible risks include not only the turing some very strong women journalists of love and loss, of hope way to Thebes Oedipus ✦ and hopelessness and encountered the Sphinx, loss of her own life, but po- who spoke eloquently darkness and light. his answer to its riddle tentially even the lives of Kathryn about their work and its The author is concerned was: “Man”. That simple Para word destroyed the her ex-lover, Alex, and her effects on their lives. I felt – as are so many of us – ✦ Paperback 5.5 x 8.5 in with the lineaments ✦ Paperback 5.5 x 8.5 in monster. We have many best friend, Viva. Is she stu- I had my story and could ✦ 165 pages and poetic chiaroscuro ✦ 253 pages monsters to destroy. Let pid or suicidal, courageous incorporate the real events ✦ ISBN: 9781926763255 of seemingly ordinary ✦ ISBN: 9781926763231 us think of the answer of ✦ $20.00 lives. ✦ $25.00 Oedipus. ✦ or crazy? with a fictional story about ✦ It’s June 2006 in West an ambitious female jour- JAZZ WITH ELLA Vancouver. Anika seems to nalist.” a novel by Jan DeGrass be clinging to her sanity, Equally ambitious is While on a study tour of living off the advances she writing about a time you the Soviet Union during received from a publisher didn’t live through, events the austere Brezhnev ✦ anxious to show the gritty you didn’t experience, and years, Jennifer, a Canadian student, is swept off her MYTHOGRAPHY WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA war zone images to the a place you’ve never been WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA feet by a handsome Soviet man, Volodya. He is a poetry by Manolis, It is the result of

world that the photo- to, but research can do ✦ discontented jazz pianist paintings by Ken Kirkby collaboration between journalist took during her wonders. whose idol is singer Ella & friends nine painters, a wood PHOTO time inside Fallujah. She’s Winner of the 2nd Fitzgerald–for him the carver, and a poet, who, ✦ ✦ at a party held by a friend, Search for the Great BC Paperback 5.5 x 8.5 in symbol of everything Paperback 5.5 x 8.5 in via three different forms ✦ 214 pages mysterious and musical ✦ 174 pages of art, contributed equally Claire, who was instru- Novel Contest sponsored ✦ ISBN: 9781926763248 that can happen only in ✦ ISBN: 9781926763217 to the compiling of this

MCLAUGHLIN ✦ mental in getting her the by Mother Tongue Pub- ✦ $23.00 the west. $30.00 unique artistic display. ✦ TIM

publishing contract and in lishing, Lucky asks a lot of ✦ WATER IN THE WILDERNESS THE UNQUIET LAND an effort to have it successfully fulfilled, has questions and answers none. One of them is, a novel by a novel supplied her friend with a psychiatrist and a “Who exactly is lucky in this novel?” It cer- Doris Riedweg by Ron Duffy lover. The wealthy, superficial Claire, how- tainly isn’t Anika. Although love may well Happily married to her The newly ordained beloved Morley, Father Padraig returns ever, is an unlikely friend and given Anika’s help her climb out of her lonely burrow, one Tyne Cresswell is content to his home village of contempt for her, lacks credibility. feels that even if she does regain her equilib- in her dual role of Corrymore as its new ✦ Will this book ever come to fruition? It’s rium, she will only feel totally alive when she farmer’s wife and hospital priest. nurse. The mission he has set WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA already long overdue and the photographer returns to the conflict zones. Then a late night himself in addition to his WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA has not even been able to look at her photos. The reader is left with the feeling that as conversation with one parochial duties is to save They’re wedged in her head, holograms haunt- news consumers we are somehow to blame, ✦ of her patients sets the souls” of the proud, in motion a series of pagan fisherman ing her day and night. Sometimes alcohol will safely away from the war zones we read about, ✦ Paperback 9 x 6 in heartbreaking events ✦ Paperback 6 x 9 in Finn MacLir and his make them vanish for a few hours, or good the conflicts that journalists have risked their ✦ 220 pages that neither she nor ✦ 250 pages daughter Caitlin by ✦ ISBN: 9781926763194 Morley could ever ✦ ISBN: 9781926763200 converting them to lives to document. Some of that feeling is prob- sex, ideally both. ✦ $23.00 have imagined. ✦ $23.00 Christianity... This first novel from Sunshine Coast ably intentional: writer, Kathryn Para, has the ingredients of “The idea of news as entertainment, and ✦ WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA ✦ ✦ WWW.LIBROSLIBERTAD.CA ✦ ✦ a page-turner, combining a suspenseful plot the moral issues that generates, interests me,” with a fully fleshed character and some good says Para. “News is a packaged consumer good old-fashioned love. with a need for content and a hungry internet. In these times, writing about Middle East- My particular interest was, at what cost? Who ern conflicts and terrorism is challenging. We’re is the person who aims the camera at dying Blood: A Scientific tired and shell-shocked and inclined to shout, men and women, because the dying is riveting Romance ‘enough already!’ Kathryn Para, however, for the audience? by Meg Braem avoids the traps and veers away from stere- “The expression is if it bleeds, it leads, and otypes and clichés. I wanted to know that person and how they A History of We want to know what actually happened survived the experience. From my research I Breathing to Anika in Fallujah. Will her newest lover, knew that for most of the photographers who by Daniel Macdonald Middle East journalist, Levi Slater, be able to wrote about their experiences, the physical rescue her from her nightmares, or will he leave and emotional cost was high.” her to pursue another story like her last lover But is the fragile Anika we meet in Van- did? couver a product of her profession, or is her “Blood reads beautifully, From award-winning author Available this fall Why is she drawn to such unreliable men, profession the inevitable choice of a woman lyrically, so loaded with the Daniel Macdonald comes dichotomy of tension and a stunning tale of myth and in bookstores and such dangerous places and such an insecure already struggling in life? She’s a compli- tenderness it shocks.” reality at the end of the in our online store: career? Some of the answers lie in her child- cated character and therein lies much of —Will Knoll, Avenue world and at its creation. playwrightscanada.com Magazine hood: her parents’ tragic accident and her the book’s appeal. 978-1-896949-31-4 brother’s early death. Others you have to fill in for yourself. Cherie Thiessen regularly reviews fiction from Para has carefully aligned her fiction with Pender Island, home to forty authors.

33 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 Anthony Dalton in Bangladesh

Dorothy Livesay, then taught in the BRITISHCOLUMBIA English department at UBC from 1962 to is for Aligizakis 1993. Married to painter Jack Hardman, she produced seven volumes of poetry including The Quality of Halves, INSPIRED BY THE CONCEPT OF THE SUPER- designed and printed by Takao Tanabe. man posited by Friedrich Nietzsche Fiamengo’s first collection was also the first in his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, book issued from Klanak Press. Greek Canadian poet WHO’SWHO For more info, see abcbookworld.com Manolis Aligizakis, under his pen name Manolis, Marya has written a bilingual (English/Greek) rev- Fiamengo erie about his own spiritual journal in and Jack Übermensch (Ekstasis $23.95). Manolis is for Coleman is for Everest Hardman Aligizakis’ translations for George Seferis: Collected Poems (Libros Libertad 2012) ILLUSTRATED WITH HER TO MARK THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF recently received the 1st International Po- original sketches, Canada’s first expedition to Mount Ever- etry Prize from The International Academy Sue Coleman’s est, Pat Morrow and Sharon Wood for the Arts. 978-1-897430-97-2 first novel Return of have produced Everest: High Expectations the Raven (Pacific (iTunes $9.99), “a coffee tablet” that records Music & Art $17.98) how the combined efforts of that expedi- is for Boyd whimsically recalls tion and the Everest Light Expedition in 1986 how Raven inadvert- placed Canada on the international moun- Sue Coleman ently created the taineering map. It contains video clips, au- is for Garrish SHELLEY BOYD, AS A CANADIAN LITERA- world and saved a frog from death by cover- dio clips, over 140 stills, and around 50,000 ture specialist in the Department of English ing him with a maple leaf.Aboriginal stories words. “Our expeditions were among the at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, has ex- HAVING PUBLISHED ARTICLES IN BC STUDIES, accompanied Coleman’s paintings of the last to attempt ascents of Everest by fair plored the use of the garden motif in the British Columbia Historical News and West Coast in her self-published An Artist’s means,” says Morrow. www.patmorrow.com works of Canadian authors Susanna Okanagan History, and operated a website Vision. A trip to the coast of Alaska resulted Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, about license plates, Chris Garrish has in Artist at Large: Along the South-coast Gabrielle Roy, Carol Shields and Lorna gathered facts, anecdotes and photos from of Alaska (1993). Other titles are Artist Crozier for her first book, Garden Plots: B.C.’s motoring history, mainly pertaining at Large in the Queen Charlottes. Canadian Women Writers and Their to license plates, for Tales from the Back Cowichan Bay-based Sue Coleman has Literary Gardens (McGill-Queens Bumper (Heritage $19.95), with a foreword also produced two books for young chil- $29.95). Boyd looks at associations between by former B.C. premier Gordon dren, Biggle Foo Meets Stinky and Biggle writing and gardening, and the role of the Campbell. 9781927527030 Foo Becomes a Legend. 1781460206799 female gardener. The book launch was held at Vandusen is for Hingston Botanical Gar- Mountaineers Sharon Wood and Pat is for Dalton Morrow offer observations on how dens. their lives were affected by Everest MICHAEL HINGSTON’S FIRST NOVEL 9780773541566 ADVENTUROUS SAILOR AND HISTORIAN experiences and assess the The Dilettantes (Freehand $21.95) con- Anthony Dalton has provided the fore- change in climbers’ attitudes and cerns the struggle of the SFU campus news- “the plummet of standards on the word for a new edition of the 1856 classic paper The Peak to combat the incursions of mountain today.” The Discovery of a Northwest Passage a freebie, low-brow daily paper. Peak edi- (Touchwood $19.95), containing the logs of tors Alex and Tracy need a major scoop to Captain Robert McClure from 1850 to gain the attention of a mostly uninterested 1854. Although his ship H.M.S. Investiga- student body far more concerned with ca- tor was trapped in ice—its remains were is for Fiamengo reers than news. Patrick deWitt, au- only located in 2010—McClure’s expedi- thor of The Sisters Brothers, has dubbed it, tion is credited with the first traversal of the WITH REGRET WE NOTE THE JULY DEATH OF “A fresh take on the campus novel... a droll, Northwest Passage, undertaken partially on West Coast writing pioneer Marya incisive dissection of the terrible, terribly foot. His voyage was intended as a rescue Fiamengo (1926-2013), born in Vancou- exciting years known as post-adolescence.” mission seeking survivors of the Franklin ver as the daughter of parents from the Born and raised in North Vancouver, expedition. McClure and his men survived Croatian island of Vis. She earned a Mas- Hingston attended SFU and moved to Ed- Shelley Boyd two harsh winters “iced” in Mercy Bay until ter’s degree in English and creative writing monton where he contributes a books col- their rescue in 1853. 978-1-77151-009-7 from UBC under Earle Birney and umn to the Edmonton Journal. 978-1-55481-182-3

34 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 BOOKSTORES WHO’SWHOBRITISHCOLUMBIA

J is for JOHNSON: Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher’s painting of herself with Emily Carr in front of the caravan that Carr called The Elephant.

is for Indigenous is for Little

TOM SWANKY’S QUESNEL-RAISED SON FIVE YOUNG WOMEN COMMIT ATM ROBBER- Shawn Swanky is spreading the ies, cook crack and survive on the mean word—based on his father’s self-published streets of Vancouver in Ashley Little's 2012 ebook, The Great Darkening: The True Anatomy of a Girl Gang (Arsenal $16.95), Story of Canada’s ‘War’ of Extermination a novel about a young girl gang in Vancouver on the Pacific—that the administration of called the Black Roses. Z is a graffiti artist; Governor James Douglas spread small- Kayos gave birth to a daughter at age thir- pox to generate epidemics that killed 100,000 teen, Mac is the mastermind, Mercy is a indigenous people in 1862-63. They fur- Punjabi thief and Sly Girl has fled her First ther claim that historians have failed to rec- Nations reserve. Tofino-raised Ashley Lit- ognize this genocide and in which Douglas tle completed a BFA in creative writing and (who was married to a First Nations woman) film studies at The University of Victoria was complicit. According to publicity ma- and released her first novel, Prick: Confes- terials, these accusations have been drawn sions of a Tattoo Artist (Tightrope Books, from ten years of collecting first-hand ac- 2011) before moving to Alberta. She has counts from the descendants of the small- also published a YA novel this year, The pox survivors and accounts of the epidemics New Normal (Orca $12.95), about a tena- published in newspapers of the time. Shawn cious teenager who copes with losing her Swanky hopes to raise funds for a docu- hair following the deaths of her sisters. mentary film, The Great Darkening. Gang: 978-1-55152-529-7; Normal: 9781459800748 www.shawnswanky.com is for Johnson is for Milman

HAVING WRITTEN THE FIFTH BOOK IN THE VICTORIA-BASED ARTIST Unheralded Artists of BC series, profiling and poet Isa Ina D.D. Uhthoff in 2012, Christina Milman has won the Johnston-Dean has added the sixth Canadian Jewish volume, The Life and Art of Edythe Book Award for Po- Hembroff-Schleicher (Mother Tongue etry for all three of her $34.95) with an introduction by Kerry poetry books, most Isa Milman Mason. It’s an extensive critical and bio- recently for some- graphical study of Emily Carr’s biog- thing small to carry home (Quattro $14.95). rapher and sketching partner, asserting Born a displaced person in Germany in Hembroff’s legitimacy as an artist in her 1949, she grew up in the United States and own right. 978-1-896949-27-7 came to Canada in 1975. She’s a graduate of Tufts University, and holds a Masters of Rehabilitation Science from McGill, where is for Kheraj she taught for a decade. 978-1926802947 community-minded but globally connected STANLEY PARK, ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST famous urban parks, was is for Never-say-die devastated by a windstorm on December 15, 2006, BROADCASTER AND TV forcing visitors to recog- host David Berner nize nature as a ferocious founded Canada’s force. Now Sean Kheraj first residential treat- We are proud has marked Stanley Park’s ment centre for drug to be nominated addicts and alcoholics, 125th anniversary with an for a Libris award examination of its a program that David Berner for Bookseller natural history for continues after of the Year! Inventing 45 years. Berner still runs therapy Stanley Park: An groups at The Orchard Recovery Environmental L is for LITTLE: Centre and he is the executive di- Open year-round with over 25,000 titles plus great selection Ashley Little O pen year-round with over 25,000 titles plus a great selection History (UBC Press rector of The Drug Prevention of Canadian authors, used books, art supplies, and gifts. of Canadian authors, used books, art supplies, and gifts. $29.95). Kheraj was Network of Canada. His first Visit us at self-published book, All the www.galianoislandbooks.com invited to speak as V isit us at www.galianoislandbooks.com part of the 125th anni- Way Home ($19.95) chronicles 250.539.3340 • [email protected] versary celebrations for the history and theory of his 250.539.334076 Madrona Drive, Galiano [email protected] Island, BC V0N 1P0 Stanley Park on August addictions work. 978-0991822010 HARKIN Please Join Us 76for ourMadrona Annual Drive Literary Galiano Festival Island • www.galianoliteraryfestival.com BC V0N 1P0 25th. 9780774824248 JOHN continued on page 36

35 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 WHO’SWHOBRITISHCOLUMBIA continued from page 35 more than fifty craft breweries—including a dozen brewpubs—and the release of Joe Wiebe’s Craft Beer Revolution: The In- is for O’Brian sider’s Guide to B.C. Breweries (D&M $19.95), launched during Vancouver Craft HAVING TAUGHT ART HISTORY AT UBC, Beer Week in June. 978-1-77100-115-1 John O’Brian has researched the engage- ment of photography with the nuclear era in North America and Japan, giving rise to Atomic Postcards: Radioactive Messages is for Crossing from the Cold War (Intellect $70), co- authored with Jeremy Borsos. It ex- IN BILL SCHERMBRUCKER’S FOURTH NOVEL, plores the way postcards were used to Crossing Second Narrows (iUniverse generate a public image of the bomb and S FOR SHERWOOD: Breaking trail for the HBC in January, 1914, George Milligan $20.95), he uses the bridge as a symbolic (in back) with Indian Albert and unidentified courier stop for a noon break, nuclear power between 1945 and 1989. near the Fort Nelson River. From In the Shadow of the Great War (RBCM). link between a white liberal professor at O’Brian is currently preparing a manuscript Capilano College, Alistair Randall, and a for UBC Press called Through a Radioac- Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Marxist professor of colour, Rashid Hassan, tive Lens and an exhibition for the Art Gal- Canada (UBC Press $95), co-edited by at SFU. Their relationship addresses the lery of Ontario called Camera Atomica, is for Roberts D.B. Tindall, an associate UBC profes- radical changes in post-secondary education which explores interconnections between sor in both the Department of Forest Re- that grew out of the anti-Vietnam War move- the camera and nuclear events. 9781841504315 sources Management and the Department ment and student rebellions at Berkeley, the IN KEVIN ROBERTS’ FOURTH NOVEL, THE of Sociology. 978-0-7748-2334-0 Sorbonne and elsewhere. Randall (like Winnowing Circle (Pilot Hill $8.82) a Schermbrucker, who also taught at Capilano young Greek woman and her Australian boy- University), was born in Kenya. Hassan was is for Pojar friend studying in England in 1972 return to born in India. 9781475964905 her family’s village in the Aegean Sea to see is for Unus IN 1974, BOTANIST JIM POJAR WAS ON HIS her communist father, who has just been re- way from Minnesota to UBC to start his leased from prison. Set in the uneasy and WHILE PURSUING AN Ph.D. when he discovered the subalpine and repressive period of the Greek military’s dic- interdisciplinary is for Yuen alpine meadows of Glacier Park in Mon- tatorship, the novel records the passionate Ph.D. at the Univer- tana. His supervisor in the botany depart- violence of resistance to the ruling fascists sity of Saskatchewan HAVING CO-FOUNDED THE VANCOUVER ment at UBC, Dr. Kay Beamish, turned on the island and the couples’ unavoidable in new media, plastic- Chinese Restaurant Awards, Hong Kong- out to be an alpine flower lover who recom- part in the local conflict. 978-1-77084-317-2 ity and empathy, born Stephanie Yuen has compiled East mended Manning Park’s alpine meadows as Mari-Lou Rowley Meets West: Traditional and Contem- one of his study sites. Almost 40 years later, Mari- Lou Rowley has released her eighth porary Asian Dishes from Acclaimed Pojar has realized his long-held dream of poetry collection, Unus Mundus (Anvil Vancouver Restaurants (D&M $29.95) to publishing Alpine Plants of British Co- is for Sherwood $18), a celebration of science as it provides recognize restaurants offering cuisine from lumbia, Alberta & Northwest North humanity with a new cosmic vision. China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philip- America (Lone Pine $29.95) with his friend AFTER THREE BOOKS ABOUT LEGENDARY 978-1-927380-44-4 pines, Thailand, Vietnam and India. Almost Andy MacKinnon and fellow botanists land surveyor, Frank Swannell, Jay one in five of Vancouver’s two million resi- Rosamund Pojar, Curtis Bjork and Sherwood dug deeper into surveying an- dents is ethnically Chinese. 978-1-55365-863-4 Hans Roemer. Also co-written with nals for In the Shadow of the Great War is for Vanderhoof Andy MacKinnon of the B.C. Forest Serv- (RBCM $19.95) retrieving the records of ice, Pojar’s Plants of Coastal B.C. has re- two overlooked, separate expeditions into HAVING MOVED TO VANDERHOOF IN 1953 portedly sold 250,000 copies. 978-1-55105-886-3 northeastern B.C. in 1913, filed away in the when she was eight years old, June Wood is for Zoë shadow of World War I. Whereas the young has followed her biographical tribute to her G.B. Milligan was a consummate profes- father as a wilderness homesteader and trap- ZOË LANDALE’S POETRY COLLECTION, sional; the much older E.B. Hart had never per, Nechako Country: In the Footsteps of Einstein’s Cat (Wolsak & Wynn $17) co- is for Qqs Project surveyed or even used a sextant. Sherwood Bert Irvine (Heritage 2007), with Home to incided with the completion of a home she recalls the disparate adventures of these two the Nechako: The River and the Land built with her husband Garnet Coburn A FIRE HAS DESTROYED THE THISTALALH men amid the muskeg and raging rivers of the (Heritage $17.95). As an advocate to pro- on Pender Island. Three years in the mak- Memorial Library in Bella Bella, a Heiltsuk westerly Peace region. 978-0-7726-6637-6 tect the Nechako River (its flow has been ing, their new digs feature a huge garden. “I First Nation literacy initiative. With its read- weakened to a trickle) she combines her per- am a passionate gardener who for years had ing room in the Koeye Café, this was the sonal story with the challenges wrought by to content myself only public library on the outer central coast the Kenney Dam, the Kemano Completion with a tiny walled of British Columbia, a 350-kilometre stretch is for Tindall Project and mountain pine beetle invasion. space in Rich- of coastline home to several remote native 9781927527146 mond,” she says. villages. Its collection of some 3,000 vol- IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE LANDMARK Along the way umes was an homage to late chief and elder, Nisga’a Treaty of 1998, more land use agree- Landale was Edward Martin, a passionate storyteller ments have been signed within the ongoing is for Wiebe named chair of who lent his traditional name, Thistalalh. BC Treaty process, resulting in increased the creative writ- To help replenish the Thistalalh Memorial Aboriginal participation in resource man- B.C.’S CRAFT BEER REVOLUTION BEGAN IN ing department at Library, contact the Qqs Projects Society, a agement in both B.C. and Canada, particu- 1982 when intrepid beer lovers Frank Kwantlen Heiltsuk charitable organization based in larly concerning forests. The rise of forest Appleton and John Mitchell built Polytechnic Bella Bella. companies managed by Aboriginal commu- Canada’s first microbrewery in Horseshoe Zoë Landale University. www.Qqsprojects.org or www.rebuildbellabella.tumblr.com nities is one of the phenomena examined in Bay in 1982. That has led to a flourishing of 978-1-894987-67-7

The Strange Possession at Viner Sound Alcuin A novel by Robin Percival Smith Society This is a story of spiritual possession and reincarnation that uses the traditional cul- Printing Fair WAYZGOOSE ture of the Kwakiutl aboriginals on the Brit- Limited editions books and demonstrations ish Columbia west coast. The spirit of Jojo, a young Kwakiutl boy, possesses Matti, a Sat, Oct 5, 2013, 10 to 4 pm single handing sailor on board his sailing vessel, Windsong, to tell of his captivity at a secret Japanese radio base on the west At the Vancouver Public Library, coast during WWII. 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver CONTACT: [email protected] www.robinpercivalsmith.wordpress.com www.createspace.com/3648661 for story Admission Free synopsis and author biography. The Vancouver Public Library ISBN 10: 1478320745 • ISBN 13: 9781478320746 The book may be downloaded from Kindle bookstore. Nbef qpttjcmf uispvhi uif ‡obodjbm bttjtubodf pg uif Qspwjodf pg Csjujti Dpmvncjb

36 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 PRINTERS & SERVICES

Q uality is not an act, it is a habit. BC’s Book Printing Experts Aristotle Short-Run For More Than 100 Years Hard/Soft Covers Family owned B & W Books And operated Full Colour Books Marketing Materials TOLL FREE: 1.800.661.3332 TEL: 250.385.9786 FAX: 250.380.1622 WWW.PRINTORIUMBOOKWORKS.COM 911 FORT ST., VICTORIA B.C. V8V 3K3

Subscribe Self-Publish.ca To receive the next 4 issues by mail, send a cheque for $25

Name ......

Apt/Box #...... Visit our website to find out all you need to know about Street...... self-publishing ...... The Vancouver Desktop City...... Publishing Centre call for a free consultation Prov/...... PATTY OSBORNE, manager Code...... 4360 Raeburn Street North Vancouver, B.C. v7g 1k3 Ph 604-929-1725 REPLY TO: 3516 West 13th Ave, www.self-publish.ca Vancouver, B.C. V6R 2S3 helping self-publishers since 1986

Printing quality books to meet your most difficult time line!

Houghton BostonHoughton Printers Boston Phone: (306)(306) 664-3458664-3458 709 43rd Street709 East,43rd Saskatoon,Street East SK S7K 0V7 Fax: (306)(306) 665-1027665-1027 Saskatoon, SK S7K 0V7 Email: [email protected]@houghtonboston.com

37 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 LETTERS

(Collingwood Books). Terrific: Poster boy for the two things that almost everyone does badly but persists at anyway. Jim Sutherland, Vancouver Content, not tech THANK YOU FOR INVENTING YOUR QUICKIES AD section for self-publishers. Yours is the only literary publication I’ve encountered that doesn’t make me feel my book is doomed if I’m not promoting it through every avail- able artery of social media. Can’t tell you how helpful that is to me. Ken and Gloria Everyone wants to convince me that new Hatfield, Page’s technology is vital. My brother gave me a Resort and Marina cell phone some years ago for Christmas. I Bookstore, thanked him and asked why. He said “Think Gabriola Island of it—now when we’re in the ferry line-up we’ll know if we’re both on the same boat!” I said “But we always know because we always find each other in the cafeteria.” He Booksellers’Booksellers’ CornerCorner said, “Yah, but we’ll know SOONER!” (To WANTED be fair, he was chuckling by then.) Gently Used Books Favourite New OMG & Jameson When I read B.C. BookWorld, I feel there is hope for those of us who value content (CDs, DVDs, LPs too) for Local Book: JUST RETURNED FROM VPL WITH MY COPY Friends of the VPL BOG TENDER: Coming Home of Mortality by Christopher Hitchens (not over technology. to Nature and Memory a B.C. writer) and a copy of BC BookWorld. Margit Hesthammar, USED BOOK SALE by Gabriolan George Szanto OMG, why am I not a subscriber? As a Gabriola/Vancouver [Websiteless Margit Hesthammar is a writ- Sorry NO encyclopaedias (Brindle and Glass $24.95) completely stalled writer and B.C. history ing teacher and career transition counseller Drop off until Oct. 16 fan, it’s far better than most of the stuff I Bestselling end up with in my hold folder at VPL... And whose new book is called Choosing Work at Dunbar, Oakridge, Local Book: I can read it all in two glasses of Jameson’s. Before Work Chooses You.] Renfrew Branches or Central A Pacific Alphabet – Art by Gabriolan Almost. Thank you for a brave and inspir- (delivery bay off Hamilton M-F 10-4) Healthy brain Diana Bonder & text by Margriet ing magazine. Cheque’s in the mail. CONGRATULATIONS ON A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL, Info: 604 331.4049 or Ruurs (Walrus Books $9.95) John Harris, Vancouver friendsofthevpl.ca dynamic and very readable newspaper. I read my last issue on the BC Ferries and FRIENDS’ Used Book Sale Favourite BC Dear not dim what a service to read amongst all the hype Oct. 24 - 26 Central Library Backlist Title: THAT WAS A LOVELY L FOR LEVITT [SUMMER of a busy world something to nurture my BCBW] in the paper. My wife brought it PLEASE BOX or BAG & LABEL The Toothpaste Genie by Gabriolan soul, and free at that. I am so glad you are “FRIENDS” Sandy Frances Duncan (Scholastic home and showed it to me yesterday. Very not going digital. My friend Gary Anaka, Proceeds from sale donated to $5.99). Those who read it when they dear acknowledgement of the work. Thank Vancouver Public Library who is a brain coach and who wrote Brain were young are buying it for their kids. you so much. I’ll send a scanned copy on to Wellness says that we develop a healthy the publishers at Shambhala Publications brain when flipping pages and a lazy brain so they see one important way we do things when we go digital. here in B.C. to keep literature out in front of And thank you for your abcbookworld peoples’ eyes. Please keep going. Your work reference site on which you have represented is a bright spot in a dimming landscape. me so well. Wishing you all the best for the Peter Levitt, Saltspring Island next 25 years. Please do not think of retiring! Lagging at 92 Alida Hilbrander, White Lake I AM ALWAYS AMAZED AT THE PAGES OF We’re crammin’ information that every issue of B.C. THANKS FOR SQUEEZING MY NON-FICTION BOOK BookWorld contains. You put a lot of effort into the obviously very crammed Summer into keeping all of us so well informed! I fiction edition. It’s a hard slog with self- was sorry to read about the D&M publishing; even with commercial presses “schmozzle” [Spring BCBW] but it seems it’s hard to get space and attention. I can’t that newer and adventuresome publishers even make it into my home town press, for are showing up to replace them. whatever reason. 20 plus Our local writers group is presently hav- These days I’m exploring the quite in- ing sessions on the modern methods of self- credible new novel by Ruth Ozeki, A Tale varieties publishing. I find myself lagging at making for the Time Being, mentioned in the Sum- that change. I will just sit back and enjoy mer issue, as well as Hiromi Goto, another some summer sunshine and read B.C. gifted Japanese B.C. writer. BookWorld instead! Graham E. Fuller, Squamish Jean E. Speare, Quesnel [Jean E. Speare, born in 1921 and raised Halfmooners south of Quesnel, wrote the first in-depth ON BEHALF OF THE HALFMOON BAY WRITERS book about a First Nations woman in B.C., Workshop, many thanks for sending copies The Days of Augusta, in 1973.] of BC BookWorld’s Spring edition. As a small corner of B.C.’s literary scene, we ap- Rocket ricochet preciate the opportunity to stay abreast of THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO PROMOTE what’s happening on the news front. Your B.C. authors and books so proudly, consist- continued support of B.C. writers is amaz- ently and comprehensively! I picked up my ing! In 2011, we published a collection, copy at the ferry from Saltspring yesterday Halfmoon Rising (TwinEagles Press). and was again amazed at the number and A.S.Penne, Halfmoon Bay diversity of the authors and books covered. Thanks also for mentioning my new and Correction first kids’ illustrated book, The Rainbow ACCIDENTS DO HAPPEN, WE KNOW. WE NOTICED Rocket, which will hopefully get the mes- you ran a photo of someone who is NOT sage out to families who are coping with Dede Crane, the author of Every Happy Alzheimer’s Disease. Please note, my au- Family published by Coteau Books in the thor’s proceeds are going to The most recent issue [Summer BCBW]. Alzheimer’s Society of B.C., rather #5 - 1046 Mason St. Victoria, B.C. V8T 1A3 Could you please run Dede’s real than the national organization. photo? We’d really appreciate it. (just off Cook Street) • Tel: 1-250-384-0905 Fiona Tinwei Lam, Vancouver April Bourgeois , Regina Hand sorted for premium quality • Full selection of exotic teas 50 shades of green • B.C. honey and Belgian chocolates • Mail orders welcome Letters / emails: BC BookWorld, I WAS STARTLED TO SEE MY PICTURE www.yokascoffee.com 3516 W. 13th Ave., Van., BC V6R 2S3 along with the headline “Golf Sex” [email protected] in your Summer fiction issue, which Letters may be edited for Check out Gardens Aflame: Garry Oak Meadows of BC's South Coast by Maleea Acker The real Dede Crane heralded my novel, Snap Slice clarity & length.

38 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 QUICKIES A COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD FOR INDEPENDENTS QUICKIES is an affordable advertising vehicle for writers, artists & events. For info on how to be included: [email protected] engleson.ca [email protected] triciadower.com erbrown.com luisellagarlick.com Now in BookCasePublishing.org Paperback

ORDER: http://friesenpress-accounts.appspot.com/ bookstore/title/119734000010096607

Like a Child to Home Almost Criminal by E. R. Brown Distance by Bill Engleson The Capizzi Madonna Produced by Stony River Follow the lives of a brooding, Living In Paradise “Funny and twisted in the JVA Press, by Valerie Ethier sporadically up-beat, old-time social same vein as Breaking Bad (but by Luisella Levi Garlick a small by Tricia Dower by Heather Hughes very Canadian on the crime) …. Eleven short stories explore how worker and an overwhelmed, single Mixing the memoirs of an Italian publisher in unexpected or unwelcome events “a powerful coming-of-age novel… mother of two teenagers. Doing what Peter Mayle did for This is Brown’s debut and Victoria. Dower is a masterful storyteller to Provence, here are the joys of living it’s an auspicious one.” partisan in World War II with play out in everyday life. 978-1-4602-1929-4 (HC) $24.99 watch.”—THE GLOBE AND MAIL in Saanich on Vancouver Island. — Margaret Cannon, Globe & Mail modern day capers and romance. 978-1-4602-1928-7 (PB) $16.99 CREATIVE SHORT ISBN 978-0-9869524–0-I NOVEL ISBN 978-0143182481 • $16 NOVEL 978-1-4602-1930-0 (eBook) $4.49 NON-FICTION ISBN 978-0-9880170-0-9 • $24.95 NOVEL ISBN 978-1459705838 • $17.99 NOVEL ISBN 978-1481966320 • $19.99 STORIES $20 (plus shipping) Friesenpress.com • Amazon.ca • Chapters.ca ekstasiseditions.com emilymadill.com garybotting.ca Your

ad theboywhopaints.ca The Boy Who Paints by Richard Cole & here. K. Jane Watt Streaking! The Collected Poems of Gary Botting “After reading this by Gary Botting UBERMENSCH Call book, your kid will Do Dogs Think by Manolis AVAILABLE: Captain Joe & by Keith Field Here collected for the first time are 604-736-4011 want a paintbrush.” Amazon, Grateful Jake Gary Botting’s hundreds of Poetry that celebrates the imperfect — Kirkus Reviews Barnes & Stories filled with humour, love, sex, published poems, “lyrical, satirical, perfection of the imperfect chaos, or email Noble by Emily Madill suspense and trauma in situations sentimental, sexperimental, abstract, energetic and lucid philosophic & Chapters that reveal our humanness. 380 pages ISBN 9780991714605 concrete — with and without feet.” meditations on being human. [email protected] Confidence boosting books for kids. HC: 978-4602-0377-4 • $30.99 $20 hardcover SHORT SC: 978-4602-0375-0 • $16.99 POETRY ISBN 978-1-62516-309-7 • $15.95 POETRY ISBN 978-1-897430-97-2 • $24.95 KIDLIT KIDLIT ISBN 978-0981257907•$11.95 each STORIES e-Book: 978-4602-0376-7 • $2.99 amazon.ca PowellRiverBooks.com gailboulanger.com debilynsmith.com gailboulanger.com fentonstreet.ca

Places of Her Heart The Art and Life of Barbara Boldt by K. Jane Watt Life Goes On FINALIST 2012 The Listener This biography of B.C. painter Available: Running From Cancer Adventures Over Sixty Losing, letting go & living again Ingram & GRAPHIC by David Lester Barbara Boldt contains over 200 A tilted memoir Off the Grid by Gail Boulanger by Gail Boulanger paintings. A lavish memoir of the amazon.ca NOVEL “A dense and fiercely Health, Coastal BC Stories Reflections on living and aging challenges and joys of a career as a by DebiLyn Smith How to gently and effectively of the YEAR intelligent work... all in a Women or wholeheartedly; greeting each navigate your way through grief — FOREWORD woman painter in Canada. It is an Northern BC survivor says: “You can by Wayne J. Lutz lyrical and stirring tone.” Cancer new challenge as an adventure. and loss. Distributed by Red REVIEWS inspiring story — perfect for giving. category run, but you can't hide. Learn why Life off the grid, accessible only — Publishers Weekly (NY) SELF Distributed by Red Tuque Books. SELF Tuque Books. GRAPHIC ART HC: 9781553833314 • $50 and how to fight back now!” TRAVEL by boat. A travel memoir HELP ISBN 978-0-9730802-3-0 • $22.95 HELP ISBN 978-0-9730802-1-6 • $22.95 NOVEL ISBN 9781894037488 $19.95 MEMOIR SC: 9781553833321 • $30 MEMOIR ISBN 978-0-9919093-0-8 • $19 MEMOIR ISBN 978-1478333326 • $19.95 salmovapress.com yalepress.yale.edu [email protected] eberhardtpress.org BrotherXII.com “well documented strayfeathers.ca with footnotes” — Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site review

Revised Edition!

Scratching the Who Killed Abraham Tiger’s Belly Lincoln by Paul Serup “beautifully The Kurrajong Tree by Ron Sakolsky An investigation of North America’s written Subverting Exclusion Brother XII most famous ex-priest’s assertion and deeply by Andrea Geiger by Elinor Martin Alaska Cruise A collection of hidden histories, that the Roman Catholic Church by John Oliphant rebel poems, prickly rants, black engaging” Japanese immigrant encounters A true family tale that reads Wildlife Watch was behind the assassination of WESTERN like an epic adventure story. The strange odyssey of a 20th-century humour, subversive stories, HISTORICAL with race, caste, and borders in the America’s greatest president. QUARTERLY prophet & his quest for a new world. by Bruce Whittington provocative parables and ideas. North American West, 1885 to 1928. BIO- Order from Amazon.ca • 428 pp. BIO- GUIDE IDEAS HISTORY ISBN 978-0-9811685-0-0 • $29.95 HISTORY ISBN 9780300169638 • $45 GRAPHY ISBN 978-0-9878243-0-1 • $29.95 GRAPHY ISBN 978-0978097202 • $24.95 BOOK ISBN 978-0-9782913-2-7 • $14.95 IN ACTION ISBN 111-0-00009-248-1 • $9.95

INDEX TO ADVERTISE & reach Jewish Book Festival...5 Quickies...39 100,000 readers 604-736-4011 Kootenay Writers...18 Ronsdale Press...4, 25 BC TO ADVERTISERS [email protected] BOOKWORLD Leaf Press...31 Royal BC Museum...26 Libros Libertad Publishing...33 Self-Counsel Press...15 Alcuin Society...36 Fernwood / Roseway Publishing...33 Literary Press Group...24 SFU Writers Studio...30 Anvil Press...26 Figure 1 Publishing...19 Mother Tongue Publishing...32 Sidney Booktown...35 Annick Press...26 Friends of VPL...38 NeWest Press...24 Smith, Robert Percival...36 Arsenal Pulp Press...16 Friesens Printers...37 New Society Publishers...14 Sono Nis Press...8 Banyen Books...35 Galiano Island Books...35 New Star Books...28 Sub-Terrain Magazine...32 BC Book Prizes...32 Gabriola Island Authors...6 Orca Books...2 Talonbooks...17 BC Historical Federation...32 Greystone Books...30 Pacific Educational Press...24 Theytus Books...13 Caitlin Press...10 Harbour Publishing...40 Playwrights Canada Press...33 UBC Press...27 Coteau Books...24 Hedgerow Press...24 Polestar Calendars...28 Vancouver Desktop...37 Doubleday Canada...12 The Heritage Group of Publishers...22 Printorium/Island Blue...37 Vancouver International Writers Festival...4 Douglas College/EVENT...32 Hignell Printing...37 Promontory Press...7 Whistler Readers & Writers Festival...5 Douglas & McIntyre...21 Houghton Boston...37 Proud Horse Publishing...38 Yoka’s Coffee...38

39 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013 40 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2013