Winter 2020 Catalogue
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CAITLIN PRESS WHERE URBAN MEETS RURAL AND HOME OF DAGGER EDITIONS WINTER 2020 Chad Reimer Christina Myers ed. Susan Smith-Josephy & Irene Bjerky, C'eyxkn B.A. Thomas-Peter Yvonne Blomer ed. Betsy Warland Kim Goldberg PRAISE “Irene Kelleher and her family persevered with dignity in the face of racism; their stories link us to the fur trade, gold rush and settlement of the province. Indeed, these Invisible Generations helped forge a modern British Columbia. They should be celebrated, not forgotten.” —Mark Forsythe, former CBC British Columbia broadcaster “[In Escape to the Wild,] Hejlskov risks it all for what she believes in and gives us a rare and raw look at the fight it took to try and build a life in the wilderness.” —Nikki van Schyndel, author of Becoming Wild “Rising Tides uses words on climate change to name it, tame it and act as science tells us to, before it is too late—I commend Catriona Sandilands for bringing together this diverse group of people that honoured climate change through these words.” — Dr. Catherine Potvin, Canada Research Chair in Climate Change Mitigation and Tropical Forest (Tier 1) “[In On/Me,] Cunningham doesn’t pull her punches, but they are quick, stinging hits, captur- ing difficult realities, the in-between worlds of belonging and not, of bearing the assumptions that make us a part of a group or alone. The dangerous smoulder of her mind is masterfully harnessed to clarity, illuminating pain and turbulence without being tragic.” —Eden Robinson, author of Trickster Drift “[Baird’s] dazzling, precise lines reveal a vital poetics that grows out of ordinary landscapes to transform the text into a balm for insight, healing, and articulation. Winter’s Cold Girls is a startling and resplendent poetic offering.” —Gwen Benaway, award-winning writer & author of Holy Wild “[In How She Read,] Gibson turns the very act of reading into a form of resistance, and by the end of this potent collection, a means to liberation...” —Safa Jinje, Quill & Quire “Emma McKenna’s Chenille or Silk is a cliché buster, a conscious act of disruption. Just as the atom acts as a microcosm of the universe, each of her stanzas reflects the larger whole of the collection, each line surprising in its own way, tenderly formed.” —Jaclyn Desforges, Hamilton Arts & Letters Contact Caitlin Press 8100 Alderwood Road, Halfmoon Bay, BC, V0N 1Y1 604-885-9194 | caitlin-press.com | [email protected] facebook: @caitlinbooks | twitter: @caitlinpress | instagram: @caitlinpress.daggereditions WHERE URBAN THE TRIALS OF ALBERT STROEBEL LOVE, MURDER AND JUSTICE AT THE END OF THE FRONTIER by Chad Reimer One murder. Nine months. Two trials. Chad Reimer weaves a captivating tale of murder in early British Columbia as a young man tries desperately to dodge the hangman’s noose. On a dreary morning in April, 1893, John Marshall, a Portuguese immigrant and successful farmer on Sumas Prairie in British Columbia, was found lying sprawled across the veranda of his farmhouse, his body cold and lifeless. Two days later, a local handy- man named Albert Stroebel was arrested for Mar- shall’s murder. Stroebel was an unlikely killer: short and physically disabled, locals considered him a harm- 1 less “boy” who seemed much younger than his twenty years, and they were shocked to imagine that he could have killed the man who had treated him like family. 0 But something had gone tragically wrong on the 2 0 2 night Marshall died. Unravelling the mystery would take nine months and two lengthy trials that seized r e the attention of local communities on both sides of t n the Canadian-American border. Newspapers devoted i W page after page of coverage and throngs of spectators squeezed into the courtroom galleries. The first trial — in New Westminster ended with the jury hopelessly s deadlocked. The heaviest hitters of BC’s political and s e legal establishment took part including former and r True Crime / Regional History P current premiers, an Attorney General, and a future ISBN: 978-177386-020-6 n i Supreme Court justice. l 6" x 9", 256 pages, paperback t When the second trial ended with a guilty verdict i black and white photos a and death sentence many in the public howled in C protest, convinced that a young man had been con- $24.95 demned to die for a crime he did not commit. And the dramatic events would not stop there. With the Available March 2, 2020 condemned man sitting on death row, the case would take more twists and turns that would lead Albert TRU010000 Stroebel to the shadow of the gallows. TRUE CRIME / Chad Reimer has a BA Honours in History from UBC, Historical and an MA and PhD in History from York University. He is the author of Before We Lost the Lake: A Natu- BIO024000 ral and Human History of Sumas Valley, published by BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Caitlin Press, which received an honorable mention Criminals & Outlaws in the 2019 British Columbia Historical Federation’s Historical Writing Competition. He also wrote Chilli- HIS006020 wack’s Chinatowns for the Chinese Canadian Histori- HISTORY / cal Society of BC and Writing British Columbia History with UBC Press. Reimer has been published in BC His- Canada / Post-Confederation (1867–) tory, Pacific Northwest Quarterly and a number of other journals. He lives in Abbotsford, BC. MEETS RURAL BIG STORIES ABOUT LIFE IN PLUS-SIZED BODIES edited by Christina Myers Finally a book about the diverse and intimate experi- ence of being large in a culture obsessed with thin- ness. Pop culture stereotypes, shopping frustrations, fat jokes, and misconceptions about health are all ways society systemically rejects large bodies. BIG is a col- lection of personal and intimate experiences of plus size women, non-binary and trans people in a soci- ety obsessed with thinness. Revealing insights that are both funny and traumatic, surprising and chal- 2 lenging, familiar and unexpected, 26 writers explore themes as diverse as self perception, body image, fashion, fat activism, food, sexuality, diet culture, 0 2 motherhood and more. These stories offer a closer 0 look at what it means to navigate a world designed to 2 r fit bodies of a certain size (sometimes literally) and, e t in turn, invites readers to ask questions about—and n i ultimately reconsider—our collective and individual W obsession with women’s bodies. — Contributors include Rohini Bannerjee, Amanda s Scriver, Cassie Stocks, Jo Jefferson, Layla Cameron, s e r Rabbit Richards, Sonja Boon, Simone Blais, Tracy P Manrell and other writers from across Canada, the n Non Fiction / Anthology i US, and the UK. l t ISBN: 978-1-77386-021-3 i a 6" x 9", 240 pages, paperback Christina Myers is an award-winning newspaper C $24.95 journalist turned freelance writer and editor. After leaving her long-time newsroom post, she turned Available January 31, 2020 her attention to more creative work, including both fiction and narrative non-fiction (and sometimes, se- SOC010000 cretly, poetry too.) She holds degrees in journalism SOCIAL SCIENCE / and psychology from TRU and UBC, respectively, and Feminism & Feminist Theory is an alumnus of the Writer’s Studio at SFU. She is a fan of vintage collectibles and big dresses with deep SOC028000 pockets, she juggles parenthood and creative work SOCIAL SCIENCE / from her home outside Vancouver, BC. Women’s Studies LIT003000 LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist WHERE URBAN CATALINE UNCOVERING THE LIFE OF BC’S LEGENDARY PACKER by Susan Smith-Josephy and Irene Bjerky, C'eyxkn Gold rushes, telegraph lines and railroads—Smith- Josephy reaches into BC’s pioneering past to share intriguing stories featuring famous mule train packer, Jean “Cataline” Caux. In the early days of British Columbia, pack trains of horses or mules were a lifeline for the early pioneer population. Pack mule train drivers followed trails created by the First Nations people and later by the fur trading companies, to travel between settlements in the rugged backcountry. The most famous of all the men who ran the pack trains was Jean Caux, who would enter British Columbia’s history as the legend- 3 ary packer “Cataline”. Cataline came to British Columbia in 1858 and es- 0 tablished a pack train operation that grew to be one 2 of the most well-known and reliable in the province, 0 2 including securing contracts with the government r and Hudson’s Bay Company. e t Cataline witnessed many of the pioneering events n i that shaped the province, including the Fraser River W Gold Rush of 1858, the Cariboo Gold Rush of 1862, the coming of the railway to Ashcroft in 1886, and — the Grand Trunk Pacific to Hazelton in 1912. Cataline s s also crossed paths with significant historical figures Biography / Regional History e ISBN: 978-1-77386-024-4 r such as Judge Matthew Begbie, famed anthropolo- P gist James Teit, and Amelia York (née Paul, daugh- 5.5" x 7.5", 240 pages, paperback n i l ter of Chief Kowpelst (Telxkn) of the Nlaka'pamux black and white photos t i people of Spuzzum), a world-famous First Nations $22.95 a basketmaker, with whom Cataline had two children. C In Cataline, the legend and life of the man has Available February 21, 2020 been remembered in the words of his friends, his family, and those who chronicled the times and de- BIO023000 velopment of the province. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Susan Smith-Josephy is a writer, researcher, and Adventurers & Explorers genealogist. She trained as a journalist at Langara College and worked for a number of small-town BIO006000 newspapers in BC. She has a degree in history from BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Simon Fraser University.