EXCERPT: Growing My Way Home

“From the raw hardships of a pregnant runaway to the enduring strength of her Indigenous roots, Jenn Ashton’s (l.) Growing My Way Home traces a  journey of resilience and the hard-won gift of empathy.” FULL STORY



 

 

 

 

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Psychological misconduct

Bill Koch’s debut novel Hired Gun: Uncovering Buried Secrets (FriesenPress $21.99) is steeped in insider knowledge of physician misconduct and… FULL STORY

Colonial wear and tear

Following on from her breakout poetry collection about zombies, eat salt | gaze at the ocean (Talonbooks, 2020), which was shortlisted for… FULL STORY

Making a person

by Neil McKinnon My mind can make a person. But my mind is feeble. It cannot make a new person…. FULL STORY

Sarah Louise Butler Q&A

Sarah Louise Butler published her debut novel, The Wild Heavens (D&M, 2020) about how a little girl and her grandfather discover… FULL STORY

Stumbling toward redemption

Many of the characters in Bill Gaston’s (at right) eighth collection, Tunnel Island (Thistledown $24.95), have dark backstories. Others lead… FULL STORY

Stumbling toward redemption

Many of the characters in Bill Gaston’s eighth collection, Tunnel Island (Thistledown $24.95), have dark backstories. Others lead unconventional, eccentric… FULL STORY

A hockey origins tale

In a retelling of the origins of hockey through an Indigenous lens, the late Musqueam elder and storyteller, Henry Charles… FULL STORY

Bruce McIvor interview

Intro: Aboriginal law expert and advocate for Indigenous rights, Bruce McIvor is also the author of two books that provide… FULL STORY

Stop global warming now

When retired microbiologist W. “Tom” Thomson Martin (at right) hears someone responding to the growing environmental climate catastrophe with the… FULL STORY

Indigenous social work

Stitching Our Stories Together: Journeys Into Indigenous Social Work (University of Regina Press $34.95), due out in February, is a… FULL STORY

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