Here, Skeet’s invasion of white space picks up where Eyes Bottle Dark left off and begins with the haunting image of a herd of 191 free-roaming horses found dead, thigh and neck-deep at a stock pond on the Navajo Nation, evaporated through extreme drought caused by “decades-long aggression by the United States and the changing climate”.
Sincerely Katherine: Life, Gender, Inclusivity and Leadership for the Future by Katherine Dudtschak is a memoir that is synthesizing the past in order to better live the future. As the subtitle indicates, through Katherine’s story she frames a way forward for a better society. Personally, I like what I don’t know anything about, so Katherine’s …
As if arriving fresh from the fever dream of her sensational memoir Drunk Mom Jowita Bydlowska sways toward us with a new tale, a different one, and on the first page she is as drunk as ever, but just as surefooted in her prose.
I was very intrigued by Vessel, Dani Netherclift’s work on the drowning deaths of her father and brother.
A “Child of War” could not be more timely and necessary, an urgent SOS message in a time capsule coming to warn us about the horrors that inevitably and sadly repeat themselves as history.
Nothing at All, Olivia Tapiero’s collection of vignettes exploring loss, illness, desire, and pain was translated from French by Kit Schluter for this edition.
Through letters to his firstborn daughter, Jaya, Dhillon shares his experiences as a brown-skinned Canadian breaking through an industry that still cries for more diversity and inclusion.
Ken Wilson’s Walking the Bypass is a redemptive journey through some of the least redeeming landscapes an urban walker might visit. Part of what makes the book compelling is how well its style matches its subject.
As with movies that start gritty and move to hope or start sunlit and move to grim, this book has an arc starting quiet and small and becoming more vivid and joyful as it progresses, as if affirming to live every day.
Echo Maker is the portrait of a memorable personality, an insight into his unusual family life and his career in the outdoors, and, almost as a bonus, a detailed account of adventure expeditions based on traditional Aboriginal routes and techniques.
Gillian brings forth the notion that we, as humans, try to seek control and predictability because it makes us feel comfortable. She explains that while we all feel uneasy with life’s uncertainties, we often fail to recognize that most others feel the same way.
Gammel traces her way through Montgomery’s life, journals, and early works to determine the leads for how Anne of Green Gables was born, and how Montgomery related to Anne throughout her life.
The title of Danielle Deveraux’s book The Chrome Chair comes from a quote the poet heard at the Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society Symposium in 2003:
“We were promised a seat at the table of nations: what we got was a chrome chair” (5).
Something to Hold Onto: Simple Metaphors, Images, and Practical Tools to Transform Your Life is a personal and relatable look at life, struggles and the grief we all endure to come out on top.
What I wasn’t expecting about In the Field was just how much I love it. It is a remarkable book: thoughtful, nuanced, beautifully written, and thoroughly researched.
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