Grieving Museum curator Margaret returns to her childhood home to leave behind her sister Shirley’s ashes and attend the final reading of her will. Unbeknownst to Margaret, Shirley has left her eight million dollars and a letter asking Margaret to return to its former glory an abandoned railway line–a fanciful notion, everyone tells her, with no real legal binding.
The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) weaves the stories of a group of women committed to helping one another. Despite abuse experienced by some, both in their own community and in residential schools, these women learn to celebrate their culture, its stories, its dancing, its drums, and its elders.
Instead of having fun on a school field trip to the mountains, 13-year-old Andrea has to spend the weekend with her family at a boring wedding in boring Moose Jaw. Her interest isn’t even piqued by stories of when gangsters and gamblers hid in secret tunnels below Moose Jaw streets.
It seems that the majority of Canada’s writers live either on our East or West …
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*** About the Author: Ron Stansfield is a transplanted prairie person now living “upshore” in …