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What Was Said to Me: The Life of Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman by Ruby Peter in collaboration with Helene Demers

June 22, 2021 by Ramona Porter

A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation.

Chiru Sakura-Falling Cherry Blossoms: A Mother & Daughter’s Journey through Racism, Internment and Oppression by Grace Eiko Thompson

June 6, 2021 by Rachel Fernandes

At eight years old, Grace Eiko Nishikihama was forcibly removed from her Vancouver home and interned with her parents and siblings in the BC Interior. Chiru Sakura--Falling Cherry Blossoms is a moving and politically outspoken memoir written by Grace, now a grandmother, with passages from a journal kept by her late mother, Sawae Nishikihama.

The East Side Of It All, by Joseph Dandurand

January 13, 2021 by Patricia Sandberg

The East Side of It All draws on Joseph Dandurand’s first-hand experiences of life as a drug user and single-room occupant in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and of the ongoing process of healing through reconnection with family, the natural world and traditional Indigenous (Kwantlen) storytelling.

Skin House by Michael Blouin

May 21, 2020 by Patricia Sandberg

Skin House got me with this line on its back cover: “Skin House is a story about two guys who end up in the same bar they started out in.” I thought, sweet, a kind of modern Waiting for … Continue reading

Cheap Thrills: A Novel by David Kloepfer

March 27, 2020 by Bill Arnott

Cheap Thrills takes place over the course of a single weekend, beginning with the incessantly stoned Ethan and his roommate Phil discovering the body of their weed dealer in a Vancouver alley alongside a box of porno magazines and crime noir paperbacks.

The Girl Who Stole Everything by Norman Ravvin

June 3, 2021March 10, 2020 by Allan Hudson

Norman Ravvin skillfully weaves his story with images of the past and present in Vancouver and a small village in Poland.

Bill Arnott’s Beat: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Writers’ Collective

February 10, 2020 by Bill Arnott

A clink and scrape of flatware on plates. Lips smack. A bronchial cough. Huge potted fichus stoop at the ceiling, the look of good-natured green giants. I have a fifty-cent cup of coffee, which is not a Curtis Jackson reference. That’s the price of coffee at the Carnegie Centre in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), for those of us who belong.

Elemental by Kate Braid

January 29, 2020 by Bill Arnott

Elemental is a poignant, intelligent collection that asks us to look more closely at ourselves and the details that construct our rich and delicate world.

Butterfly by John Delacourt

June 3, 2021October 15, 2019 by James M. Fisher

At the heart of John Delacourt's Butterfly is a simple enough story: blackmail and robbery gone very wrong with the principle characters fleeing the law as well as each other. But there is much more to Butterfly, for it is an exceptional literary crime-suspense novel.