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July 14, 2010

Book Review: Review of "The Orphan Boy" by Tolowa M. Mollel
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Book Review: Review of "Century" by Ray Smith
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Future of the Family

John Lent (Author)
So It Won't Go Away. Thistledown Press
Marci Denesiuk (Author)
The Far Away Home. NeWest Press
Aaron Bushkowsky (Author)
The Vanishing Man. Cormorant Books

Reviewed by Paul Denham

Three books of stories by western Canadian writers indicate the range and energy of the short story in Canada. A lot of movement exists in these stories—though people occasionally move south, north, or even east, most of the time Eastern Canadians move west and Western Canadians move farther west. But west is an ambiguous direction for Canadians, leading sometimes to freedom and hope, sometimes (particularly in Aaron Bushkowsky’s book) to darkness and death. Families figure largel […more…]