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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Oct 2013
ISBN:9780889822948
publisher:
Oolichan Books
Description
It is 1983. On the streets of Vancouver women's libbers are marching. In the forests of the northern interior a tapped out logging contractor is slowly going broke. Down the road, on a small stump ranch, Adare and Dave Wilkins face the fact that they have given the best years of their lives to a farm that can never support them. In a tumultuous time, when ancient values are being put to the test and found wanting, a scattered family is forced into an uneasy proximity by the need to make end-of-life decisions for their dying mother. Exploring the forces that shape individuals, families and communities Loggers' Daughters weaves the story of one logging family onto the tapestry of the industry that built British Columbia.
About the Author
Maureen Brownlee was born on the western slope of the northern Rockies. A former journalist, she has also worked as an outfitter’s cook, a trail guide, a bookkeeper and an employment counsellor. For ten years she was variously publisher, editor, reporter, photographer, graphic designer and janitor for a weekly community newspaper. She studied literature and creative writing at UNBC and the Open University. Cambium Blue is her second novel; her first was Loggers’ Daughters (Oolichan Books, 2013). Brownlee lives near Valemount, BC.
Contributor Notes
Maureen Brownlee was born and raised on the western slope of the northern Rockies. She has lived and worked in various BC communities, always returning to her mountain home. Though largely self-taught, her writing has greatly benefited from the tutelage of the talented writers who sustain western Canada's creative writing workshops. Loggers' Daughters is her first novel.
Editorial Review
"An epic novel set in the forests of the Rocky Mountain trench - a part of BC that has long been waiting for its definitive reflection in fiction. Loggers' Daughters accomplishes this with a story so gripping, and a writing style so evocative, it will surely become a Canadian classic." ~ Andreas Schroeder, Renovating Heaven
