Set on and near the Okanagan Indian Reserve during the summer of ’68, a graceful novel captures the wonders and joys as well as the pains and missteps of sixteen-year-old Lewis Toma. —Trish Bowering reviews Bones of a Giant, by Brian Thomas Isaac (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2025) $35.00 / 9781039011779
The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their Country: The Centennial of 1967 by Tom Hawthorn Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre, 2017 $26.95 / 9781771621502 Reviewed by Forrest D. Pass First published May 27, 2017 * Tom Hawthorn collects groovy images of 1967 and recreates Canada’s centennial zeitgeist in The Year Canadians Lost Their…
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