‘Think of the book as a river’
“The lines are tough and full of bones, like dried salmon, but respond well to chewing”: epic in size and scope, a posthumous volume grapples with literary and cultural inheritance, as well as the desecrations of BC’s colonial-capitalist history. —Harold Rhenisch reviews Recarving the Chrysoprase Bowl (The Book of Gates, Vol. 1), by Tom McGauley (Afterword by Luke Franklin) (Moncton: Galleon Books, 2025) $29.99 / 9781998122080
