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03348aam a2200421 i 4500 001 0081E9CE01A811EDB8EAEDD844ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220712010056 008 210216t20212021bccb 000 f eng 020 $a 1990071023 020 $a 9781990071027 040 $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a n-cn-bc $a n-cn-bc 050 4 $a PR9199.4.I83 $b A75 2021 082 04 $a C813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Isaac, Brian Thomas, $e author. 245 10 $a All the quiet places / $c Brian Thomas Isaac. 264 1 $a [Victoria, BC] : $b Brindle & Glass, an imprint of TouchWood Editions, $c [2021] 300 $a 277 pages : $b map ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch the sunset and listening to the wind in the grass. The boys learn from Ray's funny and dark stories. But when tragedy strikes, Eddie returns home grief-stricken, confused, and lonely. Eddie's life is governed by the decisions of the adults around him. Grace is determined to have him learn the ways of the white world by sending him to school in the small community of Falkland. On Eddie's first day of school, as he crosses the reserve boundary at the Salmon River bridge, he leaves behind his world. Grace challenges the Indian Agent and writes futile letters to Ottawa to protest the sparse resources in their community. His father returns to the family after years away only to bring chaos and instability. Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house. Only in his grandmother's company does he find solace and true companionship. In his teens, Eddie's future seems more secure--he finds a job, and his long-time crush on his white neighbour Eva is finally reciprocated. But every time things look up, circumstances beyond his control crash down around him. The cumulative effects of guilt, grief, and despair threaten everything Eddie has ever known or loved. All the Quiet Places is the story of what can happen when every adult in a person's life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded, unsentimental witness provided by Eddie."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 650 0 $a Okanagan Indians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Day laborers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Off-reservation boarding schools $z Canada $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Imperialism $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Okanagan Valley (B.C. : Region) $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Bildungsromans. 655 0 $a Domestic fiction. 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fnhl. 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 3 952 $l YUPD232 $d 20230201025750.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220802011253.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220712010337.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0081E9CE01A811EDB8EAEDD844ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search