Thousands of newcomers are pouring into Alberta from around the globe, bringing unexpected gifts. Many are writers and storytellers.
What pulls them to Canada? What happens to them on the journey? What experiences have they deliberately left behind? What treasures do they bring? How do they describe their emerging sense of place and their creative aspirations in a new home?
In this moving collection of stories and poems, writers from around the world share their thoughts on creating a life in Alberta. Expressed with beauty and clarity, and sometimes translated from the writer's native tongue, these very personal accounts of joy and sadness, regret and humour, homesickness and exuberance, describe the defining moments of a departure and an arrival.
Contributors to The Story That Brought Me Here include Jalal Barzanji, Edmonton's first Writers in Exile; Rita Espeschit, Thuc Cong, Mohammed Al-Nassar, Monika Igali, Sabah Tahir, Therezinha Franca Kennedy, Sangmok Lee, Sudhir Jain, Yi Li, Athiann Makuach Garang, Marsh Hoke, Tortor Maruku, Reinekke Lengelle, Brian Brennan, A.K. Rashid, June Smith-Jeffries, Magdalena Witkowsky, Anna Mioduchowska, Ikponwosa I.K. Ero and Comfort Adesuwa Ero, Wilma Rubens, Patricia Lopez de Vloothduis, Neung-jae Park Mary Cavill, Mansoor Ladha, Chantal Hitayezu and many others. With photographs by Shabnam Sukhdev.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C810.8/0327123
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-ab
- ISBN
- 9781897142349 9781926972800
- LCCN
- PR9198.2.A42
- LCCN Item number
- S867 2008eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (213 pages)
- Published in
- Victoria, British Columbia
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00238933 (OCoLC)798846279 (CaOOCEL)430968
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- The Story That Brought Me Here 12
- Writers Are Stronger Than Armies 20
- Kaleidoscope 26
- Waiting 31
- Revolving Doors 36
- War Tore Us Apart 44
- Call Me Taco, Taco John 50
- The Searcher 60
- Whatever You Do, Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From 65
- Two Poems 74
- Second Landing 79
- Goodnight, America 88
- Rio/Edmonton Non-Stop 93
- Three Poems 100
- The Unanswered Question 104
- Section Fifteen 108
- Pieces of a Journey: An E-mail Memoir 114
- Ishaa & Me 123
- Four Poems 128
- Golden Birds and a Chess Set 135
- Harmony 139
- Grafted Apple Trees 142
- Leaving Dublin 146
- Atlantic Crossing 155
- Swimming Home 159
- Political Amputee 167
- My Grandfather’s Poem, My Grandmother’s Dance 171
- Missing England 178
- Hope for Africa 186
- Two Poems 190
- The Economics of Home 193
- Then and Now 198
- Canadian Experience 200
- Adventure Assured 207
- Escaping the Cage 214
- From Sahara Desert to Alberta Prairie in Four Interviews 218
- About the Editor 225
