Grace River

By: Rebecca Hendry

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Paperback | 15 April 2009

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224 Pages

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Grace River is a smelter town in the interior of B.C. where most people who live there are born and bred, and everyone is either employed by AXIS or knows someone who is. Not much ever changes in Grace River. The days begin at Nick's Diner and end at the Steelworkers bar. When a young environmentalist arrives in town to investigate toxin levels in the river, the locals are forced to start looking honestly at their lives, their pasts and their uncertain futures.

A powerful and courageous story told from the perspective of four friends,Grace River explores the reasons why people continue to stay in harmful situations and asks us to think about the damage we all do, not only to the environment, but also to the ones we love the most.

Industry Reviews

Hendry is a skillful writer; the voices are subtly different from each other, serving to keep the narrative interesting and lively. --Harbour Spiel-- (05/01/2009)
Grace River is a company-town drama that will resonate all over the world. --Vancouver Sun-- (05/01/2009)
A powerful and courageous debut novel and four friends who are forced to start looking honestly at their lives, their pasts and their uncertain futures.-- (05/01/2009)
Hendry paints a vivid portrait of resentment and functional dysfuntion. --Vancouver Sun-- (05/01/2009)
Rebecca has a gift for dead-on portraits, for apt conveyances in prose of the small-town feeling. --Sunstream-- (05/01/2009)
[This] will be the hot new book in B.C. this year. --Coast Reporter-- (05/01/2009)

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