A Room in the Forest
A Room in the Forest
Marilyn Stanley
, Lynn Mullen
, Alanna Virtue
, Amanda Schempp
, Dot Mann
, Sindi Nika
, Alice Meems
, toni velthuis
, Taya Young
, Melissa Kohlman
, Natasha Andres
, Jude Castillo
, Presley Robertson
, Barbara Leckie
, Sandra Furlotte
, Arvia Chen
, Deana Bueley
, Brad MULLER
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Shelley Butcher
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Christine Labelle
, Jane Graham
, Charly Wreggitt
, Laura Lalonde
, Agnes Marshall
, Sailaxmi Sahoo
, Sharon Forzley
, Sara Mody
, Andrea Gillespie
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Sarah Dalton
, cassandra schiemann
, Darryl Taylor
, Marc-André Taillefer
, Sarah Schwartz
, Catherine Booker
, Darlene Foster
, Noelle Walsh
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Wendi Waage
, Andrea Pole
, Susan Toy
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Tami Osato
, Holly Elisabeth
, Mary Therrien
, Jacquie Clancy
, Emily Steiner
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Brittney Warren
, Allison Dube
, Katie Macalister
, Claire Gear
, Louise Walsh
, Itraa Gold
, Patricia Johnson
, katie locke
, Kim Cappellina
, kristine hibbs
, Barry Kazimer
, Mae Whyte
, Anita Jones
, David Janik Jones
, Spencer Reitenbach
, Melissa Rivosecchi
, Desmond Tsang
, Joshua Lewis
, Sandra Lackie
, Danielle MacKinlay
, Jessica Harrison
, Ashley Barber
, Marnie Young
, Ashley Pocrnich
, Virginia Reddin
, Carol Brown
, Kim Carswell
, Laurie Burns
, Joe Titone
, Laura Freeman
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Jennifer Morse
, Devon Millard
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Connie Braun
, Macy McCubbing
, Vicki Bedford
, Sara Conway
, Liz Carlin
, Faye Lilley
, jane luce
, Rosa Cross
, Candace Fertile
, Taylor MaGee
, Rodney Cross
, Marin Beck
, Donna Gamache
, Hilary Squires
, joy mills
, Shane Lange
, Maria Mclean
, Shawna Moodie
, Lara Maynard
, Patricia Scott
, Fred Wong
, Roland Schigas
, Tanis Anne
, Jennifer Beyak
, Debbie Rodgers
, Han Monarch
, Michelle Arsenault
, S. A. M. McCue
, Kate Hudson
, Carol Knibbe
, diana kirkwood
, Benita Hartwell
, Roberta Cox
, Lei Shimbashi
, Ariel Kroon
, Paula Ritchie
, Huguette Lemieux
, Charlotte Gray
, M M English
, Janet Meisner
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Lynn Bechtel
, Julie M.
, GLORIA KONELSKY
, Cherryl Koylass
, Emily Johansen
, Robert Hykawy
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Georgia Aliphtiras
, Cheryl Johnson
, Chantal Vulker
, Remi Gunn
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Kim Akins
, Cindy Bodini
, C. Ray
, Marjorie Roy
, James Orr
, Catherine Westerberg
, Nancy Reid
, Heather O'Connor
, Ellen Clarke
, Nancy Daoust
, Charles Leblanc
, Judith Pearson
, VJ Hatton
, Ken Gilmour
, Amanda Clarke
, Brenda Vaccarello
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Nineteen-year-old Lily knows she doesn’t belong at a dead-end job in her father’s small-town Alberta furniture store, not when she’s been offered a job in the ancient forests of Haida Gwaii. But her search for a sense of place becomes more complicated when a band of tree planters she meets on the road question her assumptions about whose land she is moving towards. Once at the logging camp, the rugged work and her rough co-workers make her even more uncertain about where she fits in.
While measuring trees, Lily sees a mysterious figure who disappeared into the forest years before. Is he a man or a myth? Everyone has a different opinion. With a logging protest looming, Lily’s coworker and sometimes-friend, Chaz—a young half-Haida man whose white father owns the logging camp—ditches his job thanks to his uncle’s influence. As she meets more locals and learns about the community, Lily discovers surprising secrets about her estranged mother’s time in the area—and that her connection to this place may not be what she thought. Do the rumours Lily keeps hearing about a mysterious hermit have anything to do with her? As more and more questions rise to the surface, Lily plunges deeper into the forest to find out.
Former Haida Gwaii reporter and freelance writer Heather Ramsay makes her fiction debut with a startling coming-of-age novel about challenging old beliefs and finding one’s place in the world.
