Fifteen Thousand Pieces
Fifteen Thousand Pieces
Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Jude Castillo
, Sandra Furlotte
, Sarah Schwartz
, Patricia Johnson
, Linda Leitch
, Marilyn Stanley
, Chris Carvalho
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Deana Bueley
, Deb Philippon
, Barry Kazimer
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Mary Therrien
, Agnes Marshall
, Melissa Poremba
, Vanessa Seto
, Natasa Ilic
, Andrea Gillespie
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Chantal Comeau
, Alliah Belza
, Joshua Lewis
, Noelle Walsh
, Lucian Childs
, Elaine Baptie
, Haley Spencer
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Andrea Pole
, Tyra Antle
, Meaghan Krygier
, Christy Verveer
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Catherine Westerberg
, Shawna Moodie
, Paula Adam
, Sandra Perry
, Andrew Taylor
, Kirsten Lyon
, Rose Ghaedi
, Trish Bowering
, Jennifer Beyak
, Anne Range
, Chris Masterman
, Diana Richardson
, Kim Cappellina
, Melinda Poth
, Deanna Carney
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Heather Belliveau
, Marla Schecter Howard
, M M English
, Nancy Reid
, diana kirkwood
, Jay Rawding
, Karen Nordrum
, Patricia McKeown
, Debbie Youngman
, Randi Ann Doll
, Karen Kendrick
, Maureen Brownlee
, Rhona Brinkman
, Lisa Mallia
, Thelma Ball
, MCINNIS Stephanie
, Mary Danieli
, Mary Lester
, Christine Lion
, Laura Peters
, Janice Cournoyer
, Mary Ellen Havlik
, Rachel Edmonds
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Carl Scott
, Amanda Schempp
, Benita Hartwell
, Claudie Léveillé
, Rita O'Sullivan
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Claire Gear
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Alice Meems
, CAROLINA FAMILIA
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Hoda Montazeri
, Janet Miller
, Wayne Ng
, Leila Grobel
, Hannah Main
, Tanya Korigan
, Amie Gaudet
, Shannon Leclerc
, Marin Beck
, Rachael Preston
, Karen Charleson
, Jesse Kancir
, Lynn Andrews
, Christina Frantz
, BJ Underwood
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Katherine Krige
, Donald Forsythe
, Karen Reid
, Rachel Lutz
, Ken Gilmour
, Sara Conway
, Debra Fisher
, Beth Dekoker
, Catherine Young
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Catherine Desaulniers
editor@49thShelf.com
On Wednesday, September 2nd, 1998, an international flight carrying 229 souls crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia. There were no survivors. By Friday, Sept 4th, thousands of dismembered body parts had come through Dr. John Butt's makeshift morgue in Hangar B at the Shearwater military base. The Chief Medical Examiner faced the most challenging and grisly task of his career. Five years prior to the plane crash, John had lost his prestigious job as Alberta’s Chief Medical Examiner. After 14 years of marriage, John began to think of himself as gay, but remained closeted professionally. Then, after serving a handful of years as Nova Scotia's Chief Medical Examiner, the devastating crash in Nova Scotia cracked his carefully constructed façade. Fifteen Thousand Pieces explores one man's journey to accept his true nature and find his place in the world. Chapters alternate between the fast-paced story of the crash, and the history of the man in the making. It is both fast-paced and introspective; gruesome and touching. Ultimately, it is the story of how death teaches us to live.
