Juiceboxers

Juiceboxers

3

Presley Robertson
, Emily Johansen
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Joseph Chirayil
, Paula Adam
, Jude Castillo
, Brad MULLER
, Marilyn Stanley
, Katie Kah
, Pamela Bruce
, Ryan Woods
, Joe Mitchell
, Agnes Marshall
, Sandra Furlotte
, Natasha Andres
, Dot Mann
, cassandra schiemann
, Anita Jones
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Louise Walsh
, Tami Osato
, toni velthuis
, Deana Bueley
, Sharon Forzley
, Dorothy Wong
, Sandra Lackie
, Cheryl Johnson
, Patricia Johnson
, Mary Therrien
, Noelle Walsh
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Julie Farmer
, Barry Kazimer
, Gloria Wilson
, Wayne Harrigan
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joshua Lewis
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Emily Steiner
, Holly Elisabeth
, Lesley Sturge
, Brittney Warren
, Laurie Burns
, Andrea Pole
, Rita Osullivan
, Joe Titone
, Megan Bishop
, Margaret McKay
, Robert Hykawy
, Sara Conway
, Keltey Buchko
, Alanna Virtue
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Cindy Bodini
, Penny Connolly
, Kathryn Galan
, Richard Scarsbrook
, Lynn Bechtel
, Christine Lion
, Edward Dalton
, Lindsey Andronak
, Karen LeBlanc
, Olivia Pellegrino
, Sandra Storey
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Benita Hartwell
, Amanda Olmstead
, Paula Ritchie
, Morgan Jefferies
, Huguette Lemieux
, Jeff Gotell
, Tema Frank
, Rachel Edmonds
, Heather S
, Barbara Leckie
, Ken Gilmour
, Rodney Cross
, Janice Cournoyer
, Kym Marsh
, Michael Edwards
, GLORIA KONELSKY
, Jayne Shewman
, Jane McRobb
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Chris Lantz
, Michelle Arsenault
, Roland Schigas
, Michelle Canfield
, Remi Gunn
, Rosa Cross
, Kim Carswell
, Melissa Poremba
, Itraa Gold
, Christopher Evans
, Alice Meems
, Cherryl Koylass
, Kim Silva
, kristine hibbs
, Shelley Butcher
, Pam Keetch
, Kevin Smith
, Janet Hosokawa
, Stephanie Trotter
, Megan Low
, Leila Grobel
, David Janik Jones
, Janet Miller
, Melissa Dingwall
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Audrionna Oliver
, Sarah Dalton
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Tanis Anne
, Sahar Sa
, Sue Zahorak
, Eva Esmann
, Mary Campbell
, Diane McPherson
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Huguette Settle
, Crystal Inwood
, Kim Cappellina
, P. Thompson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Lynn Andrews
, Nancy Reid
, Allison Dube
, Melissa Kohlman
, Dana Derks
, Dian Anderson
, Christine Labelle
, Beth Dekoker
, Amanda Schempp

133

editor@49thShelf.com

01/01/2025

03/02/2025

Yes

Rita Osullivan
, Jude Castillo
, Olivia Pellegrino

Sixteen-year-old Plinko is attending basic training before high school starts up again in the fall. Feeling adrift from his own family, he moves in with an older soldier, where he forges an unlikely group of friends in the military: the very tall Walsh, who moves in shortly after Plinko does; Abdi, whose Somali immigrant parents often welcome the group of young men over for dinner; and the unpredictable and gun-loving Krug, who is brash and exasperating yet magnetic.

After 9/11, the military prepares to move into Afghanistan — to go to war. Plinko and his friends have no idea that the trajectory of their lives is about to be irrevocably altered.

Drawn from the author's experiences as a soldier in Afghanistan, Juiceboxers tenderly traces the story of a young man's journey from basic training, to the battlefields of Kandahar, to the inner city of Edmonton, braiding together questions of masculinity and militarism, friendship and white supremacy, loss and trauma and hard-won recovery.