Junie

Junie

3

Marilyn Stanley
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Barry Kazimer
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, LJ Law
, Paula Adam
, Sarah Schwartz
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Noelle Walsh
, Sandra Furlotte
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Jude Castillo
, P. Thompson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Deana Bueley
, Leslie Vermeer
, Joshua Lewis
, Shayla Bradley
, Melissa Kohlman
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Linda Leitch
, Andrea Gillespie
, Debra Fisher
, Patricia Johnson
, finn mulryan
, Sarah Van Dyk
, Laurie Burns
, Clare Lui
, C. Ray
, Heather Belliveau
, joy mills
, Karen Kendrick
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Prabh Toor
, Lynn Hallson
, Dora Dueck
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Patricia McKeown
, Christopher Evans
, Margaret McKay
, Ellen Clarke
, Paula Ritchie
, Carl Scott
, Adele gallogly
, Mary Lester
, catherine dorton
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Christine Lion
, Nancy Daoust
, Vicki Bedford
, Hope Brooke
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Charles Leblanc
, sarah campbell
, Margaret Jones
, Susan Terendy
, Chloe Moore
, Susan Jang
, jane luce
, Benita Hartwell
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Denise Duvall
, Robert Hykawy
, Dawn Clayden
, Deb Philippon
, Sonia Adams
, Catherine Young
, Maria Mclean
, Lindsay Hobbs
, Kate Rutter
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Karen Nordrum
, Susi Lovell
, Ken Gilmour
, Janice Cournoyer
, Joan Clare
, Sharon Bird
, Christa Seeley
, Kathryn Galan
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Teree Hokanson
, Hoda Montazeri
, Yolande Thivierge
, Jessica Gilbert
, Chris Carvalho
, Melissa Poremba
, Kelsey Attard
, Laura Peters
, Jessica Trento
, Randi Ann Doll
, Kim Cappellina
, Jennifer Beyak

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04/09/2022

17/09/2022

Yes

Susan Jang
, Susan Terendy
, Sandra Furlotte

1930s, Hogan's Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with two mentors and a girl her own age, Estelle, whose resilient and entrepreneurial mother is grappling with white scrutiny and the fact that she never really wanted a child.

As Junie finds adulthood, exploring her artistic talents and burgeoning sexuality, her mother sinks further into the bottle while the thriving neighbourhood—once gushing with potential—begins to change. As her world opens, Junie intuits the opposite for the community she loves.

Told through the fascinating lens of a bright woman in an oft-disquieting world, this book is intimate and urgent—not just an unflinching look at the destruction of a vibrant community, but a celebration of the Black lives within.