Sisters of the Spruce
Sisters of the Spruce
Jude Castillo
, Mary Lester
, Marilyn Stanley
, Deana Bueley
, Sandra Furlotte
, Agnes Marshall
, Margo Beredjiklian
, diana kirkwood
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Sarah Schwartz
, Stephen Pinder
, Anne Baldo
, Deb Philippon
, Claire Gear
, finn mulryan
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Patricia Johnson
, Linda Leitch
, Joshua Lewis
, Noelle Walsh
, Joe Mitchell
, Barry Kazimer
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Tatiana Robinson
, Marjorie Roy
, Catherine Westerberg
, Claudie Léveillé
, zelda dwyer
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, Anna Krentz
, Chris Lantz
, Andrea Gillespie
, Mary Therrien
, Chantal Gingras
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Caleb Nault
, Heather Belliveau
, Laurie Burns
, Tiffany C
, Kathleen Hutchison
, Christine Lion
, Paula Ritchie
, Rosanna Crupi
, Benita Hartwell
, Jennifer Korwin-Kuczynski
, Sonia Adams
, joy mills
, S. A. M. McCue
, Huguette Lemieux
, Kim Fenton
, Darlene Foster
, Margaret McKay
, Deborah Kennedy
, Janice Cournoyer
, Margaret Palmer
, Pat Johnston
, Paula Adam
, Wendy Houlden
, BJ Underwood
, Denise Duvall
, Lynn Andrews
, Patricia McKeown
, Rebecca Dixon
, Randi Ann Doll
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Kim Cappellina
, Sindi Nika
, Lisa Mallia
, Jessica Gilbert
, Leslie Vermeer
, Ken Gilmour
, Kym Marsh
, Karen Nordrum
, Mary Campbell
, Heather Rose
, Melissa Poremba
, Cindy Bodini
, Lynn Bechtel
, Sara Conway
, Shawna Moodie
, Susan Jang
, Barbara Leckie
, Nicole Bawden
, Ellen Clarke
, Chris Carvalho
, jodi guthrie
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Robert Hykawy
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Marissa Yip-Young
, VJ Hatton
, Constance-lee Livingston
, Doris Corcese
, Mary Whitfield
, cassandra schiemann
, Vicki Bedford
, Janet Miller
, Tyra Antle
, Amie Gaudet
, Beth Dekoker
, Rhona Brinkman
, Rachel Edmonds
, Donna Gamache
, Jane Graham
, Sara Erskine
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Prabh Toor
, Judith Pearson
, Katherine Krige
, P. Thompson
, Maureen Brownlee
, Alanna King
, Neha Faisal
, Megan Brodie
, Janet Meisner
, Alissa Bender
, Sharon Bird
, Jennifer Beyak
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World War One is in high gear. Fourteen-year-old Khya Terada moves with her family to a remote, misty inlet on Haida Gwaii, then the Queen Charlotte Islands, in northern British Columbia, known for its Sitka spruces. The Canadian government has passed an act to expedite logging of these majestic trees, desperately needed for the Allies’ aircrafts in Europe. At a camp on the inlet, Khya’s father, Sannosuke—a talented, daring logger with twenty years of experience since immigrating from Japan—assumes a position of leadership among the Japanese and Chinese workers.
But the arrival of a group of white loggers, eager to assert their authority, throws off balance the precarious life that Khya and her family have begun to establish. When a quarrel between Sannosuke and a white man known as “the Captain” escalates, leading to the betrayal of her older sister, Izzy, and humiliation for the family, Khya embarks on a perilous journey with her one friend—a half-Chinese sex worker, on the lam for her own reasons—to track down the man and force him to take responsibility. Yet nothing in the forest is as it appears. Can they save Izzy from ruination and find justice without condemning her to a life of danger, or exposing themselves to the violence of an angry, power-hungry man?
