Sisters of the Spruce
Sisters of the Spruce
Ryan Woods
, Tanya Blake
, Benita Hartwell
, Brad MULLER
, Jude Castillo
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Janet Miller
, Marilyn Stanley
, Rodney Cross
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Beth Dekoker
, Dot Mann
, Martine Fabris
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Sharon Forzley
, Bronya Mazereeuw
, Chris Carvalho
, Rosa Cross
, Brittney Warren
, toni velthuis
, Joshua Lewis
, Elle Kishia
, Sarah Schwartz
, Alanna Virtue
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Noelle Walsh
, Natasha Andres
, Laura Patterson
, Kevin Smith
, Rose Hately
, Isisus Western
, Agnes Marshall
, Marjorie Roy
, Danielle Kat
, Carol Brown
, Andrea Pole
, Deana Bueley
, Barry Kazimer
, Louise Walsh
, Cherryl Koylass
, Julie Kaniak
, Sandra Lackie
, Maureen Brownlee
, Presley Robertson
, Ashley Duke
, Lynn Andrews
, enid wray
, Mike Broderick
, Dorothy Wong
, Debra Fisher
, Jessica Casas
, Joseph Chirayil
, Dian Anderson
, Jane Graham
, Sara Conway
, Lisa Reynolds
, Kendra Martin
, Jennifer Beyak
, Liz Moreau
, M M English
, Dru Edmiston
, Roland Schigas
, Julie M.
, Wendy Houlden
, Susi Lovell
, Margaret McKay
, BJ Underwood
, Lesley Sturge
, Pat Johnston
, Robert Hykawy
, Janice Cournoyer
, Emily Johansen
, diana kirkwood
, Alex Henderson
, Patricia Johnson
, Kim Fenton
, Lynn Bechtel
, Chris Lantz
, Penelope Penner
, Karyn Newton
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kim Cappellina
, Lisa Mallia
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Tanis Anne
, Huguette Settle
, Lindsey Andronak
, Mary Lester
, Tami Osato
, Jen Bailey
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Alice Meems
, Anna Krentz
, Val Ross
, Ellen Clarke
, Ken Gilmour
, Randi Ann Doll
, Stef Novakowski
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Robert Ratelle
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Katie Kah
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Meghan Barton
, Andre Labonte
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Judith Pearson
, Hoda Montazeri
, Jordy Major
, Thelma Ball
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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?
Drawing on inspiration from her ancestors’ stories and experiences, Shimotakahara weaves an entrancing tale of female adventure, friendship, and survival.
