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Good Enough from Here

by Glenn Carley
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781772441901
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Rock's Mills Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Rock's Mills Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 142
  • Original Price: USD 18.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 186 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Polar Regions

Good Enough from Here is a compelling work of creative nonfiction, an artifact of Canadiana, set in the real-life geographical and historical context of Canadian Forces Station (CFS) ALERT on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island in the late 1970s. Considered at the time Canada's most northerly permanently inhabited location, the small, orange civilization within the base perimeter serves as a stage for the interplay of relationships among companions, father figures, military culture--perhaps a micro-prophecy of the country and its future within the Inuit animism of the landscape itself.

The tale traces the unlikely journey of a band of young men from a small southern Ontario town to the expanse of Canada's High Arctic. Part of an environmental clean-up crew, they confront the technological spoor and detritus accumulated since the station's founding in 1950. The Midnight Sun, the sheer isolation, even the magical realism of certain rooms in certain buildings call out to each of them.

Good Enough from Here is, in the author's words, "a quirky environmental tale of the transformation of an irreverent society of youthful 'Frozen Chosen' into a primitive state of young manhood"--a coming-of-age story taking a bird's-eye view of military culture from a civilian's perspective. But finally it is what is known as Inuit Nunangata Ungata, the land beyond the land of the people, that takes centre stage, then as now tolerating the world's geopolitical, ecological and sovereign attention.

Carley, Glenn: - Glenn Carley was born in Trenton, Ontario. He is the author of Polenta at Midnight: Tales of Gusto and Enchantment in North York (Vehicule Press, 2007), and his book Il Vagabondo: An Urban Opera will be published by Guernica Editions in 2021. His stories have appeared in Italian Canadians at Table: A Narrative Feast in Five Courses (Guernica Editions, 2013) and in Accenti Magazine. Good Enough from Here is his second book. A retired chief social worker, Glenn lives in Bolton, Ontario with his wife Mary. Their family is blessed with a daughter, son and daughter-in-law.

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