{"product_id":"our-sands","title":"Our Sands","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSeventeen year-old Ocean Janak has grown up the privileged daughter of Blake, a geologist turned Calgary oil sands executive. When she falls for Rory McAllister, a Calgary bike courier who secretly scans many of the oil contracts he’s paid to deliver, she finds a lover and a comrade-in-green-arms. Alarmed by the historical Project Cauldron—the private (and patented!) American proposal to liquify the oil in Alberta’s tar sands with nuclear bombs—the increasingly militant green lovers go north to Fort McMurray with the plan of exploding the containment wall of an oilsands tailings pond dam to flood the entire region in toxins and bring the industry to a halt. The environmental racism that finds northern Canadian First Nations poisoned is also resented by Luke Simon, a Cree sniper whose bile-duct cancer brought him home prematurely from the war in Afghanistan. He, too, has a plan to stop the sands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDarryl Whetter\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, editor and the inaugural director of the first taught \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecreative writing MA in Singapore and Southeast Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2003, his first book of fiction was named to The Globe and Mail‘s Top 100 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBooks of 2003. That book, the story collection \u003cem\u003eA Sharp Tooth in the Fur\u003c\/em\u003e, received \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erave reviews from coast to coast. His debut novel, A\u003cem\u003e Bicycle Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, rolled out in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2008. Look for \u003cem\u003eThe Push \u0026amp; the Pull\u003c\/em\u003e wherever fine books are sold. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Earth Day \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2012, he released \u003cem\u003eOrigins\u003c\/em\u003e, a book of poems devoted to evolution, energy and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eextinction as they have been, can be and\/or should be viewed at Joggins, Nova \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScotia. His latest novel, \u003cem\u003eKeeping Things Whole\u003c\/em\u003e, is a multi-generational smuggling \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eepic of love and death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe has published nearly 100 book reviews for papers such as The Toronto Star, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe National Post, The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand Detroit’s Metro Times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe has appeared at writing festivals and\/or universities in Bali, Malaysia, Iceland, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAustralia, Sweden, Wales, Canada, Singapore and the US.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe wrote the books column for THIS Magazine and was Reviews Editor for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003euber-cool Numéro Cinq.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Times Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39251122225265,"sku":"9789814882187","price":25.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/Our-sands.jpg?v=1614568971","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/our-sands","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}