This week Bill tells us about a COVID campfire chat with Waub Rice leading to his novel release this week.
Beyond the heat, light and a cooking source, campfires provide entertainment - stories, songs, and community. There are also mindful effects, the origin of comfort and resolve.
Campfire reflections Also, at the fire pit that day was Stephen Scharper, professor and director of the Trinity Sustainability Initiative, Department of Anthropology, School of the Environment, University of Toronto. The new novel is set about a dozen years later, in a new community founded by Evan Whitesky and the other surviving community members, who left their community at the end of the first novel. Their Anishinaabe cultural practices have grown stronger, but survival is becoming a challenge, as food sources disappear. Evan and his teenage daughter Nangohns join a scouting party and set out in search of their ancestral roots.
Waub does not purposely educate the reader about his indigenous values and culture. “I will leave that to the teachers. It comes about somewhere between being purposeful, and naturally informative, it just emerges.”At night the flames of fire create reflective silhouettes of one’s face and what’s within. Waub’s was intense enough as he was about to write a novel, he had much on his mind.
Evan had not planned to stop anywhere else here; anything useful had been picked clean long ago. The crunch of gravel below the soles of his boots evoked a haunted memory of the place as he led them eastward, past the familiar sites—the baseball field and jumping rocks on the shore of the big lake. The grey gravel infield of the ball diamond had become green with weeds, and the outfield grass was as high as the chain-link fencing that enclosed the play area. The wooden bleachers were long gone.
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