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OverviewBraiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to “go west,” Amy Kaler’s Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, middle age, and climate catastrophe. Her memoir weaves together three strands: living with the knowledge of one’s own aging and mortality; the slow-moving catastrophes of climate change; and the human history of the North American settler west, especially locations that hold traces of vanished pasts. Many of the “ruins” Kaler explores—faded hamlets, bunkers, fields of cars, bends in the river—are interesting in themselves, and some serve as emblems of hope, generational commitment abandoned by contemporary heirs, faith, hubris, even carelessness. These stops are intertwined with reflections on aging, temporality, and change, making the book feel like a deeply satisfying road trip with a thoughtful friend. Moving from meditative to sobering in compelling and measured ways, Half-Light shimmers with urgency and suggestion. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy Kaler (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta)Publisher: University of Alberta Press Imprint: University of Alberta Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.280kg ISBN: 9781772127409ISBN 10: 177212740 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 23 May 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPrologue Central Alberta, Somewhere Near Rumsey Westbound Retlaw On Fire for the Rest of My Life Rossdale Flats and the Bomb Shelter The West and Its Ruins Swan Hills Campus Saint-Jean The End of the World and the Ends of the Earth Dalum Orphans St. Paul My Seventies Strathcona Science Park The Years Before Me, the Years Behind Newbrook Ancestors and Descendants Wostok and Spaca Moskalyk Home for the Time Being Packingtown The Most Important Things Have Already Happened Holy Transfiguration Standing Pose Rowley “Your Cell Will Teach You” Newcastle Mine Time Management Abbotsford Keeping Time Rochfort Bridge Pigeons Palliser Triangle Who Is That? Bunchberry Meadows Top Ten Crises Beaverhill Lake Epilogue: Eastbound ReferencesReviews"Listed in ""Most Anticipated: Our 2024 Nonfiction Spring Preview"" by 49th Shelf, February 7, 2024" Author InformationAmy Kaler is an Edmonton-based writer and Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. She has lived in Edmonton, Treaty 6 territory since 2000. She is the author of Until Further Notice: A Year in Pandemic Time, a collection of essays published in 2022. She is also the author of three previous books. Kaler won the Cecile E. Mactaggart Travel Prize for Narrative Writing in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award for Personal Essays in 2021 and longlisted in 2022. Her nonacademic work appears in The New Quarterly, Queens Quarterly, and Spadina Literary Review. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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