Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Juliet, Saskatchewan may be fictional yet a character study of the people and the setting of a small prairie town in Western Canada.
Cool Water
What you need to know before your trail
Juliet, Saskatchewan – Blink and you’ll miss it as the welcome sign announces a population of 1,011 people. Situated on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills, Juliet and its inhabitants are caught in limbo between a century — old promise of prosperity and whatever lies ahead.
But the heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people
Travel Guide
Set amongst the sand hills in Saskatchewan yes that’s right -there is like a mini desert right in the middle of what assume to be a cold country. There’s also a town called Medicine Hat. (Does JK Rowling know about this?
Inspired by the area of the Little Snake sand hills Saskatchewan and possibly even Swift Current, Saskatchewan, it really does seem to paint a broad picture of prairie life and the weird and wonderful facets of human nature. How does nature and environment affect the people who live in a chosen spot?
This book is a look at the people who live in the small and fictional town of Juliet. Apt that the town has a human name for it’s almost a character in itself. The story flows from one character to the next, the stories blending into each other – much like the sand on the sand hills themselves. Yet each small grain is important and together forms an interesting, larger picture.
The sand hills are made up of many different types of grains – some are sad such as the middle aged couple or the wife of the bank manager who realises after his death just what she has lost.
Other stories are light heartened and humorous but still retain the sense of poignancy that runs through the book. Every character is complex but as the book cover a little over 24 hours then the focus on them is tight and like a spotlight bringing every little detail into focus.
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Today is Canada Day – the national day of Canada – my adoptive land. It’s a country I feel a real affinity to and always celebrate the day – usually by making some home made poutine (chips and gravy with cheese curds) but it’s never the same.
And I’ve been back to Canada so many times I’ve lost count Well a ticket there only costs the price of a book or the use of a library ticket if you travel via fiction!
So for this Independent Book Week, I thought it was apt to buy a book set in Canada. Well, that was the intention. I ended up buying a few… and even went to places I hadn’t been before. This is the one I wanted to read first, and so this is my IBW2014 choice for Canada Day, eh!
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