The Inner Green : Exploring Home in the Columbia Mountains
This powerfully felt and deeply thoughtful book is full of stories, adventure and observations about the Columbia Mountains of British Columbia. K.Linda Kivi and Eileen Delehanty Pearkes have explored their connections to place and captured the essence of the ecosystems of the Interior Temperate Rainforest. The Inner Green is the kind of book I have been searching for - it is destined to become a classic of its kind.
Luanne Armstrong, writer and author of The Bone House
This delightful book is about personal discovery and reverence for the Columbia Mountain region. If you want to explore one of the loveliest places on Earth, while gaining insights into its special beauty, its ecology and the people who inhabit it, this is a book you should read.
Joan Snyder PhD, Wildlife Biologist
K.Linda Kivi is a naturalist and the author of three books, including If Home is a Place. She is a 15 year resident of the Columbia Mountains and lives on a land co-op in the Kootenay River valley.
Eileen Delehanty Pearkes has been exploring the Columbia Mountains for over a decade. She is the author of The Geography of Memory and lives in Nelson with her husband and two sons.
Cover Art by Carol Wallace
$23- CDN/ $20- US/ $40 CDN for Hand bound cloth edition
ISBN 0-9685302-2-2
MAA PRESS
If Home is a Place
If Home is a Place explores the passionate and complex relationships between mothers and daughters, and brings to light women's experience of war. This powerful story delves into the refugee experience and the meaning of home, revealing how emigration can form the psyche of a people for generations.
Dispossessed of their native Estonian home during World War II, Maria and her daughters, Sofi and Helgi, struggle to survive in war-torn Europe. In Canada, fifty years late, home is still not a given. We watch as Esther, the grown daughter of Sofi, slowly unravels the legacy of exile and discovers the place within herself that is home.
What the reviewers say about If Home if a Place:
"This heartfelt first novel traces one family's experience as World War II refugees from Estonia who ultimately settle in Canada... The historical sections, told by the three elder women, are wonderfully vivid, giving a fine impression of wartime hardships and uncertainties, and of the heroism of daily life."
Women in Libraries
Home means something very distinct and important to Esther's grandmother, mother and aunt whose struggles to survive... are richly evoked in intense, well chosen and detailed scenes. Kivi embraces and develops the traditional novel form to fit the pieces into a cohesive whole. The result is convincing and compelling fiction."
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"Kivi's writing makes her characters and their emotions real. Altogether, this is a very satisfying book."
Canadian Book Review Annual
K.Linda Kivi is the author of numerous books, articles and stories. She makes her home in the mountainous territory of the Sinixt First Nation in British Columbia, Canada. Raised in Toronto's Estonian refugee community, Estonian is her first language. She continues to write, to garden and to learn about her adopted land.
To order If Home is a Place, please contact K.Linda Kivi at maapress@netidea.com or write 1-4925 Marello Rd. Nelson, BC, V1L 6X4.
Canadian Women Making Music (1992) is an exploration of Canadian women composers and musicians from a historical perspective. The book also includes photographs and a series of in-depth interviews with contemporary musicians from across Canada including Alanis Obomsawin, Salome Bey, Katari Taiko, Pamela Morgan, Ann Southam and Rita MacNeil. This book is a must read for aspiring musicians and people interested in filling out herstory. Canadian Women Making Music can be ordered from bookstores, from the publisher, Green Dragon Press, 2267 Lake Shore Blvd. W. Toronto, Ontario, M8V 5X2 or from the author, K.Linda Kivi. ISBN 0-9691955-8-3.
The Drum (1997-2003) was an environmentally-minded "zine" (a small, political magazine) of which K.Linda Kivi has published 27 issues. The Drum follows the story of logging in the BC wilderness and the vast reasons behind the destructive practices of corporations. Readers are encouraged to write in about their own life experiences on nature, consumerism and other subjects.