Astra

Red Fern Book Review by Amy Tyler

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Author Cedar Bowers joins the podcast to discuss her 2021 debut novel Astra. The book follows the life of a young woman who is born on a B.C. commune from the perspective of 10 different people. Cedar discusses life growing up in a remote community, the failed promise of the back-to-the land movement and if we can ever really know somebody.
Books and Resources discussed:
Astra by Cedar Bowers
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Island of Forgetting by Jasmine Sealy
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

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