What if your country is involved in an unjust war, and you’ve
lost trust in your own government? It's 1968, and the Vietnam War
has brought new urgency to the life of Billie Taylor, a
seventeen-year-old aspiring photojournalist. Billie is no stranger
to risky situations, but when she attends a student protest at
Columbia University with her college boyfriend, and the US is
caught up in violent political upheaval, her mother decides to move
the two of them to Canada. Furious at being dragged away from her
beloved New York City to live in a backwater called Toronto, Billie
doesn’t take her exile lightly. As her mother opens their home to
draft evaders and deserters, Billie’s activism grows in new ways.
She discovers an underground network of political protesters and
like minds in a radical group based in Rochdale College, the
world’s first “free” university. And the stakes rise when she
is exposed to horrific images from Vietnam of the victims of Agent
Orange – a chemical being secretly manufactured in a small town
just north of Toronto. Suddenly she has to ask herself some hard
questions. How far will she go to be part of a revolution? Is
violence ever justified? Or does standing back just make you part
of the problem? Key Text Features author’s note chapters
dialogue epigraph facts historical context literary references song
lyrics
General
Imprint: |
Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
|
Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Amanda West Lewis
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Dimensions: |
215 x 139mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
|
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-77306-899-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-77306-899-7 |
Barcode: |
9781773068992 |
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