- Curriculum Connections
- Alberta History
- English Language Arts
- Environmental and Outdoor Education
- Social Studies
- Description
Half-Light is a contemplative travel memoir that moves through the faded towns, industrial ruins, river bends, and abandoned homesteads of the North American settler west while reflecting on aging, memory, and ecological crisis. The book stitches together episodic essays with family history and archival fragments to examine what “going west” meant historically compared to now. Given the shorter length of most of the chapters, earlier readers may be able to connect to the themes of community, place, and history. With the focus on place, learners could research a local site and connect it to broader themes and feelings to develop their own writing and research skills.
- Additional Information
Awards:
– Shortlisted, Regional Book of the Year, Alberta Book Publishing Awards
- ISBN
- 9781772127409
- List Price
- $26.99
- ISBN
- 9781772127607
- List Price
- $26.99
Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet
By Amy Kaler (Author)
