Half-Light
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Half-Light

Westbound on a Hot Planet

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Half-Light

Westbound on a Hot Planet

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About This Book

Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to "go west, " Amy Kaler offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, middle age, and climate catastrophe. She explores "ruins" of the human history of the North American settler west—faded hamlets, bunkers, fields of cars, bends in the river—that serve as emblems of hope, generational commitment abandoned by contemporary heirs, faith, hubris, even carelessness. These stops are intertwined with reflections on aging, temporality, and change, making the book feel like a deeply satisfying road trip with a thoughtful friend. Moving from meditative to ardent to sobering in compelling and measured ways, Half-Light shimmers with urgency and suggestion.

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Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781772127607
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. Central Alberta, Somewhere Near Rumsey
  8. Westbound
  9. Retlaw
  10. On Fire for the Rest of My Life
  11. Rossdale Flats and the Bomb Shelter
  12. The West and Its Ruins
  13. Swan Hills
  14. Westbound All Along
  15. Campus Saint-Jean
  16. The End of the World and the Ends of the Earth
  17. Dalum
  18. Orphans
  19. St. Paul
  20. My Seventies
  21. Strathcona Science Park
  22. The Years Before Me, the Years Behind
  23. Newbrook
  24. Ancestors and Descendants
  25. Wostok and Spaca Moskalyk
  26. Home for the Time Being
  27. Packingtown
  28. The Most Important Things Have Already Happened
  29. Holy Transfiguration
  30. Standing Pose
  31. Rowley
  32. “Your Cell Will Teach You”
  33. Newcastle Mine
  34. Time Management
  35. Abbotsford
  36. Keeping Time
  37. Rochfort Bridge
  38. Pigeons
  39. Palliser Triangle
  40. Who Is That?
  41. Bunchberry Meadows
  42. Top Ten Crises
  43. Beaverhill Lake
  44. Epilogue: Eastbound
  45. Acknowledgements
  46. References
  47. About the Author