A very special book is warming British Columbia hearts this summer. Twenty-four B.C. writers talk of their love of the season of love, beaches, and in my case grasslands, peregrine falcons, meadowlarks and the stars spinning overhead in a great wheel.

Come out and share your stories with us. We’ll open the conversation by reading from this gorgeous book. My piece is called “The Neon Bees of the Sun.” It’s the first public presentation of a five-year-long series of travels I have made to write a new history of the Okanagan. Here’s preview:

Come and here her tale! July 13, 2017, 7 pm., Vernon Public Library, 30th Ave, Downtown.