From Alberta, a young Mennonite girl arrives in BC, a"promised land of fruit and relatives. The fruit, it turns out, needs pickers and relatives want kids to work. Even her imagined fabulous "States" is across a border. Her parents buy a farm on Clearbrook Road and she's in a village where everyone attends church and knows things. Pastures with huge stumps turn into berry patches and farmyards grow chicken barns. There's a Fraser River flood, a death in her school. She makes new friends at the MEI high school. She keeps a five year journal, champions justice and rebels against female/male…mehr
From Alberta, a young Mennonite girl arrives in BC, a"promised land of fruit and relatives. The fruit, it turns out, needs pickers and relatives want kids to work. Even her imagined fabulous "States" is across a border. Her parents buy a farm on Clearbrook Road and she's in a village where everyone attends church and knows things. Pastures with huge stumps turn into berry patches and farmyards grow chicken barns. There's a Fraser River flood, a death in her school. She makes new friends at the MEI high school. She keeps a five year journal, champions justice and rebels against female/male stereotypes. She discovers roller skating, group dating and the secular world. For the Mennonite village it is a time of creeping modernity where kids explore choices and parens are consumed with relief work with post WWII refugees arriving from Europe. Her parents were refugees from Soviet Russia. The many photographs in the book, taken by amateurs with inexpensive cameras (mostly from family albums) reflect the late 1940s and early 1950s where teenage views and the community too were often still emerging.
About the Author Anne Konrad was born in Alberta, but grew up on Clearbrook Road in a then Mennonite village in Abbotsford, BC. She graduated from MEI (Mennonite Educational Institute), from UBC (University of British Columbia) and studied at the University of Toronto. In her era, girls being expected to become teachers or nurses and to support husbands achieving academic careers, Anne became a high school teacher. She married, moved to New York City (a world of "West Side Story" and racial temperatures). After living in the USA and in Europe, she moved to Toronto. Here expressways were being stopped while Eaton's show window curtains were still closed Sundays. In Toronto, where Anne taught English and ESL many of her students were immigrants living in the inner city, Over the years, Anne translated and edited books and published stories and articles in literary and professional journals and in anthologies. Her novel, The Blue Jar (Queenston House) was published in 1985. A short story collection Family Games (Netherlandic Press) followed in 1992. A family saga And In Their Silent Beauty Speak (Pandora Press), came out in 2004 and Red Quarter Moon: A Search for family in the Shadow of Stalin (University of Toronto Press) in 2012 told the story of her years long travel to distant countries to locate relatives lost in the upheaval following the Bolshevik Revolution. Konrad married her high school sweetheart, has three grown children, four grandchildren and regularly returns to the Fraser Valley to visit members of her extended family and to reconnect with life on a once gravelled road, but now the fast-moving highway called Clearbrook Road.
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