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Chris Benjamin is a fiction and features writer.

His latest book is The Art of Forgiveness, from Galleon Books, a collection of linked short stories about three boys growing up (rough) in the suburbs. His previous, nonfiction, books include Chasing Paradise and Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, which won the Dave Greber Social Justice Book Award. His short story collection, Boy With A Problem, was a finalist for the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction.

He is also the author of Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada (winner of the 2012 APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award & finalist for the 2012 Evelyn Richardson nonfiction prize) and the critically-acclaimed novel, Drive-by Saviou
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Average rating: 4.29 · 304 ratings · 95 reviews · 18 distinct worksSimilar authors
Indian School Road

4.38 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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Drive-by Saviours

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Boy With a Problem

4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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2024 Favourite Reads

My list of my Favourite Dozen books I read last year (though definitely not necessarily published last year) is now up at https://chris-benjamin.ca/my-favourit....

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Chris and 4 other people liked Tom Wile's review of Boom Road:
Boom Road by Shawn Lawlor
"Pretty well written. Characters were well developed and you definitely got into them. I could see this book could have been longer and more in depth. Would have like to have seen the character ‘Mike’ as a bigger protagonist. Maybe the writer explored" Read more of this review »
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These working-class characters very much feel like my friends and family growing up. They were well constructed. I particularly liked that the main protagonist traversed the river by canoe and on skates--a great way to show the reader the place at a ...more
Chris and 4 other people liked Jim Fisher's review of Boom Road:
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"A very pleasurable read for a first novel. Especially so as it is set in Miramichi where I live, so it felt like a homegrown story (which it is, as the author is from here). Another good release from NB's Galleon Books."
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Douglas Adams
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Frantz Fanon
“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you
and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them
you will not know them, and what you do not know
you will fear. What one fears one destroys.”
Dan George

Graham Steele
“It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.”
Graham Steele

Alice Walker
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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Gerry Burnie Thanks for the invite, Chris. I've read "Drive by Saviours" and will write a review when I can. Interesting story, though.


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