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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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Indian School Road

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Drive-by Saviours

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Boy With a Problem

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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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“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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