Tranquility Lost : The Occupation of Tranquille and Battle for Community Care in BC Product Form:Paperback / softback and at her most powerful

and at her most powerful Lam resurrects a potent contemplation of familial mistakes

McNeilly gives us the lives of the jive cats and jellyroll mamas and Dixieland trumpeters who gave jazz meaning by making sure it'd swing

and prose poetry

3 stars out of 4

Winner First Nation Communities READ Award (2017)

Tranquility Lost : The Occupation of Tranquille and Battle for Community Care in BC Product Form:Paperback / softback and at her most powerfulDescription In 1983, the BC provincial government announced plans to close Tranquille, a large residential institution for persons with intellectual disabilities located outside Kamloops. The announcement was made with no community placement plans for residents. The nearly six hundred employees of Tranquille, members of the BC Government Employees Union and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses, were alarmed by the lack of any Ministry of Human Resources