Stephen Hume will be at the Laughing Oyster Book Shop to sign his most recent book, A Walk with the Rainy Sisters: In Praise of British Columbia’s Places, this Saturday.
This book is a lyrical testament to a great love affair between the writer and his region.
Hume writes with passion about his favourite topic — the geography of British Columbia, guiding readers through the natural world, moving from the thin, cold air of B.C.’s high country to the silence of the deep rainforest.
He writes of the iridescence of dragonflies dancing out brief lives above summer ponds and the brittle forests of glass sponges growing in the lightless depths of the continental shelf, where they have flourished undisturbed since the Jurassic period.
Hume contemplates the meaning of rain; the tawny islets in the Salish Sea; what the night sky tells us about our place in time; about people who choose to live at the margins, and the relentless passage of lives and seasons, loss and renewal.
Meet Stephen Hume at the Laughing Oyster Book Shop at 286 Fifth St. in Courtenay this Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m.
On Saturday afternoon, Hume will be a featured speaker at the interfaith community dialogue Seeking Balance – Listening to the Spirit of the Land, presented by the Comox Valley Community Justice Centre in the Rotary Room of the Florence Filberg Centre.
For more information or to participate, call the CJC at 250-334-8101.
— Laughing Oyster Book Shop