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Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to "go west," Amy Kaler offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, middle age, and climate catastrophe. She explores "ruins" of the human history of the North American settler west—faded hamlets, bunkers, fields of cars, bends in the river—that serve as emblems of hope, generational commitment abandoned by contemporary heirs, faith, hubris, even carelessness. These stops are intertwined with reflections on aging, temporality, and change, making the book feel like a deeply satisfying road trip with a thoughtful friend. Moving from meditative to ardent to sobering in compelling and measured ways, Half-Light shimmers with urgency and suggestion.
Contents
Prologue
Central Alberta, Somewhere Near Rumsey
Westbound
Retlaw
On Fire for the Rest of My Life
Rossdale Flats and the Bomb Shelter
The West and Its Ruins
Swan Hills
Westbound All Along
Campus Saint-Jean
The End of the World and the Ends of the Earth
Dalum
Orphans
St. Paul
My Seventies
Strathcona Science Park
The Years Before Me, the Years Behind
Newbrook
Ancestors and Descendants
Wostok and Spaca Moskalyk
Home for the Time Being
Packingtown
The Most Important Things Have Already Happened
Holy Transfiguration
Standing Pose
Rowley
"Your Cell Will Teach You"
Newcastle Mine
Time Management
Abbotsford
Keeping Time
Rochfort Bridge
Pigeons
Palliser Triangle
Who Is That?
Bunchberry Meadows
Top Ten Crises
Beaverhill Lake
Epilogue: Eastbound
Acknowledgements
References
