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In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestled in the BC Interior.

Blessed unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media.

"In 1880 the Government of Canada commenced construction of a national railroad that was promised to British Columbia as a condition of entering Confederation in 1871.

The magical story of friendship between twenty-something Sylvia Hardy and Lydie Jim, an eighty-two year old Tlingit elder from the Yukon who met when the Sylvia agreed to be Lydie’s tutor.

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam.