Sourcebooks for Our Drawings

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2019

ISBN-13: 9781928171850

<p>Winner of the The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction, <em>Sourcebooks for Our Drawings</em> is a book steeped in place: the rural idyll of a Southeastern New Brunswick farmhouse, the author's childhood suburbia, and the commercial sprawl of contemporary Atlantic Canada. Each piece provides a snapshot of New Brunswick in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a place at once unique and startlingly not-so in our globalized world. Part fragmentary memoir, part genre hybrid, and entirely a compilation of familial lore, Jacobs’ new book—his first in prose—is a singular and idiosyncratic portrait of New Brunswick, an alternate history and an antidote to dry regionalism. A formally innovative and very personal work, <em>Sourcebooks for Our Drawing</em>s nevertheless addresses universal concerns about our fraught relationships with nostalgia and memory.</p><p>Winner of the The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction, <em>Sourcebooks for Our Drawings</em> is a book steeped in place: the rural idyll of a Southeastern New Brunswick farmhouse, the author's childhood suburbia, and the commercial sprawl of contemporary Atlantic Canada. Each piece provides a snapshot of New Brunswick in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a place at once unique and startlingly not-so in our globalized world. Part fragmentary memoir, part genre hybrid, and entirely a compilation of familial lore, Jacobs’ new book—his first in prose—is a singular and idiosyncratic portrait of New Brunswick, an alternate history and an antidote to dry regionalism. A formally innovative and very personal work, <em>Sourcebooks for Our Drawing</em>s nevertheless addresses universal concerns about our fraught relationships with nostalgia and memory.</p>