Sunday September 22, 2013 11am - 5pm.
Halifax Waterfront, around the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Jim Williams
Event Info: 'Remarkable Reads with Halifax Magazine' Stage at 1:00 - 1:30
Jim Williams was born and raised in Vancouver and has lived in Toronto, San Francisco, and Halifax, working at many jobs along the way, including in the asbestos mine and mill depicted in Rock Reject. He now lives in Halifax, where he and his wife, Jane Finlay-Young, divide their time between their massage therapy practices and writing.
Books
Rock Reject
Though still a young man, Peter has experienced a life's worth of heartache. Unable to face the reminders of his loss, he flees Toronto, exiling himself to a mountaintop mine in northern British Columbia. Into the stark, grey land of Stikine Peter arrives, broken and withdrawn. “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” reads the sign to Rock Reject, the dusty, noisy area of the mine where Peter shovels spilt rock and dust onto a conveyor belt. The year is 1974 and the Company is mining asbestos, which it claims poses no health risks to either mine workers or residents of the nearby native community. Try as he might to push aside his concern for others, Peter can’t help getting involved when the wellbeing of those around him is put on the line. Digging for the truth, Peter finds more than he bargained for in this compelling story of personal struggle and political change.
