![]() ![]() ![]() People who used to garden, now grow cannabis.īrandon’s story is of the best of human nature winning out against our inhuman technocratic world. has tightened security, and the Americans and Canadians who once laughed and waved at each other across “the ditch” (as they called the invisible border ) now become suspicious of every move. To everyone’s amazement he catches one smuggler after another. He leaves his father’s dairy farm for a job with Border Patrol. His hero, Brandon Vanderkool, is a tall (6′ 8″) American,rugged, but also dyslexic – with a special feeling for the earth and sea and all birds living within earshot. He has got the same touch in this new book. Jim Lynch is the author of “The Highest Tide”, a wonderful story about the sea and a group of people living beside it. “Border Songs” not only comes out at a timely moment in Canada-U.S.border talks, it is also a powerful novel about the people living on both sides of this border on the Pacific coast. ![]()
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