From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp—and the night that will shape their lives for decades to come.
A group of young girls descends on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets and camp songs by the fire. Bursting with excitement and nervous energy, they set off on an overnight kayaking trip to a nearby island. But before the night is over, they find themselves stranded, with no adults to help them survive or guide them home.
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore follows these five girls—Nita, Kayla, Isabel, Dina and Siobhan—through and beyond this fateful trip. We see the survivors through the successes and failures, loves and heartbreaks of their teen and adult years, and we come to understand how a tragedy can alter the lives it touches in innumerable ways. In diamond-sharp prose, Kim Fu gives us a portrait of friendship and of the families we build for ourselves—and the pasts we can’t escape.
http://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443453592/the-lost-girls-of-camp-forevermore
Now in its 31st year, the University of British Columbia presents the Brave New Play Rites Festival premiering twenty six short plays at Studio 1398 on Granville Island. We have 10 Full Productions and 16 Staged Readings, written by UBC Creative Writing students, and performed and presented by talent from in and around the Vancouver theatre community. Twenty-six writers, fourteen directors, thirty-five actors, three producers, and a six-member technical team create stories of profundity, chaos and hilarity.