A graveyard shift bakery janitor named Martin Epp cracks after 21 years on the job in Grant Buday's White Lung (Anvil $15.95), a darkly comic portrait of racial conflicts in B.C. Described as 'Dickension in magnitude', the story is based on Buday's eight years of work in a mass production bakery. The bakery's U.S. parent company threatens to close its Vancouver plant in conjunction with union-management conflicts. A section of White Lung won a Western Magazine Award for Fiction in 1997.

[BCBW SUMMER 1999]