The last-but-not-least novel that made the B.C. Book Prize's short list is Before The Flood by Alan R. Wilson. Let me quote Keith Maillard from its back cover. "He tells us once again that old story about a boy growing up in a small town and makes every bit of it sparklingly new."; Authors who have tried this feat approach a new growing-up book with a great fear that it might out-do us all. Damn you, Wilson, I believe you're one of the good ones.

[Robert Harlow / BCBW 2000]