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Gwynne Hunt's Unlocking the Tin Box (Silver Bow Publishing 2019 / 9781774030103) is a family memoir that describes growing up in Vancouver and Kamloops in the 1950s and 1960s in a dysfunctional home with alcoholic parents and sexual abuse. Hunt describes it as "a personal journey of living with a con man and a carny, but a still very caring Dad. He kept the family going surviving and growing." With some DNA evidence for grist, this is a generational journey. Hunt has also self-published a collection of poetry called bruises and bad haircuts [sic] and a book about murdered and missing women and children in Canada called ramage [sic].
Through My Lens takes a look back through the Depression, WW2 and into the 80s through an examination of newspaper records. A fictional story weaves the clippings together. Hunt knew there was an unsettling past, but she did not know the shocking revelations that would come of her research and her DNA findings. Her father turned out not to be her biological father and records show he was a murder suspect, a vagrant, and a thief. His ex-wife was known as the Big Boss of Powell Street in Vancouver, whose son was sent to prison for one of the biggest drug busts to hit the West Coast in the 1950s. Hunt's real father was a man known to her as her dad’s best friend from Standard, Alberta. His family included a great uncle who was a well-known artist and another who was a world traveller who brought back rare seeds from Russian and China. A Scientist whose work is studied today. Hunt's mother rebelled from a strict upbringing based on religion and suffered the loss of seven babies before she gave birth to three girls: all with different fathers. Somehow the three daughters came together and this book is their story.
BOOKS
Through My Lens (Silver Bow Publishing, 2021) $24. Novel
Unlocking the Tin Box (Silver Bow Publishing, 2019) 9781774030103. Memoir
The Adventures of Bob & Boo (Penny-a-Line, 2018). Novel
Rampage: the pathology of an epidemic (Penny-a-Line, 2011). Non-fiction
Bruises and Bad Haircuts (Penny-a-Line, 2011). Poetry
[BCBW 2021]
Through My Lens takes a look back through the Depression, WW2 and into the 80s through an examination of newspaper records. A fictional story weaves the clippings together. Hunt knew there was an unsettling past, but she did not know the shocking revelations that would come of her research and her DNA findings. Her father turned out not to be her biological father and records show he was a murder suspect, a vagrant, and a thief. His ex-wife was known as the Big Boss of Powell Street in Vancouver, whose son was sent to prison for one of the biggest drug busts to hit the West Coast in the 1950s. Hunt's real father was a man known to her as her dad’s best friend from Standard, Alberta. His family included a great uncle who was a well-known artist and another who was a world traveller who brought back rare seeds from Russian and China. A Scientist whose work is studied today. Hunt's mother rebelled from a strict upbringing based on religion and suffered the loss of seven babies before she gave birth to three girls: all with different fathers. Somehow the three daughters came together and this book is their story.
BOOKS
Through My Lens (Silver Bow Publishing, 2021) $24. Novel
Unlocking the Tin Box (Silver Bow Publishing, 2019) 9781774030103. Memoir
The Adventures of Bob & Boo (Penny-a-Line, 2018). Novel
Rampage: the pathology of an epidemic (Penny-a-Line, 2011). Non-fiction
Bruises and Bad Haircuts (Penny-a-Line, 2011). Poetry
[BCBW 2021]
