What is family? Is it defined by blood and birth? Or can we invite whomever we want into that intimate embrace?
The Royal BC Museum's new book, The Language of Family: Stories of Bonds and Belonging, invites readers to pull up a guest chair at the family table.
Twenty contributors from across British Columbia - museum curators, cultural luminaries, writers and thinkers young and old, from First Nations, LGBTQ, Japanese Canadian and Punjabi communities, among others, share their vastly different perspectives on what family means in this superb collection of personal narratives, poems and essays.
This collection will provoke, tease, enlighten and infuriate. Isn't that what family does best?
Michelle van der Merwe
has been the publisher at the Royal BC Museum and Archives since 2015. Her background includes design and journalism, and her extensive editing experience comes from many years of both in-house and contract projects that have included fiction and non-fiction books, magazines and corporate communications. Michelle has been a contributing editor at Geist magazine since 2004, a member-at-large on the board of the Magazine Association of BC (2014-15) and a director on the National Executive Council of the Editors' Association of Canada (2013-17). She is currently a member-at-large on the board of the Association of Book Publishers of BC and an active member of the Association of Canadian Publishers.
Winner of the 2018 PubWest Book Design Award
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