KAMLOOPS – A new book which explores aspects of small-city lifestyle and logistics will be launched next week.

New Star Books will be hosting a book launch for The Small Cities Book Tuesday, May 3rd at 6:00 pm at Merlin Books on Victoria Street.

The new book, which includes 25 essays, stories, and visual pieces, explores what it means to live in a smaller community during the era of global megacities.

Using Kamloops as their example, the authors of The Small Cities Book explore notions of home and homelessness, ideas of space and a local sense of place.

Drawing upon the work of the Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance (CURA), the book contains writing and artwork by 12 TRU faculty, an equal number of community research partners, and 15 students. It is co-edited by TRU English professor and CURA grant-holder Dr. Will Garrett-Petts and CURA’s Lon Dubinsky.

For more information, please contact Bronwen Scott by phone at 250-828-5739 or email.