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 Reena
A Father's Story
Can $29.95, hardcover
Manjit Virk
The story of the Virk family is set against a tragic backdrop that remains one of the most widely discussed crimes of our time.
On the night of November 14, 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk, a troubled Victoria high-school student, was swarmed and beaten by a group of teenagers and eventually killed. At the time, Reena's father Manjit, a soft-spoken, sensitive immigrant from the Punjab state of India, had already been let down by both social-services and law-enforcement authorities. He and his wife, Suman, had struggled with the challenges of conflicting cultures and religions, of family dissension and child-rearing ideologies, and with allegations of wrongdoing and the resulting tarnished reputations.
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 Nobody's Father
Life Without Kids
Can $19.95, softcover with flaps
Edited by Lynne Van Luven and Bruce Gillespie
In a sequel to the celebrated collection of stories
Nobody's Mother comes an honest and poignant collection of essays from men who have forgone fatherhood.
 Nobody's Mother
Life Without Kids
Can $19.95, softcover with flaps
Edited by Lynne Van Luven
Foreword by Shelagh Rogers
Statistics say that one in 10 women has no intention of taking the plunge into motherhood. Nobody's Mother is a collection of stories by women who have already made this choice.
From introspective to humorous to rabble-rousing, these are personal stories that are well and honestly told. The writers range in age from early 30s to mid-70s and come from diverse backgrounds. All have thought long and hard about the role of motherhood, their own destinies, what mothering means in our society and what their choice means to them as individuals and as members of their ethnic communities or social groups.
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