Happy Wednesday, everyone from Lisa, the LPG Sales Rep for Central Canada.

First day of school, and first day of the LPG staff blog. Like the keen sales person, parent, student, etc that I am, I volunteered (a few weeks ago when it seemed like a good idea) to write the first in a series of posts for our newsletter blog. So, after kissing my daughter goodbye for the new school year, and after pouring my second cup of coffee - I'm going to introduce you to my favourite read of this past summer. 

I'm not a book reviewer, and have no allusions about my ability to critically assess a writer's work; but, as a sales person, communicator and marketer, I know what I like. And I liked Kathy Dobson's With a Closed Fist (Growing Up in Canada's Toughest Neighborhood), published this fall by Vehicule Press. It's a memoir, plain and simple. It spoke to me because its underlying theme is one of social justice and activism, and what it was like to be a child of a passionate, articulate, yet uneducated and poor mother trying to make changes in a neighborhood rife with the culture class of the French and the English. Young Kathy's voice is so blunt, and sometimes the language made me cringe, but what a story she has to tell. 

I can't say I've read anything quite this moving and so well written in a long time.

Teachers: introduce your Grade 10 kids to this book.

Libraries: make this a permanent part of your collection.

Everyone else with a social conscience: pick it up and learn something.

I can't wait for more from this wonderful writer.

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