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The War At Home: An Intimate Portrait Of Canada's Poor
by Pat Capponi | Nonfiction
Registered by goatgrrl of New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Saturday, July 22, 2006
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Journal Entry 1 by goatgrrl from New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Saturday, July 22, 2006

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Purchased for $2 at the Salvation Army Thriftstore on Broadway, while Mr. Goatgrrl was at the dentist.

(Left: author Pat Capponi.) 

Journal Entry 2 by goatgrrl from New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Friday, October 12, 2007

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This book was surprisingly captivating. I read it over the course of a sleepless night, finishing it over a latte on a quiet Friday morning in Vancouver's uber-affluent South Granville district (a weird contrast to the subject matter of the book). Capponi, a Toronto-based psychiatric survivor with a long history of anti-poverty activism in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood, travelled the country getting acquainted with poverty as it manifests in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and St. John's, Newfoundland. Her stories of the lives of real poor people in each of these cities make for a disheartening read, but are at once funny, insightful and politically challenging.

The War At Home reminded me a lot of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel & Dimed, and I'd recommend this book highly to anyone who read and felt mobilized by the latter. A great read. 

Journal Entry 3 by goatgrrl at Big News Coffee Bar in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Friday, October 12, 2007

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Released 4 yrs ago (10/12/2007 UTC) at Big News Coffee Bar in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada

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Left on the outside counter at Big News, at the corner of Broadway & Granville. It's a beautiful fall day, so I hope someone will have picked this book up before it gets rained on, or thrown in the trash by a street sweeper (better yet, I hope the guy in the fluorescent vest I saw sweeping the sidewalk might have seen it and taken an interest!). 



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