E121 - Tanis Rideout, National bestselling author and 2006 Poet Laureate for Lake Ontario

E121 - Tanis Rideout’s internationally acclaimed first novel, Above All Things, was a national bestseller, named to numerous best books of the year lists, and published in several languages around the world. It was awarded the Premio ITAS del Libro di Montagna and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel is The Sea Between Two Shores. She is also the author of the poetry collection Arguments with the Lake, and, in 2006, she was named the “Poet Laureate for Lake Ontario” by the environmental advocacy group Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. Born in Belgium, she grew up in Bermuda and in Kingston, Ontario, and now lives in Los Angeles.

We talked about her latest novel out now, The Sea Between Two Shores, which begins in the early 1800s when a Nova Scotian couple arrive on an island in the Oceanic archipelago, now known as Vanuatu, to convert the local Indigenous peoples. Two hundred years later a Toronto family are mourning the loss of their son. The lives of both families connect by their desire for healing and the desire to heal the actions of their ancestors. 

We talked about Canada's past, the digital country, disappearing due to climate change, and hopepunk!

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