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PAGE 26 WATERLOO was. WWI t=EhdttErt 21. You have to be still and quiet Sharon Butaia's The Ftrfictittet ofthe Mom" is a brave yxxA: tot several reasons. _ éutala iw; a iine reputation as a fiction Miter, but this ume she has em the nortmction "odd. No. ple have often wrlteo aesifyratohy in the guise of 'ncnm. Butala has faced her We dirdctty andUrittert about It Without the disguise or safety of Rcttkmaliz- Her life IS itself an act oi courage. Sham Baala had a pvomtsmg Career as an academic which she len tur a new hie style on a ranch in scxnhweslem Saskatchewan, she&aesnotpeteodthatshedkiit only because oi a man. She loved him, but she loved him ior what he stood tor, ior the life he Ied. She married not only Peter Bulala but also the nat- ural, ohm raw. work) he lived rn. mg " Thrs comer oi Saskatchewan Is bare and isolated. Butala discovers that it Is also deeply beautiful, a hand which natnte tribes considered sacred. A little at a tune, she comes to see R, to understand it, to Ine Into It Through her connecttoo with the land, "he learns to be a writer: I would use the maternal around me, but I would see It with my own eyes, hear it with my own ears. sense It with my own body. The patrorchal attitudes to wntmg she learned in the unNersltN had to be set asude She +es tit that Vt5tOt3 Into her I've, though, and mlo her book. If she I; sometimes a but awkward about domg so, she sighs to herself that maybe her tmng to tell her story wt” encourage other people to tt-H them Autobiography has never been easy to write Peuple may talk to one another (cautiously) about their wsnonarv or numinous experiences, but they rarelv write about them. In a sec ular. btgtorrvline.oi. pmm world then have been seed as less than appro- pnale or rmtahle happenings. Perhaps most courageouaw of all, Butala tells the ,0pry of her muons, born out of her close attention to herself and to the land: "The world was deeper and more baithrtg than I knew, but how I should fit this “non mm my lute, I had no dead' ' Butala lakés on that a of attitudes, and she writes . . . upenlv about her dreams and muons. She had to Judith Miller IS Associate Professor of English " rmd the language to do that, as well as the courage. Renlson College at University of Waterloo. FOR ALL YOUR CHRISTMAS FRESH BAKED GOODS 105 LEXINGTON an as 200 LORRAINE AVE. no WATEFILOO 7251920 Krrcneuea nuns FAX 725-0295 99 WEBER ST. W., " KITCHENER “4-4643 far "It" readmg plenum. hen us some background And history on our banal I‘x-rr Jr: .cxcml mm m! 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Butala tells us what it is like to go the other way, from the urban centre into the countryside. Butala records her errors, her fears, her clumsiness. She is astonished at how much she has to set aside, how much she has to releam. At first, “I felt invisible here and dead," she says. She makes her way through to other understandings. “I! iiaihthiutau an awful irony that she has dis covered the value of this way of life on the land just at the hme when it is most tltteitteoed: . Some of these discoveries astonish her: "We haven’t yet learned to tell the nah about our lives." She believes the deepest insights lurk in he silences, In the quiet places of our hearts and experiences. Truth speaks, she says, but to hear it, "Yau have to be still and quiet." This is a book for this time of year, m BEST NEW YEAR’S RESOLUHON ... NEW YEAR'S EVE MUSICAL KEVUE WITH THE GUSE FAMILY .WAIERLOOINN Doors Open at (1:50 pm Dinner Buffet from "pm to 9 pm. Entertainment & Dancing 9 pm and on! . 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