Vera Maloff has grown up trying to learn the stories of her family's history, ones they were hesitant to discuss. Now, she's resurrected those tales in her book Our Backs Warmed by the Sun: Memories of a Doukhobor Life.

She shares an insider's perspective on the incarceration of both adults and children in Canada, and what it was like growing up in the Kootenays as a Doukhobor.

Maloff says it's a departure from the scandalous local headlines of arson and nudity, and takes a closer look at their pacifist roots and way of life.