{"id":8673,"date":"2020-09-02T11:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:32:42","slug":"shaena-lambert-launches-her-latest-novel-petra-on-cortes-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/shaena-lambert-launches-her-latest-novel-petra-on-cortes-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaena Lambert launches her latest novel &#8220;Petra&#8221; on Cortes Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Roy L Hales<\/p>\n<p>The internationally recognized novelist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaenalambert.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.shaenalambert.com\/\">Shaena Lambert<\/a>\u00a0recently made a virtual visit to Marnie\u2019s Books, on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/cortes-island\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/cortes-island\/\">Cortes Island<\/a>. Four of works have been chosen for Best Canadian stories and the Globe and Mail recognised three of her previous novels as books of the year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaenalambert.com\/about-the-author\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.shaenalambert.com\/about-the-author\/\">Lambert is also a dedicated environmentalist<\/a>, who was arrested twice during the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/burnaby-mountain-conservation-forest\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/burnaby-mountain-conservation-forest\/\">Burnaby Mountain protests<\/a>, and continues to actively oppose oil pipelines and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/old-growth-forest\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/old-growth-forest\/\">logging of old growth<\/a>. In the most recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/folk-u\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/tag\/folk-u\/\">Folk U Friday radio program<\/a>, the Vancouver novelist explained why she chose to virtually launch her new novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaenalambert.com\/all-books\/petra\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.shaenalambert.com\/all-books\/petra\/\">Petra<\/a>, on Cortes Island.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lambert wrote much of the book on Cortes and loves going to Manson's Friday Market, to dances, swimming and loves the local community.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8668\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lambert_Petra_r2_2-600x880-1.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"Cover of Shaena Lambert's new novel - Petra\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8668\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8668\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lambert_Petra_r2_2-600x880-1.jpg\" alt=\"Petra\" width=\"600\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lambert_Petra_r2_2-600x880-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lambert_Petra_r2_2-600x880-1-341x500.jpg 341w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lambert_Petra_r2_2-600x880-1-500x733.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lambert_Petra_r2_2-600x880-1-147x215.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of Shaena Lambert's new novel - Petra<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>About Petra<\/h2>\n<p>As for the book, Lambert explained:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the 1980s, I got, as many many people did, incredibly involved in the peace movement. We can sometimes forget just how horrifying it was to live under the nuclear shadow. I was really scared. I was coming of age in that time. I got involved in the peace movement and we invited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Petra_Kelly\">Petra Kelly<\/a>, founder of the Green Party and the leader in Germany\u2019s fight against nuclear missiles, to come to Vancouver,\u201d Lambert said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should pause for a second and explain that at that time there was a kind of ground zero for the nuclear protests and it was Germany,\" Lambert said. \"That was because NATO planned to put Pershing missiles and Cruise missiles in West Germany. Then there was the iron curtain. East Germany and Russia had SS20 nuclear missiles on the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what they said is we are preparing for battlefield nuclear war. Everyone knew, generals knew and most analysts said \u2018this is going to escalate into all out nuclear war within minutes,\" Lambert added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were terrified. We lived and breathed that atomic terror the way we live climate anxiety now \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can purchase Petra through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chapters.indigo.ca\/en-ca\/books\/petra\/9780735279575-item.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indigo<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/dp\/0735279578\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon.\u00a0<\/a>The ebook is available from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/ca\/en\/ebook\/petra-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/dp\/B085BTHFW1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img class=\"wp-image-87962 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Shaena-live-on-stage-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Shaena Lambert\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" \/><figcaption>Shaena live on stage \u2013 submitted photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Links of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/shaena-lambert-and-canadas-independent-book-seller-day-say-thank-you-to-the-best-little-island-book-store-ever-marnies-books\/\">Manda Aufoch Gillespie\u2019s visit to Marnie\u2019s Books (and interview with Shaena Lambert) on Folk U Friday<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cortescurrents.ca\/small-bookstore-with-big-draw-on-cortes-island\/\">Rochelle Baker\u2019s article about Marnie\u2019s bookstore \u2013 \u201cSmall Book store with Big Draw on Cortes Island\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaenalambert.com\/\">Shaena Lambert\u2019s website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roy L Hales The internationally recognized novelist\u00a0Shaena Lambert\u00a0recently made a virtual visit to Marnie\u2019s Books, on\u00a0Cortes Island. Four of works have been chosen for Best Canadian stories and the Globe and Mail recognised three of her previous novels as books of the year.\u00a0Lambert is also a dedicated environmentalist, who was arrested twice during the\u00a0Burnaby&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":8677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219],"tags":[1026,1025],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}