Good Enough from Here

Good Enough from Here is a compelling work of creative nonfiction an artifact of Canadiana set in the real-life geographical and historical context of Canadian Forces Station (CFS) ALERT on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island in the late 1970s. Considered at the time Canadas most northerly permanently inhabited location the small orange civilization within the base perimeter serves as a stage for the interplay of relationships among companions father figures military culture--perhaps a micro-prophecy of the country and its future within the Inuit animism of the landscape itself.The tale traces the unlikely journey of a band of young men from a small southern Ontario town to the expanse of Canadas High Arctic. Part of an environmental clean-up crew they confront the technological spoor and detritus accumulated since the stations founding in 1950. The Midnight Sun the sheer isolation even the magical realism of certain rooms in certain buildings call out to each of them.Good Enough from Here is in the authors words a quirky environmental tale of the transformation of an irreverent society of youthful Frozen Chosen into a primitive state of young manhood--a coming-of-age story taking a birds-eye view of military culture from a civilians perspective. But finally it is what is known as Inuit Nunangata Ungata the land beyond the land of the people that takes centre stage then as now tolerating the worlds geopolitical ecological and sovereign attention.