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Written by Brian Thomas Isaac Review by Jon G. Bradley

“Eddie found what he was looking for: the hollow tree he’d often crawled inside when he was little.” The reader is brought full circle in Eddie’s life journey. Complicated by family dysfunction along with location and society, Eddie searches for personal meaning at a time when greater possibilities for Aboriginal people were severely limited.

A raucous childhood frames Eddie Toma’s formative adolescent and teenage years on the Okanagan Indian Reservation in the interior of British Columbia. Constantly dealing with the vicissitudes of life on a poverty-stricken Reserve, including the impact of the lack of electricity, Eddie’s reality is further complicated by an absentee father and a demanding mother, along with unexpected tragedies.

In many ways, Eddie is like the salmon swimming upriver; that is, no matter the determination he employs to right both family and situational wrongs, he seems to make little progress. He is not protected from life’s unpleasantness and, even at a young age, experiences death, want, and family separations. He is constantly torn between his own needs and wants and those of the two conflicting societies in which he is immersed. A burning question for Eddie concerns his own cultural history and how he might interact with a wider community that appears at times to be most antagonistic.

First-time novelist Isaac has penned a powerfully emotional novel that captures the realities of life on a Reserve at mid-20th-century. The weight of personal growth weighs heavily as Eddie confronts forces far beyond his control: at what point does he cease seeking change and simply acquiesce? Realistically, the denouement offers possibilities but no clear resolution—such is life!

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All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac

A novel about a indigenous boy grappling with the effects of intergenerational trauma and colonialism, social sharing.

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It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch the sunset and listening to the wind in the grass. The boys learn from Ray's funny and dark stories. But when tragedy strikes, Eddie returns home grief-stricken, confused, and lonely.

Eddie's life is governed by the decisions of the adults around him. Grace is determined to have him learn the ways of the white world by sending him to school in the small community of Falkland. On Eddie's first day of school, as he crosses the reserve boundary at the Salmon River bridge, he leaves behind his world.

Grace challenges the Indian Agent and writes futile letters to Ottawa to protest the sparse resources in their community. His father returns to the family after years away only to bring chaos and instability. Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house. Only in his grandmother's company does he find solace and true companionship.

In his teens, Eddie's future seems more secure — he finds a job, and his long-time crush on his white neighbour Eva is finally reciprocated. But every time things look up, circumstances beyond his control crash down around him. The cumulative effects of guilt, grief, and despair threaten everything Eddie has ever known or loved.

All the Quiet Places  is the story of what can happen when every adult in a person's life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded, unsentimental witness provided by Eddie. ( From Touchwood Editions )

All the Quiet Places  was on  the  Canada Reads  2022 longlist  and the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist  and was a finalist for  the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction .

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Brian Thomas Isaac was born on the Okanagan Indian Reserve, in south central B.C. He's worked in oil fields, as a bricklayer, and he had a short career riding bulls in local rodeos. As a lover of sports, he has coached minor hockey.  All the Quiet Places  is his first book.

Why Brian Thomas Isaac wrote All the Quiet Places

"Laughter is medicine to me. It gives relief to uncomfortable situations. For example, two non-First Nations friends are walking down the street when one trips over a crack in the sidewalk and falls. 'Oh, are you OK?' is the concerted reaction of the friend. But what happens to two First Nations people? The instant reaction is knee-slapping laughter. It's a totally different reaction. It's how we cope. Not everybody, but a lot of people that I grew up with react this way.

Laughter is medicine to me. It gives relief to uncomfortable situations. - Brian Thomas Isaac

"I hope I'm not generalizing here. I don't mean to do that. Maybe the gap between cultures isn't as deep as I think it is.

"But if this book could help some non-First Nations people understand just a little bit, it kind of turned out the way I hoped it would." 

Read his full interview with CBC Books.

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All the Quiet Places

Brian Thomas Isaac’s debut novel comes with a long list of awards and almosts:

Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize A National Bestseller Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards’ Published Prose in English Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022 An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021 An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Book of 2021

And it is for this reason I chose to read this much-acclaimed novel.

My decision was met with disappointment and even frustration. I shall enumerate for those who care to read:

– The writing was flat, like reading a 14 year-old’s English literature assignment. There were no literary devices to engage and evoke response. There was no emotion. Only events and facts. It was almost like reading a statement from a person suffering from PTSD.

– There was no character development, no nuance, no tying character to environment and situation. It was simply a recounting of events.

To illustrate: early in the novel there is a death of the child-protagonist’s friend and relative. It is a tragic event. But there is no emotion whatever involved in that event, or that crucial scene. No reaction. The boy drowns. The friend finds him. The families pack up and move on.

In the early portion of the novel there is a hint of the misery about which Steinbeck wrote so well in The Grapes of Wrath . But unlike Steinbeck, Isaac fails to evoke any sense of social injustice, of rage, of misery. It’s all just events moving across a flat cinematic landscape. And more’s the pity, because there is much about which to rage, to engage, to evoke response. But instead Isaac’s novel remains in the flatline grey zone of a could-be great.

At about the halfway point the writing, characterization, and plot arc had become so predictable, stereotyped, and tedious I started speed-reading just to get through it, hoping at some point to find some nugget, some gem to engage my pathos, my investment.

And in the end, in this hopeless tale, hopelessly written, is a hopeless finality which loses all impact because as a reader I wasn’t invested.

Certainly the plight of Canada’s First Nations people is worthy of examination, of our engagement, of our call to action. And that has been done very eloquently and powerfully by writers like Thomas King, Joseph Boyden, Richard Wagamese, and more. But Isaac? Sadly, his is a whisper of a voice among a forest of giants.

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Finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards’ Published Prose in English Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022 An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021 An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Book of 2021

“What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Toma’s passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or perhaps a compensation, by his remarkable awareness of its beauty. This is a writer who understands youth, and how to tell a story.” —Gil Adamson, winner of the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Ridgerunner

Brian Isaac’s powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, an Indigenous (Syilx) boy, told through the young narrator’s wide-eyed observations of the world around him.

It’s 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel’s husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch the sunset and listening to the wind in the grass. The boys learn from Ray’s funny and dark stories. But when tragedy strikes, Eddie returns home grief-stricken, confused, and lonely.

Eddie’s life is governed by the decisions of the adults around him. Grace is determined to have him learn the ways of the white world by sending him to school in the small community of Falkland. On Eddie”s first day of school, as he crosses the reserve boundary at the Salmon River bridge, he leaves behind his world. Grace challenges the Indian Agent and writes futile letters to Ottawa to protest the sparse resources in their community. His father returns to the family after years away only to bring chaos and instability. Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house. Only in his grandmother’s company does he find solace and true companionship.

In his teens, Eddie’s future seems more secure—he finds a job, and his long-time crush on his white neighbour Eva is finally reciprocated. But every time things look up, circumstances beyond his control crash down around him. The cumulative effects of guilt, grief, and despair threaten everything Eddie has ever known or loved.

All the Quiet Places is the story of what can happen when every adult in a person’s life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded, unsentimental witness provided by Eddie.

About the Author(s)

Brian Thomas Isaac was born in 1950 on the Okanagan Indian Reserve, situated in south central British Columbia. As a teenager he had a short career riding bulls in local rodeos until common sense steered him away, then went on to work in the Northern Alberta oil fields and retired as a bricklayer. Writing is something he has done all of his life. A lover of sports, Brian has coached minor hockey and played slow-pitch, and when he’s not spending time with his three grandchildren you can find him on the golf course. His bestselling debut, All the Quiet Places , is longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize, won an Indigenous Voices Award, was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, longlisted for CBC Canada Reads, and named an Indigo Best Book of the Year. He lives with his wife in the Salmon River Valley near Falkland, BC.

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An Indigo Best Book of 2021 and a Top 10 Pick for Canadian Fiction

“ All the Quiet Places is a haunting coming-of-age story. The power of Isaac’s vision of young Eddie Toma growing up on an Okanagan reserve in the 1950s is the novel’s unflinching gaze, meticulous detailing and fierce attachment to family, land and love. Every line is so carefully curated and the dialogue was sharp.” — Indigenous Voices Awards

“ All the Quiet Places follows young Eddie as he tries to make sense of a life that’s suddenly impacted by a horror no one could have predicted” —Brit + CO

“I feel that Brian Thomas Isaac has earned every single word, every single sentence, every single line. There’s so much hilarity in here. There’s so much wisdom … My goodness, what a journey this book takes you on…”— Richard Van Camp, CBC Unreserved

“A debut like no other . . . beautifully written . . . [Isaac has] a tremendous attention to detail.” — Carol Off, CBC’s As it Happens

“Let me say how deeply this novel affected me. So many times I just stopped and went back over a sentence or a scene and thought, this is so good. Nothing matters except the reader being there—especially with a story like this. How else do you teach anyone anything? . . . Isaac does awareness and being present so well in his fiction. You can’t teach that.” — Gil Adamson, winner of the Writers’ Trust Prize for Ridgerunner

“ All the Quiet Places is a deftly crafted, evocative story about the trials of growing up Indigenous. Brian Thomas Isaac’s characters are complex, relatable, and overall, beautifully human.” —Waubgeshig Rice is the bestselling author of Moon of the Crusted Snow

“ All the Quiet Places is the kind of novel that works its way into your soul. Essentially, it’s a tale of childhood, all the wonders and tragedies, that befall a young boy on an Okanagan Reserve in the middle of the last century. Familiar, yet unique, Eddie’s story will captivate the reader. The best compliment I could bestow on this book is. . . I wish it was one or two chapters longer. I wanted more.” — Drew Hayden Taylor is from the Curve Lake First Nation and is the author of many books including Chasing Painted Horses

“On par with the brilliance of James Welch’s  Winter in The Blood  and Ruby Slipperjack’s  Little Voice , Brian Thomas Isaac has given us a startling read that’ll live wire your soul and haunt you for a good long while. Pure brilliance. Wow.” — Richard Van Camp is the author of  The Lesser Blessed  and  Moccasin Square Gardens

“Equal parts enchanting and agonizing, All the Quiet Places is an exceptional debut that not only transports the reader but also transforms them.”— Zeahaa Rehman, Quill & Quire

“Beautifully crafted coming-of-age story…”— Shazlin Rahman, Hamilton Review of Books

“ All the Quiet Places is primarily a tale about people. The forces that shape their lives are evoked with the same clarity as the snowberry bushes and beaver dams, the Christmas concerts and smoky pool halls. The result is a heartfelt and absorbing work of art.” — Bardia Sinaee, Literary Review of Canada

“First-time novelist Isaac has penned a powerfully emotional novel that captures the realities of life on a Reserve at mid-20th-century. The weight of personal growth weighs heavily as Eddie confronts forces far beyond his control: at what point does he cease seeking change and simply acquiesce? Realistically, the denouement offers possibilities but no clear resolution—such is life!” — Historical Novels Review

“Every single word advances the story. Each sentence presents the reader with vivid images that are so real, so familiar.” — Senk’lip News , newsletter of the Okanagan Indian Band

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Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize A National Bestseller Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022 Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads 2022 An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021 An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Book of 2021

"What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Toma's passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or perhaps a compensation, by his remarkable awareness of its beauty. This is a writer who understands youth, and how to tell a story." —Gil Adamson, winner of the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Ridgerunner

Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, an Indigenous (Syilx) boy, told through the young narrator's wide-eyed observations of the world around him.

It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch the sunset and listening to the wind in the grass. The boys learn from Ray's funny and dark stories. But when tragedy strikes, Eddie returns home grief-stricken, confused, and lonely.

Eddie's life is governed by the decisions of the adults around him. Grace is determined to have him learn the ways of the white world by sending him to school in the small community of Falkland. On Eddie"s first day of school, as he crosses the reserve boundary at the Salmon River bridge, he leaves behind his world. Grace challenges the Indian Agent and writes futile letters to Ottawa to protest the sparse resources in their community. His father returns to the family after years away only to bring chaos and instability. Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house. Only in his grandmother's company does he find solace and true companionship.

In his teens, Eddie's future seems more secure—he finds a job, and his long-time crush on his white neighbour Eva is finally reciprocated. But every time things look up, circumstances beyond his control crash down around him. The cumulative effects of guilt, grief, and despair threaten everything Eddie has ever known or loved.

All the Quiet Places is the story of what can happen when every adult in a person's life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded, unsentimental witness provided by Eddie.

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Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022 Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads 2022 An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021 An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Book of 2021

" All the Quiet Places is a haunting coming-of-age story. The power of Isaac’s vision of young Eddie Toma growing up on an Okanagan reserve in the 1950s is the novel’s unflinching gaze, meticulous detailing and fierce attachment to family, land and love. Every line is so carefully curated and the dialogue was sharp." —Indigenous Voices Awards

"I feel that Brian Thomas Isaac has earned every single word, every single sentence, every single line. There's so much hilarity in here. There's so much wisdom, there's so much wit . . . It's really a story of triumph. My goodness, what a journey this book takes you on . . . I think the best literature haunts you. Years later, I'm going to be thinking about this book." —Richard Van Camp, CBC's Unreserved

“A debut like no other . . . beautifully written . . . [Isaac has] a tremendous attention to detail.” —Carol Off, CBC’s As it Happens

"Equal parts enchanting and agonizing, All the Quiet Places is an exceptional debut that not only transports the reader but also transforms them." — Quill & Quire

All the Quiet Places , meanwhile, is primarily a tale about people. The forces that shape their lives are evoked with the same clarity as the snowberry bushes and beaver dams, the Christmas concerts and smoky pool halls. The result is a heartfelt and absorbing work of art." — Literary Review of Canada

"Isaac's unadorned prose is powerful and direct... All the Quiet Places tells a moving tale of marginalization, loss and neglect."— Fiddlehead

"First-time novelist Isaac has penned a powerfully emotional novel that captures the realities of life on a Reserve at mid-20th-century." —Historical Novels Review

"The writing is disarming yet unsentimental, never didactic or seething with an agenda; a masterful example of showing not telling and of staying true and consistent with the always tricky child's point of view." — BC BookWorld

“Every single word advances the story. Each sentence presents the reader with vivid images that are so real, so familiar.” —Senk’lip News, newsletter of the Okanagan Indian Band

"Beautifully crafted coming-of-age story..." — Hamilton Review

"What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Toma's passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or perhaps a compensation, by his remarkable awareness of its beauty. This is a writer who understands youth, and how to tell a story." —Gil Adamson is the winner of the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Ridgerunner

" All the Quiet Places is a deftly crafted, evocative story about the trials of growing up Indigenous. Brian Thomas Isaac's characters are complex, relatable, and overall, beautifully human." —Waubgeshig Rice is the bestselling author of Moon of the Crusted Snow

" All the Quiet Places is the kind of novel that works its way into your soul. Essentially, it's a tale of childhood, all the wonders and tragedies, that befall a young boy on an Okanagan Reserve in the middle of the last century. Familiar, yet unique, Eddie's story will captivate the reader. The best compliment I could bestow on this book is. . . I wish it was one or two chapters longer. I wanted more." —Drew Hayden Taylor is from the Curve Lake First Nation and is the author of many books including Chasing Painted Horses

"On par with the brilliance of James Welch's  Winter in The Blood  and Ruby Slipperjack's  Little Voice , Brian Thomas Isaac has given us a startling read that'll live wire your soul and haunt you for a good long while. Pure brilliance. Wow." —Richard Van Camp is the author of  The Lesser Blessed  and  Moccasin Square Gardens

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Just as the logging truck rounded the bend, Eddie and Lewis took off running. They made it all the way across and up the bank to the fence before the truck even made it onto the bridge. The driver gave a blast of his air horn and the support timbers creaked when he crossed the bridge. The logs sticking out the back of the load wobbled like spaghetti.

They lingered to watch the cars go by. Eddie always found it hard to find anything fun to do after school. Plenty of jobs waited for him but nothing to hurry home for. He laughed when Lewis made faces at a staring woman. A Volkswagen bus filled with laughing girls and boys looked like they were having fun as they went speeding by.

The brothers stepped through a stretched square of page-wire and walked down the trail. When they topped the hill above Grandma’s, Eddie was the first one to spot the car parked at the door. Lewis ran on ahead but stopped at the door to wait. Eddie tried to remember if he’d ever seen the car before. It looked like the one he had seen in a Yakima street when his mother had punched the driver. Years ago—but the car still looked new with its shining paint and gleaming chrome.

They walked in to see a man sitting at the kitchen table. He had long sideburns and greased hair that drooped down over his forehead in an Elvis-style waterfall Eddie had seen in a magazine. The man stood and jammed his hands into his pockets. His white shirt with upturned collar was unbuttoned down below his chest and tucked into blue jeans, and each of his brown shoes had a coin tucked into a strip of leather across the instep.

Grace came out of her bedroom. “It’s about time, you guys. I told you before to get right back here as soon as you get off that bus.”

She rubbed the back of her left hand with her fingers and nodded to the man beside her. “Anyway, this is your dad. This is Jimmy.”Eddie wasn’t sure he heard correctly.

“I said, this is your dad.”

—from All the Quiet Places

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