Author Description

It is a coming of age story in a school on the edge of Vancouver's notorious downtown eastside during expo 86, written in the most appropriate way possible to convey it. Its main perspective and theme is indigenous but it is very multicultural staying true to how it was in the community back then. It sheds light on love and hardships faced by students and the neighborhood, and is important to the history as not much is known today about the flourishing radiance of growing up in East Vancouver. It is a story of how children growing up in such environments can succeed and that there are people that genuinely care. The setting is in east Vancouver in and around the edges of the Grandview Woodlands neighborhood. It start just before expo 86, while the world is pouring into Vancouver many First Nations also join the wave to find a better life from elusive reservations that lacked proper plumbing and electricity. Among them is Gabriel and Rocky who attend Canada's poorest public school of that time, growing up in the poorest neighborhoods of the country and is arguably the most multicultural communities in Canada They have a taste for mischief, as young boys they typically befriend and rival each other often, they fall in love with girls, join martial arts, play sports and get involved with gang activity which almost lands them in jail, instead they're sent to an open custody youth camp for the under privileged. Their eyes and minds are opened wider and their lives are forever changed by their experiences there. And one receives an incredible gift that he can't seem to fathom no matter how much he thinks about it."