Tranquility Lost : The Occupation of Tranquille and Battle for Community Care in BC Product Form:Paperback / softback Hsu's second book is a

Hsu's second book is a deeply intelligent and felt contribution

The characters - such as Dider - are indelible

McNeilly gives us the lives of the jive cats and jellyroll mamas and Dixieland trumpeters who gave jazz meaning by making sure it'd swing

3 stars out of 4

Winner First Nation Communities READ Award (2017)

Tranquility Lost : The Occupation of Tranquille and Battle for Community Care in BC Product Form:Paperback / softback Hsu's second book is aDescription In 1983, the BC provincial government announced plans to close Tranquille, a large residential institution for persons with intellectual disabilities located outside Kamloops. The announcement was made with no community placement plans for residents. The nearly six hundred employees of Tranquille, members of the BC Government Employees Union and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses, were alarmed by the lack of any Ministry of Human Resources