Michael Christie’s powerful debut collection is inspired by his experiences working with people on the DTES
The Beggar’s Garden, Michael Christie’s debut collection of nine linked stories, is dazzling, writes reviewer Candace Fertile in The Quill and Quire.
“Drawing on his experience working in a homeless shelter in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Christie explores the intense humanity of people living on the margins of society. His characters include addicts, homeless people, hospital patients, and those who interact with the city’s outcasts.”
The Beggar’s Garden won the City of Vancouver Book Award in October 2011, went on to be long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and is nominated for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Award.
We speak with Michael Christie about his book, and the experiences that led to it.
