Why I Write
It only sounds like a question.
Let’s assume for a moment that there is a choice: to write; or,
not to write.
I write to express my self.
In 1992, in the Cariboo-Chilcotin, I thought I had lost a Sabre
pocketknife that I had found more than a decade before on the banks of the North
Platte in Wyoming.
The sense of loss seemed overwhelming and disproportionate to
all of the other loss I had experienced in life. I sat down at the keyboard and
wrote, “The Lost Knife”, my best story, in a white rush. If I had not, what
then?
About The Second Wedding of Doctor Geneva Song
Doctor Geneva Song's Chinese wedding ceremony is traditional, but she marries outside of her race and culture. This ancient ritual sets in motion a fateful journey from the light to the dark for Geneva, her Spirit Sister, and the men who love them.
A beautiful family physician, Geneva Song is pious, religious, highly educated, independent, dangerous, unforgiving, sexually expressive, adulterous, and strong-willed.
Sister Deri, Geneva's Spirit Sister, her living incarnation, starts life as a country bumpkin in the remote countryside of Northeast China, becomes a deeply committed and ordained Buddhist nun, a sexual concubine, and the most powerful woman of finance in Canada.
Along the way, the man who loved Geneva first is murdered, and her fist husband is betrayed. Discover why one critic says that Doctor Geneva Song is destined become one of fiction's legendary women.
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About the Author
A two-term City Councillor in Victoria, Robert N. Friedland currently practices human rights and administrative law in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is widely published in commentator on Canadian, international and British Columbia political scene.
