Nowick Gray: 7 books

Friday Night Jam is an anecdotal, instructional how-to (and sometimes painful how-not-to) guide to group improvisation, based on the firsthand learning experiences of author and African drummer Nowick Gray in a weekly open jam in rural British Columbia, in the early 1990s. This chronicle conveys the...

My Country, like Walden, presents a neglected world that appears as through a forgotten memory. The work is a triptych, painting three panels of approach to life in the context of nature. The narrative essays in “Forest Walks and Other Exercises” track forest paths that skirt our tribal past while...

These 18 stories address the mystery of love from unusual angles, leaving no darkness unexposed. The identity shifts born of intimate attraction find shape in arresting narrative transformations. The first section, “Strange Love,” includes narratives with offbeat structure or voice, twisted characters...

A wilderness cabin becomes a dream-box of catastrophe and survival, in this true adventure with a paranormal twist. Will, a treeplanter, hikes with a companion to meet his wife and 3-year-old daughter in BC’s remote Jumbo Pass. A fierce mountain storm pushes Will to the brink of deadly choices,...

PsyBot is every programmer's nightmare: the bug that shows up on the user side of the interface. In this psychological thriller set in the cyberpunk era, Joe Norton’s all-too-ordinary life in Vancouver is coming apart at the seams. Given instructions to kill and a baffling menu of choices, Norton...

Northern Quebec, 1964: Mountie Jack McLain, baffled by a series of unsolved murders, knows the latest case will make or break his career. Eighteen-year-old Nilliq, chafing under the sullen power of her father in a remote hunting camp, risks flight with a headstrong shaman bent on a mission of his...

Edging Spain, southern France, and Portugal, a midlife couple tracks landscapes between bliss and burnout, art and love. After the rigors of wild camping, a Formentera cottage offers cozy comfort, honeymoon bliss, creative freedom. Noella sketches in watercolor, while Wilson skirts the boundaries...