Author Sonja Boon latest Coast Lines book club selection
When Dr. Sonja Boon arrived in Newfoundland and Labrador in 2008, she was struck by the province’s deep-rooted identity.
While Dr. Boon was born in Britain, her mother originally hails from Suriname and her father from the Netherlands.
Looking out at the Atlantic Ocean from Middle Cove Beach one day, she was compelled to take a deep dive into her own lineage.
Her journey of personal discovery is chronicled in intimate, conversational style in What the Oceans Remember, the Coast Lines book club’s current selection. Dr. Boon, who is also a world-class flutist and professor of gender studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Memorial, says her editor and online writing group gave her the courage to write something so personal to her.
Read more in The Gazette.