FOOD STUDIES GENERAL INTEREST

The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City

Robert Lemon. Foreword by Jeffrey M. Pilcher Drawing on interviews with taco truck workers, Robert Lemon illuminates new truths about foodways and community in the Bay Area, Sacramento, and Columbus, Ohio. Pub May 2019. 6 x 9 in. 240 pp. Univ. of Illinois Press 978-0-252-08423-2 P/$24.95

Most of What Follows is True: Places Imagined and Real

Michael Crummey Drawing on his own experience appropriating historical characters to fictional ends, Michael Crummey brings forward important questions about how writers use history and real-life figures to animate fictional stories. Is there a limit to the liberties a writer can take? Is there a point at which a fictionalized history becomes a false history? What responsibilities do writers have to their readers, and to the historical and cultural materials they exploit as sources? Crummey offers thoughtful, witty views on the deep and timely conversation around appropriation. Pub Feb. 2019. 5.25 x 9 in. 72 pp. Univ. of Alberta Press 978-1-77212-457-6 P/$11.99

Tiny Lights for Travellers

Naomi K. Lewis When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved Opa’s escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi K. Lewis decides to retrace her grandfather’s journey to freedom. While travelling alone from Amsterdam to Lyon, she discovers family secrets and her own narrative as a second-generation Jewish Canadian. With vulnerability, humour, and wisdom, Lewis’s memoir asks tough questions about her identity as a secular Jew, the accuracy of family stories, and the impact of the Holocaust on subsequent generations. Pub May 2019. 6 x 9 in. 296 pp. Univ. of Alberta Press 978-1-77212-448-4 P/$26.99

What You Take with You: Wildfire, Family and the Road Home

Therese Greenwood Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was devastated by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly escaping a fire that would rage for weeks, burn more than 85,000 hectares and force 80,000 people to flee. This skillfully told first–person account is more than a disaster narrative: her portrayal of how people behave in an emergency and how a community comes together is uplifting. Pub Mar. 2019. 6 x 9 in. 286 pp. Univ. of Alberta Press 978-1-77212-449-1 P/$24.99