Kalamalka Press launched My Hand's Tired & My Heart Aches, the first full-length book by former Vernon resident Jason Emde, on Thursday, August 4, 2005, at 7:00 p.m., at Gallery Vertigo, 3001 31st St., Vernon. Entrance by donation.

"Emde’s voice plays squarely out of that long, honourable and wonderfully unreliable line of lyrical, saxophone-like autobiographical fictional voices from Augustine, Rousseau and Dequincey to Woolf, Joyce, Celine, Miller, Burroughs, Kerouac, Edna O’Brien and Elizabeth Smart. And Emde is shamelessly exultant in being part of that tradition … he doesn’t stand back from it, but hauls it all forward, light and dark, into his own vision, his own times." - John Lent

Copies are available at the Administration Office of the Kalamalka Campus of Okanagan College, 7000 College Way, Vernon, BC., V1B 2N5.

Phone 250-545-7291