E/view: Zombie Night in Canada: First Period
Local author Jamie Friesen brings the zombie craze--in all its gore and mayhem--to our own backyard. BY EMIL TIEDEMANN Jamie Friesen's 'Zombie Night in Canada.' I T was the basis of several cordial arguments between my buddy Colin and I: If a zombie apocalypse feasted on hometown Edmonton, where would we barricade ourselves? Colin was adamant about surviving the pandemic within the grounds of the Edmonton Institution, while I preferred the benefits and comforts of one West Edmonton Mall. An unlikely scenario, but morbidly fun to debate over beers with buddies. That's why I was excited to delve into Edmonton writer Jamie Friesen 's debut novel Zombie Night in Canada: First Period , a look into how various insipid characters cope when Edmonton--along with the rest of the world--is overtaken by the "infected." Friesen thoroughly explores the hypothetical behaviour of the military and police force in such a catastrophe, though he splits the novel i...