My Father is a Twiner

About the Book

This is a book of “short stories” that tell of life in a land of awesome beauty, of life lived, often exposed, along the east and north coastline of Labrador in Canada. These “stories” are all true and reflect the lives of the people who live here and a northern nurse who grew to love them, and their land, a young man from the “mainland” of central Canada who served them, and found his home among them.

These are also “stories” of a group of people who leave the comforts and glaring lights of the city and move to this land and here in its quietness, and exposure, discover peace and healing in their disquieted lives, and learn from the Newfoundlanders and Inuit values that impact all of them.

Within the context of these “stories” Reg has woven brief commentaries of several significant social upheavals that have impacted Newfoundlanders along these coasts, and of their own faith, courage and initiatives whereby they have risen above these intrusive and traumatic events spun by an uncaring and manipulative government bureaucracy.

About the Author

Reg Faust was born in Toronto, lived in Newfoundland with his family and worked as a northern registered nurse and social worker along the north shores. He has earned and received degrees from a number of universities, Sir Wilfred Laurier in Waterloo, Memorial in St. John’s, and Queen’s in Kingston, Ontario. These “stories” bring together those years and experiences when he was employed by the International Grenfell Association of Northern Newfoundland and Labrador.

As retirement projects, Reg has been the author of three previously published books, including a reflective study of Psalm 119, another on the Passover. He is presently co-author with his wife, Mary Jane of the book While You Were Away, a true story of trauma and recovery, that tells her account of the parental abduction of children, namely her own, children who were suddenly taken and withheld as captives “somewhere” in the southern United States by their own father for eight and a half years. For this account Reg has given relevant clinical and research insights into this pervasive and destructive yet ongoing adversity.