I found out yesterday that The Full Catastrophe won a Finalist medal in the USA Best Book Awards in the category of "Women's Issues." This is the second such award that The Full Catastrophe has won - the other was in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
There is some question as to whether book awards really mean anything - but if a jury of writers thinks that a book is worth reading in comparison to other books, then the award is meaningful. I am thrilled also that the category is Women's Issues as the whole issue of gender equality and women being treated with respect is front and centre at this time, perhaps partially in light of the recent election of someone in the States who has made bold public statements about women as objects, but also, here at home in Alberta, where female politicians are subject to harassment simply because they are women, where the wage gap between men and women is still too much and where women are murdered and injured by their partners.
If the awards The Full Catastrophe has received help in my quest to be another voice that says we need to address the issue of gender inequality in our country and that we need to uncover the effects of abuse and trauma in order to heal, then they are definitely valuable.
There is some question as to whether book awards really mean anything - but if a jury of writers thinks that a book is worth reading in comparison to other books, then the award is meaningful. I am thrilled also that the category is Women's Issues as the whole issue of gender equality and women being treated with respect is front and centre at this time, perhaps partially in light of the recent election of someone in the States who has made bold public statements about women as objects, but also, here at home in Alberta, where female politicians are subject to harassment simply because they are women, where the wage gap between men and women is still too much and where women are murdered and injured by their partners.
If the awards The Full Catastrophe has received help in my quest to be another voice that says we need to address the issue of gender inequality in our country and that we need to uncover the effects of abuse and trauma in order to heal, then they are definitely valuable.
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