Trailblazers 2021: Rae Spoon’s Green Glass Ghosts reflects Vancouver through lens of young …

That’s when the musician and writer learned that the final medical scan in Victoria had revealed that more surgery was necessary.

The narrator is a queer, guitar-wielding musician who arrives in Vancouver in 2000 at the age of 19.

“It’s a bit like my first book , which is very close to autobiographical,” Spoon conceded.

It’s astonishing to consider how far the trailblazing Spoon has come from being a poor couch-surfing, sometimes homeless trans youth living on the East Side.

“I knew what I wanted, but I didn’t know how to be an adult,” Spoon quipped of their early years.

“I remember the two of us showing up at a really far-up northern Norwegian town,” Spoon recalled with a laugh.

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