Rolling Home: A Cross Canada Railroad Memoir non-fiction memoir , written by Canadian writer Tom Allen , first published in October 2001 by Penguin Books . In the book, the author chronicles his travels across Canada on a train. Allen includes his interviews with passengers, engineers, cooks, and porters. Rolling Home has been called an "evocative cross-country tour of Canada by train," by Staebler award administrator Kathryn Wardropper.[2] [3]
Awards and honours
Rolling Home received the 2002 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction ".[2]
Winners of the Edna Staebler Award
1990s
Susan Mayse , Ginger Marie Wadden , Nitassinan Liza Potvin , White Lies (for my mother) Elizabeth Hay , The Only Snow in Havana Linda Johns , Sharing a Robin's Life Denise Chong , The Concubine's Children George G. Blackburn , The Guns of Normandy Anne Mullens , Timely Death Charlotte Gray , Mrs. King Michael Poole , Romancing Mary Jane 2000s
Wayson Choy , Paper Shadows Taras Grescoe , Sacré Blues Tom Allen , Rolling Home Alison Watt , The Last Island Andrea Curtis , Into the Blue Anne Coleman , I'll Tell You a Secret Francis Chalifour , After Linden MacIntyre , Causeway Bruce Serafin , Stardust Russell Wangersky , Burning Down the House 2010s
John Leigh Walters , A Very Capable Life Helen Waldstein Wilkes , Letters from the Lost Joshua Knelman , Hot Art Carol Shaben , Into the Abyss Arno Kopecky , The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014)Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats (2015)
Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club (2016)
Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo (2017)
Pauline Dakin , Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018)Kate Harris , Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019)
