ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brian Thomas Isaac was born in 1950 on the Okanagan Indian Reserve near Vernon, BC. After completing grade eight, he found work in the oil fields and in construction, and eventually retired as a bricklayer. At the age of fifty, without any formal training, he began to write and seventeen years later he completed his first novel, All the Quiet Places. His debut is a national bestseller, won a 2022 Indigenous Voices Award, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads. Brian and his wife live in West Kelowna where he enjoys time with his three grandchildren and is completing his third novel. His second novel, Bones of a Giant will be released by Penguin Random House in the Spring of 2025.
PHOTO GALLERY
Although Brian’s novels about the Toma family are fiction they are set in the same region and era in which Brian grew up. Below are some photos of the Salmon Valley region and of Brian during his early years.
