BONE BIRD Darlene Barry Quaife Winnipeg, Turnstone Press, 1989. 234pp, paper, $10.95 ISBN 0-88801-133-4. CIP Grades 10 and up/Ages 15 and up Reviewed by Mollie Hooper. Volume 17 Number 5 1989 September Although this is her first novel, Darlene Quaife has provided a book that is timely, sensitive, and imaginative, but still makes the reader face the harsh realities of today. Set in the rain-drenched, dying logging town of Tanis Bay on Vancouver Island, it is the story of a young woman, Aislinn Cleary, struggling to find hope for the future while burdened with the responsibility of a dying mother and a family store. Through Quaife's culturally diverse characters and their conversation, her settings, and her mythology we are led toward her main theme—that our society should begin to face reality about the environment by adopting certain native Indian attitudes. The Bone Bird, whom we meet through Aislinn's grandmother, a medicine woman, is a symbol of either death or new courage and wisdom for those who survive its challenge. As we read this far-seeing novel, we can see that instead of staking out our territories, we should be sharing our cultures. Quaife accomplishes this with vivid detail, pithy dialogue, and a deft blending of realism and imagination. This attractively bound, easy-to-read book is a must for school and public libraries. Mollie Hooper, Qualicum Beach, B.C.