Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister’s Life in the Canadian Bush

Novelist Mark Frutkin, who immigrated to Canada to protest and resist the U.S. military draft during the Vietnam War, looks back at the culture that compelled his move.

Mark Frutkin is the author of seven works of fiction, including Fabrizio’s Return, which won the Trillium Award in 2007. Earlier, his novel Atmospheres Apollinaire was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium, and the Ottawa Book Award. He has also published three volumes of poetry. Frutkin lives in Ottawa.