Annie Bloom's Books

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Young, naive, and inadequately trained, urban health care/social worker Heather Rose flirts with the pilot as she wings her way north in a bush plane, to land in an isolated and remote northern/Native community, carrying her wholesome food guides, plans for fitness classes and community social activities with her.

Nine months later Heather Rose is "bushed"--utterly disillusioned by the growing horror of her new-found realization that what her culture has to offer this community amounts to less than nothing: total dependency. She returns, compelled, like Marlowe in "Heart of Darkness," to tell her story. "Occupying" her missing supervisor's empty office she illustrates her monologue of despair on a blackboard to an absent colonial authority for which the audience stands in as its silent and complicit witness.