An Imaged Novel
By Wendy Bullen Stephenson
Several international students living in Vancouver for a year become infatuated with the city and bonded with each other while one falls in love with a Canadian. Written as a fictional diary, Vancouver Memories: My Year Abroad is a coming of age tale, a love story, a travelogue, and a photographic reminder of why Vancouver is such an easy city to become attached to. Erika is the self-assured, 23-year-old Japanese student who becomes obsessed with a mid-twenties Canadian despite the attention of a compatriot who is trying to win her affection. The novel describes the life-altering experiences of this tight-knit group of classmates while they are exposed to West Coast culture. The photographs of seasonal events in Vancouver and the places that students routinely visit during their stay in the city—from Victoria to the Rockies—form a backdrop to the story and provide additional insight into the lives of visiting students.
A segment of this novel was made available in serialized form on this website each month from April 2010 to May 2011. This site now carries the entire novel of over 650 pages. It consists of approximately 125 diary entries and about 375 photographs. The complete novel is free for viewing and appears without distracting advertising.
To read the novel, go to the Table of Contents page and click on the links.
Website vancouvermemories.ca: Copyright Wendy Bullen Stephenson, April 2010. All rights reserved.
ISBN 978-0-9866257-0-1
Update of this website November 11, 2011
