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WORK TITLE: Flight
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WEBSITE: https://jaewaller.wordpress.com/
CITY: Melbourne
STATE: VIC
COUNTRY: Australia
NATIONALITY: Canadian
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LC control no.: no2018044553
LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/no2018044553
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670 __ |a Waller, Jae. Flight, 2018: |b title page (Jae Waller) dust jacket (grew up in a lumber town in northern British Columbia ; she has a joint B.F.A. in creative writing and fine art from the University of Northern British Columbia and Emily Carr University of Art + Design ; now living in Melbourne, Australia, she works as a novelist and freelance artist)
PERSONAL
Female.
EDUCATION:Emily Carr University of Art + Design, B.F.A. (fine art); University of Northern British Columbia, B.F.A. (creative writing).
ADDRESS
CAREER
Freelance artist and author. Exhibitions: “Kotodama,” UNBC Bear Lounge, Prince George, BC, 2011; “Ctrl-Z,” UNBC Rotunda Gallery, Prince George, BC, 2011; “YIMBY: Housing for Everyone,” ECUAD Library Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2012; “Migrations: BFA Alumni Exhibition,” UNBC Rotunda Gallery, Prince George, BC, 2016.
WRITINGS
Contributor to A Mixtape Blue. Also author of Ichiman Ko no Kotoba, 2011.
SIDELIGHTS
British Columbia native Jae Waller devotes her professional efforts to art and writing. She attended both the Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the University of Northern British Columbia following a stint in music. She has published her own books, including Ichiman Ko no Kotoba, and held numerous art exhibitions: one at the University of Northern British Columbia Bear Lounge, two at the Rotunda Gallery, and one at the Emily Carr University Library Gallery.
The Call of the Rift: Flight is another one of Waller’s books. It focuses on Kateiko, a teenage girl who has begun to chafe at life in her small village community. She has long grown frustrated with its traditions and its resulting refusal to work toward any form of progression. Kateiko’s only way out of her village is through marriage, as her village’s population has grown so scarce that the new adults don’t have much choice of who to marry within its confines. Eager to grasp this opportunity, Kateiko is left with no other choice but to strike out on her own; and so she does by leaving her village and starting a journey toward elsewhere, accompanied by a close friend of hers. In the process of leaving behind her village, she also seeks to rid herself of the troublesome dreams being sent to her from the residents of the Spirit World.
Kateiko’s first obstacle is the rain forest outside her village, which is filled with all sorts of perils. Kateiko is barely able to make it out of the forest alive. She ends up in the care of a carpenter named Tiernan, who seems to be hiding something from her. However, Kateiko soon finds herself in the midst of even more danger when a spirit by the name of Suriel suddenly launches an assault. Kateiko takes it upon herself to try to learn more about Suriel and why could be doing such a thing. At the same time, she must assist the residents of the area she has come to occupy in making it through Suriel’s onslaughts alive. In the process, Kateiko begins to learn more about herself as well. Voice of Youth Advocates reviewer Jonathan Ryder remarked that “this book is acceptable for high school collections with large numbers of high-level readers.” A contributor to Kirkus Reviews called The Call of the Rift “an intricately lush and well-crafted new fantasy that deserves (and demands) a sequel.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 2018, review of The Call of the Rift: Flight.
Voice of Youth Advocates, April, 2018, Jonathan Ryder, review of The Call of the Rift, p. 76.
ONLINE
Jae Waller website, https://jaewaller.wordpress.com (July 16, 2018), author profile.
Biography
Jae Waller was born and raised in a lumber town in northern British Columbia, Canada. She was involved in local punk music and didn’t plan to attend university. Inexplicably, she now has a BFA in creative writing and fine art from UNBC and Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
She also studied Japanese and French, and briefly attended UBC to study linguistics. Her life goal is to be quintilingual. Most interesting past job: streetside florist with a charity for homeless citizens in Vancouver.
Currently, she lives in Melbourne and works as a novelist and freelance artist.
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EXHIBITIONS
Migrations: BFA Alumni Exhibition
UNBC Rotunda Gallery, Prince George, BC – April 2016 to June 2016
YIMBY: Housing for Everyone
ECUAD Library Gallery, Vancouver, BC – April 2012
Ctrl-Z
UNBC Rotunda Gallery, Prince George, BC – April 2011
Kotodama (solo exhibit)
UNBC Bear Lounge, Prince George, BC – April 2011
PUBLICATIONS
The Call of the Rift: Flight. Toronto, ON: ECW Press, 2018.
Ichiman Ko no Kotoba. Prince George, BC: 2011. (limited run chapbook)
“Health and Beauty Tips.” A Mixtape Blue. Prince George, BC: UNBC General Arts Interest Association, 2008.
Print Marked Items
Waller, Jae. The Call of the Rift: Flight
Jonathan Ryder
Voice of Youth Advocates.
41.1 (Apr. 2018): p76.
COPYRIGHT 2018 E L Kurdyla Publishing LLC
http://www.voya.com
Full Text:
2Q * 3P * S * NA * A/YA
Waller, Jae. The Call of the Rift: Flight. ECW Press, April 2018. 360p. $16.95. 978-177041-354-2.
Seventeen-year-old Kateiko is trying to escape the confines of her tribe, a group that seems more dedicated to protecting the ghosts of the past
than dealing with the present. In an attempt to start her life anew, she runs away with her friend and makes the hazardous journey through the
rainforest. An unfortunate encounter with two local soldiers forces Kateiko to spend a winter with Tiernan, a mysterious carpenter whose past is
far more troubled than he lets on. While recovering from her wounds, she begins to uncover the mystery of Suriel, a long-dormant spirit who is
apparently starting a war on mortal inhabitants. Kateiko struggles to understand the mysterious visions that she has been having and decipher the
Suriel's motives. Will the inhabitants of her new land be able to survive the increasing onslaughts by the spirit? Only time will tell.
The setting is the familiar lost-in-the-mists-of-time land where so much fantasy takes place. The story itself is an epic tale familiar to the genre.
Unfortunately, the problem with the narrative is Kateiko herself, who does not have much of a personality beyond the ability to develop romantic
crushes on a significant portion of the named characters. Her actions and movements never feel like natural parts of her character but rather
highly convenient ways to transport readers into a position to view a different part of the rapidly unfolding war between the spiritual and material
worlds. The story deals with issues of romantic attraction, self-discovery, and the uncovering of mysteries. The ending makes it clear that the
book is intended to be the first in a series. While hardly a first choice, this book is acceptable for high school collections with large numbers of
high-level readers.--Jonathan Ryder.
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
Ryder, Jonathan. "Waller, Jae. The Call of the Rift: Flight." Voice of Youth Advocates, Apr. 2018, p. 76. General OneFile,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A536746214/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=09957b21. Accessed 27 June 2018.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A536746214
Waller, Jae: FLIGHT
Kirkus Reviews.
(Feb. 15, 2018):
COPYRIGHT 2018 Kirkus Media LLC
http://www.kirkusreviews.com/
Full Text:
Waller, Jae FLIGHT ECW Press (Young Adult Fiction) $16.95 4, 3 ISBN: 978-1-77041-354-2
In Waller's stunning debut, a young woman is forced to choose between love and duty.
Kateiko, tan-skinned with light-brown hair, is an antayul (water-caller) of the Rin-jouyen, the oldest of the Indigenous peoples of the Aikoto
Confederacy. Their small numbers mean her list of potential husbands is limited until she turns 18 and can marry outside of her jouyen. Hoping to
do just that--and to escape haunting visions of what Rin elders believe is the Aeldu-yan (spirit world)--she treks southward to the Iyo-jouyen. A
deadly encounter during her travels with soldiers of the itheran, or foreign settlers, leads her to Tiernan, a jinrayul (fire-caller) and ex-mercenary,
also tanned and brown-haired, who takes her into his home. When the Suriel--a not-so-dormant air spirit--suddenly attacks the colonists, war is
declared, more political schisms erupt, and Kateiko and Tiernan find themselves engulfed in chaos. Waller's worldbuilding is beautiful and lavish,
her alternate history rich and complex (thank saidu for the backmatter), and even her characters' profanities are colorful. Kateiko's relationships
with far older men are disconcerting (at 18 her virginity is lost in a consensual encounter with someone over twice her age) yet she remains in
control throughout. Readers will admire the fierce strength which drives her coming-of-age journey.
An intricately lush and well-crafted new fantasy that deserves (and demands) a sequel. (glossary, timeline, maps) (Fantasy. 15-adult)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"Waller, Jae: FLIGHT." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Feb. 2018. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A527248106/ITOF?
u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=a5437624. Accessed 27 June 2018.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A527248106