Barbara Stewart is extraordinary, not because of the heights she’s reached, but because she is an ordinary woman who hit rock bottom and survived to tell the tale. Join us as she reads from Campie, a beautifully written memoir that is an inspiring, realistic journey of recovery.
Barbara was living an average life as a single mother supporting her family. She shopped organic and owned her house. A few missteps later, she was bankrupt and alone, a progression of events that’s revealed in snippets and letters as Campie unfolds.
To find a way to eat and put a roof over her head, she took a job in Alberta’s oil fields.
Campie is a snapshot of life in an oil-rig camp: an isolated portable trailer located off a frozen, unmarked road. The camp attendant, or campie, is the lowliest position in camp—and when the work is done, there’s nowhere to go.
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