Manitoba. The book deals with a First Nations community that had one of the highest rates of tuberculosis infection in Canada, a result of poverty and sub-standard housing. The book includes interviews with about 60 front-line tuberculosis researchers and medical practitioners. The book was commissioned by the Manitoban chapter of the Canadian Lung Association for their tuberculosis treatment program. Detachment:An Adoption Memoir Awards and nominations 2003: Ending With Music is nominated for the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book 2003: The John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer 2006: Winner of a Margaret McWilliams Award from the Manitoba Historical Society for Memoir of a Living Disease 2009: Winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry for Fear Not 2009: Nominated for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award for Fear Not. 2009: Nominated for the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. References External links Official Website Living people 1962 births Canadian male poets American emigrants to Canada Writers from Bloomington, Indiana American expatriates in Nigeria American expatriates in Jamaica University of Manitoba alumni University of Winnipeg faculty Canadian male non-fiction writers Mennonite writers Mennonite poets Writers from Winnipeg American Mennonites Canadian Mennonites 21st-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers