Tsawwassen author Thancy Fat has penned a new novel that starts by looking back on how society has shifted from work for money to contemplative living and bartering.
It is highly relevant to current socio-economic trends: the so-called Great Resignation, quiet quitting, AI-driven job displacement, massive layoffs and mounting employer/employee tensions,” said Fat. “It emphasizes a positive sea change in morality and ethics over that half-century, by dint of collective, intense meditation. Its core events in the year 2072 occur in two places: one utopian and the other dystopian.”
The novel 2072 already is carried in paperback at Albany Books Games Toys in Tsawwassen and Langley. Ingram/Chapters advises that it will appear in their stores throughout Vancouver and satellite cities in around three weeks,” he said.
In his Montreal-based high school and college years, the author began a nascent - and still-growing - fascination with ethics and morality. He began questioning how much is intrinsic and how much is learned – and unlearned.
After completing McGill law school in the mid-1980s, this fascination led him to postpone a law career for two years in favour of living and working in Taiwan - to observe any core cultural differences in ethics or morality there versus home. He then went on to practice tax law in Vancouver for 30-plus years, where ethical issues figured highly.
He has lived in South Delta since 1986.
You can learn more about the book and the author at: www.thancyfat.com.