Wetion: Historical Fiction Based on Fact

A new Canadian audiobook is laced with Canadiana, world history, original music and allegories. Over two decades, James Allan Krause, a former university professor and professional writer produced Wetion (2nd edn). The author describes the historical fiction based on fact as  “timely and worldly.”

Addy is the main character and wants to understand the family’s genealogy. He asks, what influenced ancestors to migrate to the flat prairies of Saskatchewan? And before that, Scotland, England and France? Where did all those cultural peculiarities originate? Seeking answers, he conducts an experiment.

DNA provides the map. Research, imagination and good old fashioned storytelling combine to explain his ancestors’ migration out-of-Africa. From the time of our common ancestor 2,000 generations ago to the present era, the stories are told.

Fact is, there’s part of us all in Addy’s tale. Combining 19 chapters of interconnected short stories with ten scene play, each with its own original song, listeners experience the power of words making history in the drama, tragedies, romance, lessons, lore and more that unfold.

This novel provides a multimedia experience, the first of a trilogy and only available in audiobook format. Experimental fiction it is, laced with homage to the bards.

Wetion is distributed by around 50 well-known booksellers internationally.

The author respectfully acknowledges Wetion was written and produced on the traditional unceded territory of the K’ómoks First Nation, in the beautiful Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, Canada.