Book Review: Once You Break a Knuckle, by DW Wilson
256 pp; $32Reviewed by Steven W. Beattie
“Once you break a knuckle … you will break it again.” That’s what John Crease, an RCMP officer in Invermere, B.C., tells his son Will in the opening story of D.W. Wilson’s debut collection. (The assertion is repeated, mantra-like, in the closing story.) This is at once John’s personal philosophy and a statement of principle for Wilson’s book, which involves patterns of masculine violence and distemper that repeat themselves across a community and down through generations.
John Crease is a CFL — a constable for life — who has passed over promotion opportunities that would force him to relocate his family to remote places in the Yukon or some “backwater dump he’d have to get to by seaplane, where his son would turn into a user or a gang member and he’d probably end up dead.” John’s son, Will, the story’s narrator, has an adversarial relationship with his old man; they are constantly engaging in some kind of sparring match, be it verbal or physical. In the opening story, which takes place on the morning before John ships out to Kosovo, Will manipulates the schedule at a judo tournament so that he can fight the older man.
All this evident machismo is typical of the stories in Wilson’s collection, which are largely about listless young men (or disillusioned older men) in B.C.’s Kootenay Valley who spend their time brawling, drinking Kokanee beer, and generally getting into trouble. Also typical of the Creases — both père and fils —is a vulnerability that lies just beneath the surface of their tough exteriors.In "reception", a story later, focusing on return of John from Kosovo, after being shot in the chest, Will teases his father on the old man's refusal to participate in a toboggan, but the banter between them is cut short when Will realizes that Jean demurral is due to the severity of the injury he has suffered. None of this is verbalized, of course, with the exception of a reference to a confession made by watching John "later" for the months it took after shot before he was able to find the courage to try to breathe properly. But it is fully apparent when the older man wakes his son in the early hours of the morning to help him hang a heavy bag he is no longer strong enough to hoist on his own. Spying on his father working the bag, appearing winded but persisting regardless, Will thinks he understands “what it mean[s] to be the son of John Crease.
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