The Big Read: The heroes who said 'no'

18 March 2016 - 02:51
By Darrel Bristow-Bovey

When I was young Tyler de Klerk's dad lost his job. This wasn't unusual - in our neighbourhood plenty of dads had no jobs. Not having a job didn't seem terribly undesirable - it gave the dads more time to arrange rusting car parts around their front yards and wipe their hands on the front of their vests.

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