Canadian Book Review ~ Mothers of Invention by Ewan Whyte

Happy publication to writer and cultural critic Ewan Whyte and his book, Mothers of Invention: Essays on the Community of Jesus and Grenville Christian College, (Wolsak & Wynn).

In these meticulously documented personal essays Ewan Whyte examines the extraordinary and dark history of Grenville Christian College and of the Community of Jesus, the charismatic Massachusetts-based “church” with close financial and spiritual ties to Grenville. He shares his own experiences as a student in the infamous Brockville, Ontario area school—a school that closed in 2007 and in 2023, saw a sixteen-year class action lawsuit come to a close. It was at this institution that many of its former students – some of whom were drawn from the children of the province’s elite – claimed varying levels of shocking maltreatment at the hands of the school’s administration and staff, including sexual abuse, severe corporal punishment, constant verbal and emotional abuse, sexual harassment, scapegoating, shunning, sleep deprivation, forced manual labour and isolation.

Mothers of Invention is available wherever books are bought or borrowed.

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