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“Ma’am, you sound like a very reasonable person. Can I advise you to just move?”
Carissa Halton and her young family move into a neighbourhood with a tough reputation. As they make their home in one of the oldest parts of the city, she reflects on the revitalization that is slowly changing the view from her little yellow house. While others worry about the area’s bad reputation, she heads out to meet her neighbours, and through them discovers the innate beauty of her community. Halton introduces us to a cast of diverse characters in her Alberta Avenue neighbourhood—including cat rescuers, tragic teens, art evangelists, and crime fighters—and invites us to consider the social and economic forces that shape and reshape our cities.
“Ma’am, you sound like a very reasonable person. Can I advise you to just move?”
Carissa Halton and her young family move into a neighbourhood with a tough reputation. As they make their home in one of the oldest parts of the city, she reflects on the revitalization that is slowly changing the view from her little yellow house. While others worry about the area’s bad reputation, she heads out to meet her neighbours, and through them discovers the innate beauty of her community. Halton introduces us to a cast of diverse characters in her Alberta Avenue neighbourhood—including cat rescuers, tragic teens, art evangelists, and crime fighters—and invites us to consider the social and economic forces that shape and reshape our cities.
1 | Avoid This Place at Night
2 | Better to Call 311
3 | Drug Houses Make Bad Neighbours
4 | Unlikely Space Flight
5 | Hell Is Other People
6 | May the Punishment Fit the Crime
7 | The Case of the Missing Hundred Bucks
8 | Friend Stalking
9 | Billian’s Safe House
10 | This Neighbourhood Does Not Tolerate Crappy Infill
11 | Smells Like a Deal
12 | Bug Economics
13 | Food Politics
14 | Local Sex Economics
15 | Rub and Tug in the City
16 | Penis Slash and Other Lessons
17 | Aboriginal Dance
18 | We Are All in This Together
19 | A Salmon’s in the Koi Pond
20 | Taking Over the Streets
21 | Predators Invade
22 | Privacy’s Found in the Basement
23 | Canvassing 101
24 | The Pendulum Swings
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Sources
Award-winning writer Carissa Halton lives with her family in an urban neighbourhood in Edmonton. People often ask, “Why do you live there?” This book is her answer.
"Halton clearly delights in interacting with people from all walks
of life; her interest and empathy sparkle throughout. Her tone is
factual, nonjudgmental, and often wryly funny. Little Yellow
House is a balanced presentation of a diverse community in
transition, complete with faults and growing pains."
*Foreword Review*
"It’s books like this that remind us all… that community is more
than about special events that happen once a year. It’s about
connecting to people often and throughout the year. Doing so can
and does result in some wonderful experiences." [Full article at
https://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/community-in-a-little-yellow-book-20181010]
*St. Albert Gazette*
# 1 on Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers list, October 19, 2018
"It's an illuminating and hopeful book that asks readers to think
again about what makes places liveable, and also provides a
wonderful glimpse of Jane Jacobs' proverbial sidewalk ballet."
*49th Shelf*
"Great cities and neighbourhoods are containers for stories, just
like this book is, and every one of these is delightfully readable
and well-written right down to the sentence level. And Halton is
not afraid of tension, of ambiguity and uncertainty, something
living in the city teaches you, and so each of these stories is
suspended in a careful place, not neatly packaged or simply
concluded. Which gives their culmination the effect of a walk
through a city street, of glimpses, moments, and changing scenes—a
most satisfying and delightful excursion."
*Kerry Clare, author of Mitzi Bytes*
"This book is an excellent resource for communities wanting to
create change. It can also be a starting point for discussion with
students ... to focus on identifying Who are the vulnerable? Who
gets to decide that they’re vulnerable? and What community-based
solutions honour lifestyle choices? Little Yellow House shows
readers there are ways of working and living together that really
do respect diversity. I loved this book."
*Alberta Views Magazine*
"In these stark and endearing personal essays, the author
celebrates her life and lives fearlessly and fully with three
children and a husband, despite a dystopian backdrop. Halton writes
with humour, empathy, and spiritual maturity, and she doesn't judge
the inner city world outside her yellow house."
*Prairie Books Now*
# 2 on Calgary Herald's Non-Fiction Bestsellers list.
*Calgary Herald*
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