Mercedes Eng's first book is a risky and profoundly unsettling work of "auto-cartography," documenting the struggles and politics of everyday life in Vancouver, foregrounding the literal and figurative violence behind the euphemism "missing women," resistance to the Olympic-Industrial Complex, and other legacies of colonialism that continue to haunt the fragile "City of Glass."
Mercenary English seizes "the politics of language" and foregrounds the literal and figurative violence behind the euphemism "missing women."