I Was a Teenage Katima-victim follows a motley crew of young Canadians as they work their way across the country in the early 1980s with the volunteer corps Katimavik. Meet Duncan, the world’s slowest human. Eric the Viking, a one-man crime wave. Lysiane of the moody midnight sighs. Sarah, green-haired vixen of the lowlands. And of course Will himself, who is back in his role as Canada’s favourite young curmudgeon. In its heyday, Katimavik was active in 1,400 communities, on work sites rang-ing from soup kitchens to outdoor conservation trails. The wage? A dollar a day and all the granola you could eat. As Ferguson tells it, Katimavik groups were rolling caravans of multicultural, bilingual chaos. In a word: Canadian. Coming of age north of the 49th parallel has never been more entertaining.