Jody Mitic
Jody Mitic defended M.G. Vassanji's novel Nostalgia on Canada Reads 2017.
Jody Mitic defended Nostalgia by M.G. Vassanji on Canada Reads 2017. The book was eliminated on Day Two of the debates.
A 20-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, Jody Mitic served as a master corporal and sniper team leader on three active tours of duty over the course of seven years. One day in 2007, while on a mission in a small Afghan village, he stepped on a landmine and lost both of his legs below the knees. Within three years he was not only walking again — he was running. By 2013, Mitic was starring in the blockbuster reality TV show The Amazing Race Canada. In 2014 he reinvented himself again, winning a seat as a city councillor for Ottawa. Mitic tells his story in the 2015 memoir Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper.
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Jody Mitic, a veteran who survived stepping on a landmine, explains why he connected with M.G. Vassanji's novel Nostalgia. 1:02