“So, I followed her cue and became Guildenstern. I didn’t need to look at the lines to play the part. None of us did, except maybe Mom, who never learned the words ‘cause someone in the family had to be a spectator in the madness.” It’s fitting that I picked up Regina Porter’s The TravelersContinue reading “THE TRAVELERS – Regina Porter”
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PROBABLY RUBY – Lisa Bird-Wilson
“…like a salmon swimming upstream. In her blood to go there. An irresistible pull. Only she didn’t swim away in the first place. That’s why it was so hard to know the way back. She was a little salmon scooped up in a big net.” Lisa Bird-Wilson’s Probably Ruby (Coteau Books(Canada), 2020 & Hogarth (US)Continue reading “PROBABLY RUBY – Lisa Bird-Wilson”
AN ISLAND – Karen Jennings
A little more than a month before the Booker Prize 2022 longlist is announced, I finished the 2021 longlist. As several of the selections weren’t published in the States until this year, it took some time, but I did it. I ended with Karen Jennings’s An Island (Holland House Books 2020, Hogarth in the USContinue reading “AN ISLAND – Karen Jennings”
A Girl Named Tommi 