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Piece by Piece
“Our artifacts might be evidence we existed. But the stories behind those artifacts are evidence we lived” (p. 228). Kim Danielson, the author of Piece by Piece, has created a memoir containing emotion, tension, research, and most importantly, the process of making a loss more valuable than the […]
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One Wish: A Tale of Reckoning After 9-11
Sandra is called to her hometown of Cleveland to “babysit” her sister-in-law Janine while Sandra’s brother Greg, an investigative journalist, goes on an overseas assignment. Janine suffers from a life-threatening heart condition and is on a heart-lung transplant list. It’s important that a trusted person approves of surgery […]
Love and Other Incurable Ailments
Serenity Tomczyk, the first-person narrator of Love and Other Incurable Ailments, is obsessive to the point of hypochondria, annoying yet shy, well-meaning, funny, sometimes unlikable, and one of the most original characters I’ve ever run into in a novel. As she tries to “organize” her neighbor’s messy kitchen […]
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An Interview with Mariam Pirbhai
The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, Pirbhai is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she teaches and specializes in postcolonial studies and creative writing. […]
