"It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us... discover our soul." (Desmond Tutu) Doubleday Canada - Random House, 2013 If you take Desmond Tutu's statement as truth, Jowita Bydlowska's Drunk Mom is arguably the ultimate discovery. Her to-the-bare-walls description of her alcoholism displays every weakness. It
House of Anansi, 2013 Astoria Imprint The clear skies and no wind? That's not often true, actually, in Théodora Armstrong's debut collection. The characters herein are faced with stormy conditions and life is in flux. But 100% visibility? That's true: her vision is impeccable, her scope expansive but her
This the last of four stories published at the end of Dear Life under Finale, four works that are "not quite stories" but, rather, works "autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact. I believe they are the first and last -- and the closest -- things I
Among the "first and last -- and the closest -- things I have to say about my own life", "Voices" is one of four stories in Finale, published at the end of Dear Life as "not quite stories", part of a "separate unit, one that is autobiographical in feeling, though not,
As the second of four stories in Finale, published at the end of Dear Life as "not quite stories", "Night" is part of a "separate unit, one that is autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact". Random House, 2012 "I believe they are the first
