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The First Man in My Life

In 22 original narratives, some of Canada’s most acclaimed writers share stories, memories, insights, and revelations—from the comic to the tragic, and every shading in between—about the first man in their lives. My contribution is an essay entitled The Loafers.

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Contributors:
Katherine Ashenburg, Anita Rau Badami, Christie Blatchford, Mary Anne Brinckman, Nancy Dorrance, Jane Finlay-Young, Camilla Gibb, Catherine Gildiner, Rebecca Godfrey, Rachel Manley, Sandra Martin, Lisa Moore, Sarah Murdoch, Marina Nemat, P.K. Page, Emma Richler, Eden Robinson, Rebecca Snow, Tina Srebotnjak, Susan Swan, Emily Urquhart, and Pamela Wallin
 

Seduction

Seduction is an 500-page novel that has been described by Random House as a "...quirky tour de force which whisks the reader through the intellectual history of the 19th century with fascinating Freudian and Darwinian detail."

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Hear me read from Seduction at the Globe and Mail site.

Too Close to the Falls

Too Close to the Falls is a memoir of my life from four to fourteen in Lewiston, New York, small town America in the 1950's. Medically diagnosed as "hyper" (I was a pioneer in the field), the medical specialists decided I needed a full time job at age of four. The memoir is from the point of view of the youngest working girl.

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