Book Review: “Coming Ashore”, Literary Review of Canada
If you’re a subscriber to the Literary Review of Canada, you can read the rest of Grace Westcott’s review here: Literary Review of Canada
Book Review: “Coming Ashore”, The Waterloo Region Record
The Waterloo Region Record, Nov. 2014 by Chuck Erion (also published on Goodreads) My relationship with Catherine Gildiner began in November, 1999. Her childhood memoir, “Too Close to the Falls,” had just arrived at our bookstore and I grabbed it...
Coming Ashore: Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly Review: Readers who met Cathy McClure Gildiner in her memoirs Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls will be thrilled to have another opportunity to follow her life in the third and final installment. She’s a gifted writer...
After The Falls: Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly Review: At age 12, Gildiner and her family moved from their Niagara Falls home to a Buffalo suburb, leaving behind a family business, smalltown contentment, and the rebellious childhood chronicled in her first memoir, Too Close...
Too Close to the Falls: Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly Review: Now a successful clinical psychologist with a monthly advice column in the popular Canadian magazine Chatelaine, Gildiner tells of her childhood in 1950s Lewiston, N.Y., a small town near Niagara Falls, in this hilarious...
Book Review: “After the Falls”, Artvoice
—katherine o’day November 3, 2010 When Cathy Gildiner walked into the offices of Artvoice on a sunny day last summer, I immediately thought she was the most elegant person I’d ever seen come through that door (and Artvoice has been host to...
Book Club: “After the Falls” Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions 1. At certain points in the memoir (p. 30, 166), Cathy’s childhood confidante, Roy, appears to her to offer guidance and a sympathetic ear. How do you interpret these moments—as a literary device or as a spiritual visitation?...
Book Talk: “After the Falls” Author Interview
Author Interview Q. Do you think your father’s illness brought you and your mother closer together, or did it actually allow you to separate yourself from your family? My mother and I were always close. I think that my father’s illness made us...
Awards: “Too Close to the Falls”
Too Close to the Falls has received the following awards/success… Was on the extended New York Times best seller list Holds Canadian record for The Globe and Mail best seller’s list — 104 weeks On the Boston Globe‘s best...