Death scenes; unexpected violence; near-catastrophes; sibling friendships and their evolutions; addictions; our human ties to different, sometimes mirroring landscapes
by : Marjorie Simmins
Memoir
Three intertwined perspectives, and photos, of one of Canada’s largest disasters
Some tales have tragic endings. Some do have happy ones. Many have a kind of non-ending, because the struggle continues, the journey is ongoing.
Superb anecdotes from the book revolve around the compassion of cantankerous Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard, the arrogance of American sports journalist Howard Cosell, and the seemingly limitless generosity of Wayne Gretzky.
Pull up a chair and sit for awhile.
An autofiction novel is part hospital chronicle, part will – imagined as a series of documents distributed to friends on USB drives after her death. Gendreau’s style is magic realism of that which is anything but magical: Dollarama, hospital corridors, bland mushed-up food.
Pitts writes openly and candidly of his work, how the role of police officer changed over his three decades years of service and how no amount of training can prepare you for the realities of the trauma faced on the job.
Ahead of Her Time: Select Writings of Dora Russell, edited by her daughter, Elizabeth Miller, is a captivating mix of politics, humour and reflections on family life.
Angel Lady of the Maritimes
by Karen Forrest
$19.95, paperback, 176 pp.
Pottersfield Press, 2015
