Recounting the story of her life, Oei plunges us into the colorful world of nineteenth-century Edo, in which courtesans rub shoulders with poets, warriors consort with actors, and the arts flourish in an unprecedented moment of creative upheaval. Oei...
When the folk rock group Hearts of Flame broke up Ruby and the other members gravitate from Alberta to Toronto. The booming city at the end of the eighties offers all these outsiders a way to thrive. Then Ruby disappears. The police fail to turn up a...
Half for you and half for me is the first line in a short nursery rhyme that continues with Between us two shall goodwill be. The phrase is a fitting title for this book, which was inspired by the experience of shared reading, and whose audience is c...
"Everyone lives on Brunswick Avenue sooner or later." So begins Fables of Brunswick Avenue , Katherine Govier's first collection of short stories, which found her an audience that has expanded with each subsequent book. The 16 stories in this coll...