“‘Bear…I love you. Pull my head off,” (Engel 90). Lou works a quiet, easy life in the archives of the Historical Institute, but when her boss offers her the chance to catalogue the library of an eccentric nineteeth-century colonel in northern Ontario, she jumps at the chance. But when Lou gets there she is shocked to …
“You can be entranced by an idea…and at a certain point you can no longer see the edges of it…But at the same time, it’s important to be able to come out the other side, you have to be able to come up for air. Otherwise, you won’t survive,” (Kitamura 66). A successful actress meets a …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Would it be like that with her? When she died, would her loved ones be told to move on?…She wondered this for weeks. She wondered if this was why people worshipped God, why she herself was attracted to that devotion. God the eternal, …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “The world is unfair to women. That’s why women need other women to teach them how to survive,” (Choi). In 1924, Kim Na-Young lives a quiet life in the village of Daegeori where she cares for her sick mother and tends to her …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “The Collective can be a powerful force. Perhaps together you’ll make the word flesh. Tap the Wound and bring it to vivid life. Making something beautiful is, after all, the best revenge,” (Awad). Samantha Heather Mackey has just published her debut novel. Living …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “The land would always return to its feral character; the trick is to place your bets on when and how. But the bust is inevitable. As sure as the sun fades with the silvering of the day,” (Welsh 84). As the Klondike Gold Rush …
“Well, we are the stars…And the stars are us. Every atom in our bodies was once out there. Was once a part of them. To look at the night sky is to look at parts of who you once were, who you may one day be,” (Reid 90). Joan Goodwin lives a quiet life. She …
A son attends his biweekly therapy session, a family dinner is held, and a daughter visits her dying mother. Though these three scenarios seem unrelated, each bleeds into one another, exploring the cyclical nature of trauma in AfterLife Theatre’s newest show Visiting My Mother and Other Repetition Compulsions.
“My friends and I have tried cutting out sugar and just plain cutting, magnet stimulation, talking to empty chairs, herbal remedies, pulling out our hair on the bathroom floor, every therapy in the alphabet, and we still feel like we don’t deserve to live…We’re all just trying to make the best decisions we can, trying …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. Caitlin Galway’s A Song for Wildcats follows characters from postwar Australia, late 1960s France, the Troubles in Ireland, 1930s New York, and 1980s Nevada who are processing grief, trauma, love, and their place in the world after facing adversity. She’s a talent of a …
Sarah O'Connor 