An excerpt from This Side of Sad (copyright (c) 2017, used by permission of Goose Lane Editions), Karen Smythe’s hotly anticipated first novel. Smythe was a fiction editor of the Pottersfield Portfolio and has published short stories with some of Canada’s best literary journals.
Home is both a memory and an elusive goal in these stories about moving and settling, trying to connect and missing connections
An important cautionary tale for young-adult readers
An excerpt from Genevieve Graham’s tale of love in the time of the Acadian Expulsion
She has long used the writing conventions of the genres she loves to explore greater possibilities for living
With profound insights on the importance of being yourself
Cammie Takes Flight vividly depicts life at a boarding school for the blind