Publisher:
Fitzhenry & Whiteside: October 2003
A brilliant new novel, dealing with creativity and aging, women artists in history, women dealing with domesticity and the problems of being independent artists, sexuality, and the idea of belonging. Set in both Canada and England, this multifaceted story moves back and forth in time and geography. Permeated by the spirit of Emily Carr, the novel, in part, concerns Carr's time in an sanitarium, where she was treated for an illness that has many of the symptoms of what we might today call fibromyalgia. The parallel stories consist of three overlapping triangles. Kit, a marginally-successful act...
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