Memoir & Biography

Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-life Journey into Wild Land

It’s a wonder that Starting Out in the Afternoon, a set of diary entries about working through a mid-life crisis in the north country, ever got published. Creative writing instructors the world over rightfully warn ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Lambsquarters: Scenes from a Handmade Life

By Barbara McLean

Twenty-six years ago, Barbara McLean, the young wife of a country doctor-to-be, set out with her husband for a hardscrabble, decrepit farmstead in Grey County, Ontario. The couple were complete beginners to farming, and while ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Invisible Shadows: A Black Woman’s Life in Nova Scotia

By Verna Thomas

Invisible Shadows takes readers on an intimate walk through one of Canada’s oldest and largest black communities: Preston, Nova Scotia. Author Verna Thomas, born in 1935, mother of seven, and long active within the Baptist ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

No Foreign Bones in China: Memoirs of Imperialism and Its Ending

By Peter Stursberg

Effective tour guides to that other country – the past – generally share two attributes: top-notch research skills and imagination. Longtime journalist Peter Stursberg’s strong investigative skills are evident throughout his account of his ancestor’s ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

By Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary

Pioneering science fiction author and political activist Judith Merril was not one to mince words or follow convention, so it’s no surprise that she bluntly states in her introduction to Better to Have Loved that ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Seldom

By Dawn Rae Downton

Anybody expecting the quaint, feel-good Newfoundland of E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is bound for a surprise in Dawn Rae Downton’s memoir of early 20th-century Newfoundland. Life is a whole lot tougher in this ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Diary Between Friends

By Government of Canada, ed.

The idea of creating a scrapbook of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may seem like a morbid idea at first, but with more media coverage than almost any event in world history, the urge to ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat

By Keath Fraser

Keath Fraser’s voice was a choppy, strangulated, and unintelligible mess. Told for years that his mysterious ailment was psychological, he searched in vain for some inner failing that could explain his affliction. The Vancouver novelist ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging

By Warren Cariou

In this good-natured, easygoing memoir, thirtysomething writer Warren Cariou looks back on his rural boyhood in northern Saskatchewan and attempts to capture the ineffable magic of a childhood home. Cariou’s account is leavened by charming ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

When Things Get Back to Normal

By M.T. Dohaney

M.T. Dohaney was calmly watching television when her husband went out to play hockey with friends. The next time she saw him, she was a widow. His sudden on-ice heart attack left Dohaney reeling, both ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-life Journey into Wild Land

Lambsquarters: Scenes from a Handmade Life

Invisible Shadows: A Black Woman’s Life in Nova Scotia

No Foreign Bones in China: Memoirs of Imperialism and Its Ending

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

Seldom

A Diary Between Friends

The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat

Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging

When Things Get Back to Normal

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