Musgrave writes of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through her real-life adventures with her outlaw husband, Stephen Reid, and her teenage girls, taking us from the Queen Charlotte Islands to Panama City.
Authors, Canadian (English)
- Author:Musgrave, SusanSummary:
- Author:Alfano, MichelleSummary:
No parent is prepared for the moment when her daughter comes out to her--not as a lesbian, but as a person whose physical gender is out-of-keeping with his emotional and psychological gender-identity. In Michelle Alfano's intimate...
- Author:Rule, JaneSummary:
Jane Rule tells the story of her first twenty-one years of life. The manuscript was discovered in her papers in 2008, a year after her death.
- Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:
One Native Life is Richard Wagamese’s look back at the long road he traveled in reclaiming his identity. It's about the things he's learned as a human being, a man, and an Ojibway. Whether he's writing about playing baseball,...
- Author:Foran, CharlesSummary:
Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. Foran describes Mordecai's life as young bohemian,...
- Author:Cariou, WarrenSummary:
- Author:Mowat, FarleySummary:
In 1947, Farley Mowat traveled to the Canadian arctic, that vast part of Canada which most Canadians never come to know. Twenty years later, Mowat returned for the most extensive northern trip of his life. In this book, Mowat chronicles...
- Author:Newman, Peter CharlesSummary:
Peter C. Newman's autobiography, from his youth as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; to the Jewish kid in short pants being machine-gunned by Nazi fighter planes on the beach at Biarritz, en route to the last ship to escape...
- Author:Kogawa, JoySummary:
"Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it...
- Author:Kogawa, JoySummary:
"Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan...
- Author:King, JamesSummary:
- Author:Woodcock, GeorgeSummary:
Beyond the Blue Mountains details Woodcock’s life in the British Columbia bush, his close and longstanding relationship with the Doukhobors, his battles with US immigration officials. We learn of the founding of the influential Canadian...
- Author:Loyie, Oskiniko LarrySummary:
Tells the story of Larry Loyie, a Cree Indian in Canada, who was sent to a government school and later became a writer.
- Author:Sonik, MadelineSummary:
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"A Queer Love Story presents the first fifteen years of letters between Jane Rule--novelist and the first widely recognized "public lesbian" in North America--and Rick Bébout, journalist and editor with the Toronto-based Body Politic,...
- Author:Savage, CandaceSummary: