As Luba, a child in a remote Doukhobor community located in southern British Columbia, hides in a root cellar, she is flooded with memories of the harrowing events that led to her captivity. “The Invisible Child,” a short story by Denise Evdokimoff.
“On lonely nights, I called my mother. She never asked what I was doing on the nights I didn’t call her, just when I was coming home. And she never called me, just reminded me how long it had been since we spoke.” —Mothers and daughters, past and present are sorted through In the short story “The Princess of Stubble Fields,” by Kate Smith.
In which a university student from the burbs changes jobs in the heart of Montreal during the year of the Olympic Games.— “A Sound Education,” by E.R. Brown
First published May 4, 2018. The Two of Us by Kathy Page Windsor, Ontario: Biblioasis, 2016. $19.95 / 9781771960991 Reviewed by Paul Headrick Kathy Page’s fiction has often been the bridesmaid, not the bride. After she was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2014 for her story collection, Paradise & Elsewhere, Page was longlisted…
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