Je me souvien: Memory and Mourning in Montreal
Ann Charney (Author)
Distantly Related to Freud. Cormorant Books
Mary Soderstrom (Author)
The Violets of Usambara. Cormorant Books
Ami Sands Brodoff (Author)
The White Space Between. Second Story Press
Reviewed by Jessica Langston
Set in Montreal, the past looms large in the background of these stories just like the mountain. At base, all three novels are about the value of remembering, but they are also about the importance of living despite, and in honour of, those memories.
At times derivative and certainly reminiscent of Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Charney's novel is a künstlerroman focused on the development of a female artist. The story begins with Ellen at eight years o [...]
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