Here are some thoughts on being a mother myself that I wrote for the blog at http://houseofanansi.com in honour of Mother’s Day–and the one year anniversary of the publication of What Remains.
Listen to me read from my book (spoiler: there is some singing!) in the new audio version, now available at Audible books. Here is the link:
https://www.audible.ca/pd/Biographies-Memoirs/What-Remains-Audiobook/B079NK7FHX
Totally thrilled and most delighted to have What Remains make the CBC’s hot list for Best Non-fiction of 2017!
http://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-nonfiction-of-2017-1.4453296
Not only am I honoured to be in the fine literary company of David Sedaris and Masha Gessen on Heather Mallick’s hotlist of non-fiction for 2017, but also beyond thrilled to have been described as the little girl in a Velazquez painting!
Read it here:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2017/12/13/the-best-non-fiction-of-a-grim-2017.html
Check out my recent interview with TVO’s lovely Nam Kiwanuka: http://tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/the-art-of-being-captivating
Honoured to be part of the @ourcanada150 summer reading list!
Beyond thrilled to have What Remains make the cut on the CBC Books summer reading list!! http://http://fw.to/0w1EzBW
A lot of readers have asked me why we didn’t include family photos in What Remains other than the one image on the cover. Truthfully my publisher and I did originally consider it, but since the book isn’t really a biography or family history but more of a literary memoir, we ultimately decided against it. The other issue for me was that I didn’t want to end using images in the book that weren’t truly stellar.
This was until I had the opportunity to collaborate with the extremely gifted photographer and filmmaker Katherine Knight. After reading the book, Katherine came up with her own short list …
Spotted at Type books in Toronto’s Forest Hill village–just in time for the big day!
Here’s a taste of photographer and documentary filmmaker’s beautiful photographs of some of the starring objects from What Remains. On May 10th, Knight and I will offer a response to each other’s work, as we talk objects and their role in memory at the Textile museum.