Over the last few years, Iain Reid has become known as a memoirist of the kind the CBC likes to draw on for a weekend afternoon: self-deprecating and mildly anxious, comic and unthreatening, he is like a millennial Stuart McLean, sharing the stories of his occasionally bumpy but ultimately heartwarming ride toward maturity. His first…
Damian Tarnopolsky
Damian Tarnopolsky is the author of the Goya’s Dog, a novel.
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The Happy Burden of Family
A quirky Saskatchewan couple grow old together in Emma Hooper’s first novel July–August 2015
A friend of mine—one of the most sensitive, intelligent, well-read people I know—once told me that he had never been able to get past the first sentence of One Hundred Years of Solitude. It begins with Colonel Aureliano Buendía facing a firing squad, remembering the distant morning when his father took him to discover…