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Laurie D. Graham

Laurie D. Graham is the author of Fast Commute and other books. She is also the ­publisher of Brick magazine.

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Unsettling

The book we didn’t read growing up April 2026
I got only as far as the First World War, a third of the way in. I had been reading slowly, meticulously, dog-earing, underlining, committing facts to memory. Every detail, every story, every summation in Helen Potrebenko’s No Streets of Gold: A Social History of Ukrainians in Alberta, published in 1977, was calling to a family history left deliberately unuttered by my maternal…