Judith Pond’s The Signs of No centres on a professor who spends her time thinking about her daughter, Stella. Rose lives with an unresolved grief: Stella vanished one day, at age eighteen, without a word. Now a cryptic postcard yields hope that she’s still alive, leaving Rose desperate to know where she has gone…
Michelle Sinclair
Michelle Sinclair wrote the novel Almost Visible. She lives in Ottawa.
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Michelle Sinclair
Perhaps no words suffice to capture the formidable anguish and sorrow following the death of a child. With her remarkable fourth novel, Wait Softly Brother, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer attempts to fill that void. On the surface, the book concerns a middle-aged author who writes a story about her stillborn brother, Wulf, hoping to “enliven him — as if words can do the alchemy of bringing him back to life.” But there’s an autobiographical…