The conflicting pulls of private dreams and family expectations lie at the heart of these two debut novels by young Canadian women.
Beth Levy, the young adult narrator of Sidura Ludwig’s Holding My Breath, begins her story with her own parents’ wedding in Winnipeg in 1947. In the moments after the ceremony, as the…
Nancy Richler
Nancy Richler is the author of Your Mouth Is Lovely (HarperCollins, 2002). She lives in Vancouver, where she is at work on a new novel.