the breakfast cereal of his youth

Karen Connelly is the author of nine books, including the recent memoir Burmese Lessons: A Love Story (Random House, 2009), which was nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 2010. Her novel of prison life in Burma, The Lizard Cage (Random House, 2005), won Britain’s Orange Broadband New Writers Prize in 2007. Her forthcoming book is a collection of poetry, Come Cold River, which includes “the breakfast cereal of his youth” and many others set in Calgary and Vancouver.