Recently Released
 |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Recently Caught
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Social Links
Bookish Quotes
"My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy."
Strange Heaven
|
Strange Heaven
Buy from one of these Booksellers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
|
|
|
|
|
|
As Strange Heaven begins, we meet seventeen year old Bridget Murphy in the psychiatric ward of a childrens' hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she's been placed following the birth of a child she's given up for adoption. Her doctors have decided that she's "apathetic", though she really just seems to be seeking refuge from her colourful -- if a little strange and degraded -- home in Cape Breton. Bridget is both wise beyond her years and wise beyond the limitations of her home town, and her trenchant observations about the people around her are part of what make Strange Heaven so memorable. ("Everyone else she knew ... spoke briefly, as briefly as possible, trying to make it seem as though they hadn't really said anything at all and you were the one making unfounded inferences".)At the risk of making too obvious a comparison, Strange Heaven reminded me most powerfully of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, since Bridget has in common with Esther Greenwood her cutting wit, the force of her intellect and her resistance to being sucked into a flawed set of societal norms. Read reviews of Strange Heaven in January Magazine here and Quill and Quire here. Vancouver-based Lynn Coady also wrote Saints of Big Harbour and Play the Monster Blind, a collection of short stories. She maintains an official website. |
|
|
|
|
Released 7 yrs ago (10/6/2004 UTC) at Shanghai Restaurant in Ottawa, Ontario Canada WILD RELEASE NOTES:
|
|
|
|
