Lauren B. Davis
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Location: Princeton, New Jersey
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Lauren B. Davis's new novel, OUR DAILY BREAD will be published by Wordcraft in September, 2011. She is also the authos of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, The Radiant City, (HarperCollins Canada 2005) a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize; The Stubborn Season (Harper Collins Canada, 2002), chosen for the Robert Adams Lecture Series; as well as two collections of cr… Read moreLauren B. Davis's new novel, OUR DAILY BREAD will be published by Wordcraft in September, 2011. She is also the authos of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, The Radiant City, (HarperCollins Canada 2005) a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize; The Stubborn Season (Harper Collins Canada, 2002), chosen for the Robert Adams Lecture Series; as well as two collections of critically acclaimed short stories, An Unrehearsed Desire (Exile Editions 2008), and Rat Medicine & Other Unlikely Curatives (Mosaic Press, 2000). Her short fiction has also been nominated for the CBC Literary Awards. Lauren, who was born in Montreal, lived in France for over a decade and now resides in Princeton, where she leads monthly writing workshops.
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This is a BRILLIANT book. How to describe it? Part poetry, party novel, part meditation. Dany Laferriere uses language and form in a way that is unique and perfect for this work. The novel/memoir/poem begins with the author-narrator learning of the death of his estranged father in New York. Windsor Laferriere left Haiti in the 1960s, fleeing the persecution of Papa Doc Duvalier's brutal regime, just as Dany would later leave it in 1976, fleeing the similarly savage repression of Baby Doc Duvalier. Fathers and sons. Legacies of loss. We follow the narrator to NYC, where he looks upon the body of the father he has not seen in fifty years, in his coffin. He begins to touch… Read more
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Frightening, complex and character-driven, this is a horror story for thinking people. What begins as a traditional narrative, albeit one with multiple points of view, some of which dead-end with shocking swiftness takes on a more sinister sheen with every chapter. And those dead-ends (you'll pardon the pun)successfully keep the reader guessing as to what might happen next, since everything is apparently possible, unlike many novels in this genre where it's obvious from the first page who will survive and who won't. Then, too, Rowe's research is enviable -- legend, myth and history combine to lend the novel an unmistakable air of authenticity. His use of the Ojibwe Wendigo myth… Read more
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I loved this book. The story of a Joyce Sparks, 86, now in a nursing home, looking back on her life and on the difficult relationship with her son, John. Joyce was never quite able to come to terms with her son's sexual orientation and the silence surrounding this pink elephant in the room is Joyce's tragic flaw. I was reminded of "Olive Kitteridge" in the way Francis so perfectly creates Joyce's interior world, as well as the crusty, crotchety, ultimately fragile personality of the protagonist. If being gay these days is difficult for young people (and it undoubtedly is, alas), the era in which John grew up was even harsher. Francis also paints a perfect picture of time, and… Read more
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