A widow at the age of 32, Kate leaves her backward hometown on Vancouver Island and moves to an even smaller island hoping to find solace. Here, she meets another woman, Ivy who regales Kate with wild stories of Cuba in 1926. Another woman, Kate's mother Nora provides backstory on mid-twentieth century island living. These are the main characters of Linda Quennec's new novel Fishing for Birds (Inanna 2019) $22.95 that navigates island life from the tropical South to the temperate Northwest Coast, across time and through the very different experiences of three women. Throughout, the novel examines the expectations people cling to and the unexpected things that show up and impact our lives. Quennec describes herself as an island dweller at heart. She is a PhD student in Depth Psychology with a MFA in creative writing from Naropa University, and is a graduate of The Writers' Studio at SFU and the Humber School of Writing. Her work has been published in Quills Canadian Poetry, 3Elements Review, Cirque, and Emerge. She lives in Vancouver.


BOOKS:

Fishing for Birds (Inanna 2019) $22.95 978-1-77133-613-0

[BCBW 2019]