Growing up stories have always been a popular genre in Canadian literature, and now the canon is about to welcome a stellar new arrival in Mary Borsky, author of the newly published short story collection Influence of the Moon . Although fictional, the twelve surely crafted stories in Influence of the Moon resonate with the immediacy of memoir, so genuine are the emotions and the world they capture, so subtle the mood and the times they evoke. Irene Lychenko is a young Ukrainian-Canadian girl coming of age in the ...
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Growing up stories have always been a popular genre in Canadian literature, and now the canon is about to welcome a stellar new arrival in Mary Borsky, author of the newly published short story collection Influence of the Moon . Although fictional, the twelve surely crafted stories in Influence of the Moon resonate with the immediacy of memoir, so genuine are the emotions and the world they capture, so subtle the mood and the times they evoke. Irene Lychenko is a young Ukrainian-Canadian girl coming of age in the northern Alberta town of Salt Prairie. The stories chronicle her growing awareness of the rifts in her family and in her community as she struggles to find her own identity in a world whose smallness is at once comforting and stifling, familiar yet tinged with a strangeness that hints of another, larger world beyond.
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Add this copy of Influence of the Moon to cart. $13.00, like new condition, Sold by Samuel S Lin rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Etobicoke, ON, CANADA, published 1995 by Porcupine's Quill.
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Add this copy of Influence of the Moon to cart. $55.64, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Porcupine's Quill.
