DEBORAH CHANTSON ’05
In Past Perfect Vacation, an exhausted, pregnant, 40-year-old working mom of soon-to-be three kids magically time-slips into her 20-year-old goddess-like body and gets a chance to relive her university life doing all the things she can’t in the future and couldn’t in the past. As an added bonus for alumni readers, U of T features in the book! (Omnific Publishing)
GLORIA HILDEBRANDT ’79
The Gift of Land: Living With Nature is a memoir of growing up on a rural property, dealing with wild plants and animals, and enduring family conflicts. The land has been established as Hildebrandt + Davis Nature Park, protected in perpetuity as a nature reserve. (Niagara Escarpment Views)
SARAH RANA ’24
Hope Ablaze takes place in a reimagined post 9/11 America, about a Muslim girl named whose quiet life topples after her scathing spoken word about a politician goes viral, making her confront the choice between speaking up or maintaining peace in her Muslim community. (Wednesday Books)
SHANNON ROBINSON ’94
The Ill-Fitting Skin is layered with surreal story telling but remains an extraordinarily realistic read, in the sense that even the most solid realities of life-and death-tend to blur and shimmer at their raw edges. The talkative bird that nests in a woman’s womb is as real as the “previous tenant.” The love of a mother for her uncontrollable son is as real as the wildness that is in her, too. The women of The Ill-Fitting Skin are real women — who work and grieve and create and destroy, who love and do not love, whether at the roll of the dice or because “the pages are paths, and you will have to choose among them.” (Press 53)
CATHERINE TSALIKIS ’09
In Chrystia: From Peace River to Parliament Hill, Tsalikis traces Chrystia Freeland’s remarkable journey from the northwestern Alberta town of Peace River to Moscow, London, and New York, where she spent two decades as a journalist, to the halls of Parliament Hill as deputy prime minister and finance minister in Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. The defining moments and experiences that shaped Freeland’s particular worldview illuminate the answers to larger social questions: how to live a good, useful life; how to hold fast to guiding principles; how to break through glass ceilings. This is a unique behind-the-curtains look at Canadian politics through the story of a trailblazing woman. (House of Anansi Press) Watch Catherine Tsalikis’ interview about the book on The Agenda with Steve Paikin
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