How You Were Born
Sandra Furlotte
, Sindi Nika
, Agnes Marshall
, Barry Kazimer
, Dawn Macdonald
, Holly Elisabeth
, Jude Castillo
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Ariane Béland
, Sarah Schwartz
, Tatiana Robinson
, Alliah Belza
, Linda Leitch
, Marilyn Stanley
, Deb Philippon
, Patricia Johnson
, Emily Bickell
, Anna Krentz
, VJ Hatton
, Mary Therrien
, Shannon Leclerc
, Mary Lester
, cassandra schiemann
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Hoda Montazeri
, Tristan Tasch
, Noelle Walsh
, Lynn Andrews
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Claire Gear
, Sharon Forzley
, Jen Amos
, Mary Danieli
, Laura Patterson
, Kevin Smith
, Christopher Evans
, Shena Parsons
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Deana Bueley
, Anne Baldo
, Natasa Ilic
, Amanda Schempp
, Shelley Gibbs
, Devon Millard
, Karen Segal
, Andrea Pole
, Laurie Burns
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Nicole Haldoupis
, Tanya Blake
, Benita Hartwell
, Heather Belliveau
, Tema Frank
, Katherine Koller
, Sara Conway
, diana kirkwood
, Leslee Caulfield
, Kim Cappellina
, Sarah Beaudin
, Kate Kostandoff
, Jay Rawding
, Rosanna Crupi
, Rachel Lutz
, C. Ray
, M M English
, Paula Ritchie
, Derek Davidson
, jane luce
, BJ Underwood
, Elaine Baptie
, joy mills
, Randi Ann Doll
, Janet Meisner
, Janice Cournoyer
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Janette Galan
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Anne Range
, Kathleen Hutchison
, Charles Leblanc
, Paula Adam
, Joe Mitchell
, Joan Clare
, Robert Hykawy
, Lynn Bechtel
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Barbara Leckie
, Lisa Mallia
, Siobhan Monaghan
, Ingrid Loepp
, Karen Nordrum
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Ken Gilmour
, Carl Scott
, Katie Masterson-White
, Melissa Poremba
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Toni Mills
, Janet Miller
, Payton Phillips
, Hailey Slaviero
, Prabh Toor
, Sara Power
, Kym Marsh
, Diana Richardson
, Connie Sparrow
, Jen Smith
, Erica Atfield
, Rachel Edmonds
, Shonna Froebel
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Joshua Lewis
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Margaret McKay
, Denise Duvall
, Lori Watson
, Nicki D'Angelo
, Susan Jang
, Maureen Brownlee
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Amie Gaudet
, Cynthia Heinrichs
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This tenth-anniversary edition of Kate Cayley's award-winning collection includes three new stories.
A young mother intrudes into the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters fail despite their best intentions and continue on despite their failures.
The stories in How You Were Born, each more incisive and devastating than the last, examine the difficult business of love, loyalty, and memory. Sharing the bizarre and tragi-comic of life—whether in present-day Toronto or in small towns of the early 20th century—Cayley champions the importance of connections, even when missed or mislaid, and the possibility of redemption.
