I (Athena)

I (Athena)

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Ashley Raskovsky
, Marilyn Stanley
, Noelle Walsh
, Paris Semansky
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Melanie Solar
, Hannah Ruby
, Dani Kat
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, Barry Kazimer
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, Patricia Johnson
, Deana Bueley
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, Agnes Marshall
, Sandra Furlotte
, Kim Cappellina
, KRISTINA WHITFORD
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, Debra Fisher
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, Melissa Kohlman
, Joe Mitchell
, Grace Novack
, Trish Bowering
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, Eve Hild
, Lois Coleman
, Crystal Inwood
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, Katie Jones
, Margaret McKay
, Katherine Koller
, Vicki Bedford
, Theresa Shea
, jane luce
, Heather O'Connor
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Rhona Brinkman
, Rhona Brinkman
, Chloe Moore
, Lauren Carter
, Heather Norris
, Mary Lester
, Margaret Anglin
, Randi Ann Doll
, Lesley Cameron
, Lynn Andrews
, Charles Leblanc
, Rosa Cross
, Barbara Nickerson
, Rodney Cross
, Ruth Walker
, Darlene Foster
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Janice Cournoyer
, Paula Adam
, tom stormonth
, Karen Nordrum
, Deb Philippon
, Suzanne Nesbitt
, Nora Gould
, Lynn Hallson
, Robert Hykawy
, Lisa Mallia
, Hoda Montazeri
, zelda dwyer
, Karen Kendrick
, Jane Graham
, Ellen Clarke
, Benita Hartwell
, Lauraine Twilley
, Pat Johnston
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Ken Gilmour
, Kailey Gallant
, Heather Sibley
, C. Ray
, Mary Danieli
, Andrea Pole
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, Soni Sharma

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20/03/2023

06/04/2023

Yes

Ken Gilmour
, Kim Cappellina
, zelda dwyer

When Athena was a young girl in the 60s, she lost her hearing to a childhood fever but was misdiagnosed as "profoundly retarded" and institutionalized for thirty years. Now she's out of the institution, awkward and bookish, and learning to integrate with mainstream society where nothing works quite like she thinks it should. Athena researches her past, trying to understand why she was institutionalized in the first place and why the people looking after her made such a huge mistake. At the same time, she tries to find a way to live with the man who was her lover in the institution, uncovering all sorts of surprises along the way.

Funny, tough, and serious-minded, Ruth DyckFehderau's I (Athena) recalls the work of Barbara Gowdy and Elizabeth Strout.