I Never Said That I Was Brave
I Never Said That I Was Brave
Debbie Rodgers
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Taya Young
, Barry Kazimer
, Olivier Guérin
, Janet Miller
, Teagan Sedberry
, cassandra schiemann
, Jude Castillo
, Marilyn Stanley
, Dot Mann
, Alanna Virtue
, Jane McRobb
, Agnes Marshall
, Mary Therrien
, Marissa Yip-Young
, jaynie jackson
, Joan Clare
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Brad MULLER
, Elle Kishia
, Trish Bowering
, Anita Janik-Jones
, Brittney Warren
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Sandra Furlotte
, Carol Saponja
, Ching Ching Wu
, Lesley Sturge
, Katie Macalister
, Natasha Andres
, Andrea Pole
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Patricia Johnson
, Holly Elisabeth
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joshua Lewis
, Nicole Maxwell
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Dorothy Wong
, Dorothy Wong
, Sara Hawkins
, Noelle Walsh
, Emily Steiner
, Mark Gorman
, Allison Dube
, Sharon Forzley
, Angela Mitchell
, zelda dwyer
, Cheryl Johnson
, Natasa Ilic
, Laurie Burns
, Davina Liew
, LISA NELSON
, Ashlee Blais
, Chris Lantz
, Denica StP
, Hilary Jenkins
, Kate Hudson
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Shannan Sword
, Kartik Gupta
, Christine Lion
, Anneka Chambers
, Roland Schigas
, Heather More
, Kym Marsh
, Nicholas Graham
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Diane McPherson
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Lisha Hassanali
, joy mills
, jane luce
, Sara Conway
, Mary Woods
, BARB WISEBERG
, Vanessa Seto
, Huguette Lemieux
, Meghan Barton
, Stephanie Trotter
, Diana Richardson
, Marjorie Roy
, Joe Titone
, Joanne Epp
, Julie Kaniak
, Brian Yee
, Marla Schecter Howard
, M. Ingibergsson
, C. Ray
, Paula Adam
, Shannon Lee
, Anne Range
, Sindi Nika
, Benita Hartwell
, Lindsey Andronak
, Andrea Gillespie
, Ellen Clarke
, Michelle Onyango
, Rodney Cross
, Kathy Durand
, jen Black
, Janet Meisner
, Karen LeBlanc
, diana kirkwood
, Jessica Gilbert
, Lisa Mallia
, Karyn Newton
, Amanda Clarke
, Kim Wiggins
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Wendy Vigh
, Ken Gilmour
, Paula Ritchie
, Louise Walsh
, Sarah McComb
, Helene Fuhr
, susan pratten
, Debra Fisher
, Dian Anderson
, Claire Gear
, Cherryl Koylass
, Kristen Nikola
, Rosa Cross
, Joseph Chirayil
, Paris Semansky
, Julie M.
, Melanie Solar
, Elaine Baptie
, Susan Jang
, Kristen Bach
, Hoda Montazeri
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Barbara Leckie
, Christopher Evans
, Madelyn Brittain
, Morgan Stewart
, Wendi Waage
, Sandra Lackie
, Faaria Samnani
, Russell Reitsema
, Joe Mitchell
, Insha Khan
, MJ Malleck
, Elmira Olson
, Kim Carswell
, Augustine Mudzudza
, Melissa Poremba
, Tanya Blake
, Chris Carvalho
, Sonia Navvuru
, Danielle Pigeau
, Hana Iudin
, Kim Cappellina
, Bianca Jeannotte
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Lynn Andrews
, Catherine Booker
, Taryn Hubbard
, Patricia Scott
, Laura Patterson
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Rachel Edmonds
, Randi Ann Doll
, Michelle Canfield
, Margaret McKay
, Lindsay Gloade-Raining Bird
, Lori Campbell
, Jeff Eaves
, Sonia Adams
, Emily Johansen
, Penelope Penner
, Lori Bardell
, Taylor MaGee
, Darlene Foster
, Tanis Anne
, Deana Bueley
, Jenn George
, Lynn Bechtel
, Pat Johnston
, Jacqueline Chenier
, Janice Cournoyer
, Michelle Arsenault
, P. Thompson
, Yutong Wu
, Catherine Lee
, Lynn Mullen
, Mary Dallimore
, Mary Montague
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A taut tale of female friendship and betrayal.
Set between the 1970s and 2010, I Never Said That I Was Brave examines the complicated relationship between two women as they navigate a culture vastly different from their parents’. Motivated by guilt and confusion, the unnamed narrator recounts the shifting dynamics of her lifelong friendship with Miriam, a charismatic astrophysicist who focuses on dark matter. As childhood immigrants to Canada from Uganda, the girls are able to assimilate (though not always easily). In adulthood, they chafe against the deeply held traditions and expectations of their South Asian community and their own internalized beliefs about women.
As the narrator follows her memories on their unpredictable and unreliable paths, the reader is taken along on a devastating journey, one which blurs distinctions between right and wrong, victim and manipulator, life and death.
