The Clarion
Alice Meems
, Melissa Poremba
, Eva Esmann
, Aleksandra Sobczak
, Mary Therrien
, Shannon Leclerc
, Agnes Marshall
, Patricia Johnson
, Barry Kazimer
, Patricia Sampson
, cassandra schiemann
, Janice Hutchinson
, Anne Baldo
, Sandra Furlotte
, Sarah Schwartz
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Marilyn Stanley
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Lauren Seal
, Margaret McKay
, Jude Castillo
, Tyra Antle
, Noelle Walsh
, Sandra Perry
, Deana Bueley
, Linda Leitch
, Hoda Montazeri
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, Cathalynn Labonte-Smith
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Alison Jacques
, Rose Ghaedi
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Susan Jang
, Christopher Evans
, Ariane Béland
, Teree Hokanson
, Andrea Gillespie
, Hailey Slaviero
, Deb Philippon
, Lara Costa
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Janai Phillips
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Rhona Brinkman
, Elaine Baptie
, Chris Carvalho
, Dani Kat
, Claudie Léveillé
, Connie Bennett
, Claire Gear
, Trish Bowering
, P. Thompson
, Heather Rose
, Diane Normandin
, Lynn Bechtel
, Janet Miller
, Karen Kendrick
, Christine Lion
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Benita Hartwell
, Shonna Froebel
, Lindsay Hobbs
, Susan Terendy
, Carl Scott
, Mary Campbell
, Rachel Edmonds
, Paula Adam
, Nancy Daoust
, Derek Davidson
, Janice Cournoyer
, Huguette Lemieux
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Heather Sibley
, Catherine Westerberg
, Mary Lester
, Denise Duvall
, Nancy Reid
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Kim Cappellina
, Ken Gilmour
, Sara Conway
, Kym Marsh
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Mary Danieli
, Lisa Mallia
, Deanna Carney
, Angela Mitchell
, Debra Fisher
, norma haill
, Dorianne Emmerton
, Joe Mitchell
, Francine Eichenauer
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“We all lined up for our whipping by the shouting beauty and tender traumas of life. All of us so sensitive, and now this beautiful girl, with soft brown hair that was shot with gold in the sun. Another one of us starting to stumble.”
Peter plays the trumpet and works in a kitchen; Stasi tries to climb the corporate ladder and lands in therapy. These sensitive siblings struggle to find their place in the world, seeking intimacy and belonging—or trying to escape it.
A promising audition, a lost promotion, intriguing strangers and a silent lover—in rich, sensual scenes and moody brilliance, The Clarion explores rituals of connection and belonging, themes of intimacy and performance, and how far we wander to find, or lose, our sense of self.
Following the literary realist traditions of Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro, Dunic’s debut novel captures the vague if hopeful melancholy of any generation that believes it was never “called” to something great.
