The Ghost of You
Andrea Pole
, Barry Kazimer
, Faye Lilley
, Mary Therrien
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Sarah Schwartz
, Linda Leitch
, Marilyn Stanley
, Natasa Ilic
, Jude Castillo
, Noelle Walsh
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Melissa Poremba
, Randi Ann Doll
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Shawna Moodie
, Tema Frank
, Kaye Senas
, Melissa Kohlman
, Russell Reitsema
, Elmira Olson
, Hoda Montazeri
, Joshua Lewis
, Deb Philippon
, Agnes Marshall
, Hailey Slaviero
, Thelma Ball
, Wanda Brine
, Teira Stauth
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Margaret McKay
, Karen Nordrum
, Bob Paterson-watt
, Susan Terendy
, Emily Zb
, Patricia McKeown
, Lynn Bechtel
, Carl Scott
, Prabh Toor
, Ellen Clarke
, Joe Mitchell
, jane luce
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Laura Peters
, Heather Belliveau
, Janet Miller
, Aingeal Stone
, Benita Hartwell
, Janice Cournoyer
, Sara Conway
, Andrea Gillespie
, Robert Hykawy
, Patricia Johnson
, Lynn Andrews
, Anne Range
, Kim Cappellina
, Ken Gilmour
, Ashlee Blais
, Carole Giangrande
, Christopher Evans
, Colleen Coco Collins
, Yolande Thivierge
, Debra Fisher
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Margarita Saona's sparse, clinically precise yet mysterious prose casts a spell upon her readers. Nothing says post-anthropocentric like Saona’s stories. Her characters, resisting gender and other labels inhabit cities that while existing in the real world, refuse to be pinned down on a map. In Saona’s stories, animals behave like humans, humans, like animals, or the elements, in a relentless phantasmagoria reminiscent of ancient mythology. This disembodiment is present in Saona’s narrative style, having herself hovered between life and death shortly before receiving a life-saving new heart. The English translation, The Ghost of You, originally titled in Spanish La ciudad donde no estás, gives these ghosts an English-speaking home, in the hopes they can remain in the memory of their readers the same way someone’s presence stills haunts a place.
