Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Marilyn Stanley
, Noelle Walsh
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Melissa Poremba
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Sharon Forzley
, Ariane Béland
, Janice Cournoyer
, Patricia McKeown
, Donna Gamache
, Robert Hykawy
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Margaret McKay
, M M English
, Sarah Schwartz
, C. Ray
, Jude Castillo
, P. Thompson
, Paula Ritchie
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Sara Conway
, Ken Gilmour
, Lynn Bechtel
, Kim Cappellina
, Benita Hartwell
, Joseph Chirayil
, Randi Ann Doll
, Sindi Nika
, Maureen Brownlee
, Karen Nordrum
, cassandra schiemann
, diana kirkwood
, Joe Mitchell
, Sandra Furlotte
, Mary Therrien
, Linda Leitch
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Amanda Schempp
, Deana Bueley
, Susan Jang
, Patricia Johnson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Andrea Pole
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Barry Kazimer
, Agnes Marshall
, Rhona Brinkman
, Lynn Andrews
, Alanna Virtue
, Allison Dube
, Elaine Baptie
, Claire Gear
, Melissa Singh
, Kartik Gupta
, Holly Elisabeth
, Jennifer Morse
, Joshua Lewis
, Stephen Pinder
, Darlene Jilks
, Prabh Toor
, Wendy Houlden
, Lisa Mallia
, Heather Belliveau
, Peter Halasz
, Joan Clare
, Huguette Lemieux
, Maria Mclean
, joy mills
, Jennifer Beyak
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Kym Marsh
, Laurie Burns
, Carl Scott
, Lisa Reynolds
, Brian Yee
, Barbara Leckie
, Debra Fisher
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Shannon Leclerc
, Dani Kat
, Tanis Anne
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Paula Adam
, Irenee R Anderson
, Janet Meisner
, Mary Lester
, Wanda Brine
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Sherry Heschuk
, Cheryl Johnson
Rose is divorced, fifty, and estranged from her daughter. At a student art opening on a rainy March evening she meets Morrison, a genial hoarder and womb-twin survivor, who leads us to Abbey, a dancer who is losing the chance to become a mother, who leads us to Iris, a bright ten-year-old doing her best to handle her family breaking apart.
When her daughter vanishes completely, Rose seeks out her old friend Mab, the cheerful keeper of little bad signs. Following her only clue, a postcard bearing just a signature and a photo of a pristine lake, Rose chases after her daughter and her past mistakes. A ghost on the shore of Maxhamish Lake may hold the key to the true mystery, one unknown even to Rose, buried deep in the heart.
The Signs of No is a story of guilt and grief, of finding one’s footing in middle life, and of discovery and reinvention. It traces the spiderweb cracks of invisible loss, common and uncommon, the losses that go without memorial or acknowledgment. It is a story about women, about motherhood, and the ways middle-aged women are underestimated, even by themselves.
