Book description
In the late 1980s of London, Ontario-a time in Canada when the recession lay like a lead weight on the shoulders of young people, leaving the future bleak-an eighteen-year-old girl is working for the summer at a corn canning factory. Her story is told through a series of masterfully-sculpted linked…
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Mockler is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). This small volume (poetry? prose? sui generis?) knocked me out the first time I read it in 2011, and its brevity has led to me re-reading it several times since. About an 18-year-old girl working in a canning factory in London, Ontario—wise, funny, moving, honest... it’s got it all. I’ve purchased several copies over the years and use them as gifts to fellow readers. Highly recommended.
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