Catherine Bush's Blog
August 4, 2020
Book Buying in a Pandemic
It's a strange time to be buying books when it's hard to walk into a bookstore and pick up a copy of a book that piques your interest, riffle through the pages, and read the cover flaps. I know I miss doing that! So in that spirit I thought I'd share as a sneak preview a few of the good words that will appear on Blaze Island's cover and that might be harder for you to see in advance.
Blaze Island is a beautiful, far-seeing, and fiercely intelligent novel about the most critical question of our time––the weather systems that threaten to collapse us both from outside and from within. — Claudia Dey, author of Heartbreaker and Stunt
Bush's prose is a lightning storm in the dark of climate crisis, gothic, forceful and beautifully intimate. Here is the majesty and awe of unleashed nature and we are caught in the grip. Swept away. This novel is sublime. — Lisa Moore, author of Caught and February
Riveting and morally complex, Blaze Island is a beautiful, kaleidoscopic work that offers a resounding reply to the question of how literature might wrestle with the deepest threat facing the planet, anthropogenic climate change. — Kyo Maclear, author of Birds, Art, Life
Climate change is both an external and internal phenomenon in Catherine Bush's brilliant new novel, Blaze Island. … A tale of greed, hope, and love, it is a beautifully written and challenging novel by one of Canada's best writers. — Michael Redhill, Giller-Prize-winning author of Bellevue Square
Blaze Island is a beautiful, far-seeing, and fiercely intelligent novel about the most critical question of our time––the weather systems that threaten to collapse us both from outside and from within. — Claudia Dey, author of Heartbreaker and Stunt
Bush's prose is a lightning storm in the dark of climate crisis, gothic, forceful and beautifully intimate. Here is the majesty and awe of unleashed nature and we are caught in the grip. Swept away. This novel is sublime. — Lisa Moore, author of Caught and February
Riveting and morally complex, Blaze Island is a beautiful, kaleidoscopic work that offers a resounding reply to the question of how literature might wrestle with the deepest threat facing the planet, anthropogenic climate change. — Kyo Maclear, author of Birds, Art, Life
Climate change is both an external and internal phenomenon in Catherine Bush's brilliant new novel, Blaze Island. … A tale of greed, hope, and love, it is a beautifully written and challenging novel by one of Canada's best writers. — Michael Redhill, Giller-Prize-winning author of Bellevue Square
