Aga Maksimowska

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Aga Maksimowska is the author of the 2013 Toronto Book Awards shortlisted novel Giant. She emigrated from Poland in 1988. She studied Journalism at Ryerson University and Education at the University of Toronto. In 2010, she completed a Master’s of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. Aga lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter, where she is teaching high-school English and working on her second novel.

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IN ADDITION TO being a giant nerd now, I am also on the year book committee. Actually, I am fifty percent of the year book committee; my new friend Jenny is the other. The job requires taking pictures of school events and pasting them onto big layout sheets, which I am oddly good at. I write some of the text for the soon-to-be-published hardback book, and use gold cursive on the cover, like the bo Read more of this blog post »
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Published on September 20, 2013 11:28 Tags: aga-maksimowska, giant, immigration, poland, soviet-block, toronto-book-awards
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Giant

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“She left our Gdańsk-Morena apartment with same haste as Tata, gone in a mad dash. She must have prepared for it , trained hard and practised. Everything that fast is slow in planning. An earthquake that takes seconds to wreck everything is a result of billions of years of slipping and shoving of tectonic plates. Those plates have no choice but to live side by side, often on top of one another. They hate this setup. They push each other around, siblings vying for the top bunk, to the point of eruption, ruin and exhaustion. After the quake: calm. A sad empty calm, with too much time to think...”
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