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Kerry Clare

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KERRY CLARE is the author of novels Asking for a Friend, Waiting for a Star to Fall and Mitzi Bytes, and editor of The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood. A National Magazine Award-nominated essayist, and editor of Canadian books website 49thShelf.com, she writes about books and reading at her longtime blog, Pickle Me This. She lives in Toronto with her family.



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Kerry Clare I'm currently at work reading the first draft of a novel that I completed last summer. And it's a joy to find...that I really like it. One of my favou…moreI'm currently at work reading the first draft of a novel that I completed last summer. And it's a joy to find...that I really like it. One of my favourite strands of Mitzi Bytes is the bit about female friendships, and I wanted to explore those themes more closely in my new project. It's the story of two friends who meet in their first year at university and sweeps through the next two decades of their lives, and shows the way those lives run parallel and come apart regarding experiences of motherhood and maternity. The "sweep" of it was inspired by Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies, which I loved so much. (less)
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When It Isn’t Easy

I’m writing a novel right now, and I’m having a hard time. When I’m writing first drafts, I’m usually firmly wedded to forward momentum, just get to the end already, but things have gone off the rails a bit where I’m at, 52 000 words. Or maybe I’m still on those rails but the rails aren’t properly fastened to any foundation, and the narrative is all over the place, and/or no place at once. The

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"Do you ever put off reading a book because you genuinely don’t want it to end? That was how I felt reading this book.

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"In many ways this novel was not what I thought it was going to be . . . I'm not sure where I got the idea of what I thought it was (some bit of marketing, probably, which made me think 'I want to read this' without even bothering to look at the back " Read more of this review »
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"✦ Rating: 3.75 ★

☾ Yes/No/Maybe? Yes- if you enjoy character driven stories about starting over and finding yourself again.
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“In politics, she’d discovered that so few systems worked—but libraries did. The world was not yet wholly bereft of things to believe in.”
Kerry Clare, Waiting for a Star to Fall

“And what is family — at its best — but
an assemblage of people with wounds they help each other to heal?”
Kerry Clare, The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood

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