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The Book of Negroes
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Joy Kogawa
“Elsewhere, people like Aunt Emily clack away at their typewriters, spreading words like buckshot, aiming at the shadow in the sky.”
Joy Kogawa, Obasan

“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
John Powell SJ

James Hannaham
“A story might help you get through your life, he said, but it doesn't literally keep you alive -- if anything, most often people who have power turn their story into a brick wall keeping out somebody else's truth, so that they can continue the life they believe themselves to be leading, trying somehow to preserve the idea that they're good people in their small lives, despite their involvement, however indirect, with bigger evils.”
James Hannaham, Delicious Foods

Margaret Laurence
“Well, you're young. You know a whole lot you won't know later on." ~ Christie Logan”
Margaret Laurence, The Diviners

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”
Anonymous

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A Group to talk about books written by Canadian authors - beware - your TBR pile will grow dramatically!
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