7/2/2023 0 Comments Tell by Frances Itani![]() I laugh out loud and with delight when I read her novels. Her work is ribboned with wit, compassion, humour. Gardam, because there is breath and life in every word, in every sentence she writes. Two writers immediately come to mind: Jane Gardam and Seamus Heaney. Whose sentences are your favourite, and why? I wanted the challenge of intertwining all of these threads (loss, music, trauma) thematically. (My own great-great aunt and uncle, I learned – entirely by accident – once lived in the real tower apartment of the Post Office building, which still stands on the main street of the town.) Lastly, I introduced music: choral singing and a musician from wartorn Europe. I became interested in the fictional couple who lived in the tower apartment of the small town of Deseronto, Ont. I knew, too, that I wasn't entirely finished with minor characters from my earlier novel, Deafening, who had stories of their own to tell. ![]()
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