Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Critics described the stories in Way Up, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwers first book of fiction, as some of the most impressive examples of new Canadian fiction in recent memory. Published in 2003, Way Up received a Danuta Gleed Award and was a finalist for the Relit Award. The Nettle Spinner, her first novel, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel award and was also named a best of 2005 by January magazine. Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is the former fiction editor of The Literary Review of Canada and has also worked as a tree-planter, a lumberjack, and a baker. Her reviews have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Toronto Star, and The National Post. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto and is the Magazine Editor for Bookninja.com.
All the Broken Things
A novel of exceptional heart and imagination about the ties that bind us to each other, broken and whole, from one of the most exciting voices in Canadian fiction.
September, 1983. Fourteen-year-old Bo, a boat person from Vietnam, lives in a small house in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto with his mother, Thao, and his four-year-old sis …
Perfecting
With blood on his hands, Curtis Woolf flees his home in New Mexico for Canada, where he starts a religious commune, the Family. There he heals others and preaches pacifism while enduring the torment of this own damaged soul. Then his lover, Martha, finds his gun and goes south to discover the truth, whatever that might be. Curtis sets out to bring …
The Nettle Spinner
In her early twenties, Alma met a tree-planter and fell in love not with the man but with his strangely romantic work. Now, after several seasons of planting trees out west, the tough-minded hero of Kathryn Kuitenbrouwers visceral first novel has come home to northern Ontario to help reforest the ravaged landscape with a gang of filthy ex-hipp …
Way Up
In the thirteen stories that comprise Way Up, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwers canvas stretches from downtown Toronto to isolated farms, from the Canadian Shield to Nova Scotia and Europe, and even into outer space. In The Last Magic Forest, she turns her Gothic imagination loose in the bush of Northern Ontario, where tree planters have developed a uni …
