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Fiction Literary

Danceland Diary

by (author) dee Hobsbawn-Smith

Publisher
Radiant Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2022
Category
Literary, Psychological
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781989274828
    Publish Date
    Oct 2022
    List Price
    $22.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781989274842
    Publish Date
    Oct 2022
    List Price
    $25.00

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Description

Luka Dekker and her sister Connie are the inheritors of a secretive and disturbing family history going back three generations to the disappearance of their great-grandfather. Their troubled mother, Lark, also mysteriously disappeared; and their beloved grandmother, who raised the two girls, had a life haunted by a traumatic event that is only revealed after her death. The story unfolds against a backdrop of the drug-fueled Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and the horrific pig farm murders, the seductive beauty of rural Saskatchewan, and the glittering lights of a famous prairie dance hall. Luka’s quest for her mother, and for peace and love, is a disquieting, moving, and thoroughly engaging examination of intergenerational trauma and forgiveness.

About the author

dee Hobsbawn-Smith's award-winning poetry, essays, and short fiction has appeared in publications in Canada, the USA, Scotland and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in Writing andher MA in English Lit at the University of Saskatchewan. Her debut poetry collection, WildnessRushing In, published in 2014, was a finalist for Book of the Year and Best Poetry Collection at the Saskatchewan Book Awards. What Can't Be Undone: Stories was published in 2015. She's alocal foods advocate, active in Slow Food for more than twenty years, and has written a stack of books about food, including the award-winning Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet. Sheserved as the 35th Writer in Residence at Saskatoon Public Library in 2015. Bread & Water: Essays, published in 2021, won the Saskatchewan Book Awards' nonfiction prize. A new poetrycollection, Among the Untamed, is forthcoming next spring. dee lives on the remnants of her family's farm west of Saskatoon.

dee Hobsbawn-Smith's profile page

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