Frog Moon combines oral tradition, myth, language, literature, legends, and classic tales to forge one woman's singular history. The contradiction between French and English, between the silent and the censoring world of the convent, the make-believe world of books and folk tales, various locales of northern Ontario, Toronto, and Paris, all collapse into each other in this hybrid novel of stories that reflect the social and cultural dynamics of a woman's heritage. Through textual layering, Tostevin achieves a sense of diversity of purpose and branching growth from a multiplicity of places, voices and traditions, creating a rich tapestry, the colours of which are very much Tostevin's own.

Lola Lemire Tostevin is a bilingual Canadian writer who works mainly in English. She is the author of three novels, eight collections of poetry, numerous pieces of short fiction, and a collection of literary essays and criticism. She has translated into English the work of many writers, including Anne Hébert, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Nicole Brossard, and Paule Thévenin, and she has translated into French Michael Ondaatje’s Elimination Dance. Her novel Frog Moon was translated into French and two of her collections of poetry, Color of Her Speech and ’sophie, were translated into Italian. Her most recent novel, The Other Sister, was published in the fall of 2008.Tostevin has taught creative writing at York University, Toronto, and served as writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario, London. She is presently preparing a second collection of literary essays and is working on a series of short fictions.

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"One of the finest writers in Canada whose work is sophisticated, sensitive and innovative in its structures and uses of language."

Shirley Neuman

"One of Canada's most important contemporary writers."

Roy Miki

"Frog Moon brings to life the lost world of French Northern Ontario with myths of a Catholic girlhood, stories of endurance and tribal longings, while at the same time revealing the pain of the narrator's inevitable assimilation in poignantly evocative prose."

Carole Corbeil

"Her poetry and fiction place her in the vanguard of those writers who are rising to prominence in this decade ... a major figure, aunique voice."

Robert Kroetsch