Mad Hope
In the stories of Mad Hope, Journey Prize winner Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both recognizable and alarming. A science teacher and former doctor is forced to re-examine the role he played in Ceauşescu’s Romania after a student makes a shocking request; a tragic plane crash becomes the basis for a meditation on motherhood and its discontents; women in an online chat group share (and overshare) their anxieties and personal histories; and a chance encounter in a waiting room tests the ties that bind us.
Using precise, inventive language, Birrell creates astute and empathetic portraits of people we thought we knew — and deftly captures the lovely, maddening mess of being human.
- Author
- Heather Birrell
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 223
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781552452585
- Genres
- fiction, canada
- Release date
- 2012
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