Fishing for Birds

De: Linda Quennec

Narrado por: Nina Richmond

Kate, a somewhat clumsy widow of 32, flees her stifling hometown on Vancouver Island to live alone on an even smaller island in the Salish Sea. In so doing, she has vague expectations of solace and sanctuary, despite past experience. Instead she meets Ivy, a woman who through their conversations transports her to the intoxicating world of 1926 Cuba. Within the context of their friendship, Ivy’s past begins to unravel from a long-held silence, just as Kate finds herself confronting her relationship with the colorful community she’s known all her life, along with an unexpected visitor who threatens to remove all peace from her chosen refuge.

Told from the perspectives of three narrators: Ivy, Kate, and Kate’s mother Nora, Fishing for Birds is a novel that juxtaposes the expectations we cling to so fiercely and the unexpected and sometimes unconventional things that turn up. The novel challenges traditional constructs of time, ethnicity, and relationship. Set against the tropical beauty of 1920s Cuba and the Northwest Coast of contemporary time, both the landscape and unique character of island life underscore the experiences of three very different women.

“Sharp, visceral, storytelling from Linda Quennec, a confident new voice in Canadian novel-writing.” (Sarah Sheard, author of Krank, Almost Japanese, and other novels)

©2019 Linda Quennec (P)2020 Inanna Publications

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Author Quennec masters juxtaposition and paradox in this unassuming but powerful debut novel.” (US Review of Books)

“The novel offers an astute examination of the despair engendered by solitude and of the paradoxical consolations it delivers.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Fishing for Birds is a sensual exploration of the human need for storytelling as we try make sense of being alive and then, how we continue onwards, when nothing is straightforward.” (The Minerva Reader)

It Wanders Far And Wide

But we never lose track of the lost souls weaving their ways back to themselves through fertile lands.