I met Madeleine for a manuscript review and had already started reading this book. She's currently Writer in Residence at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. When I told her I was working on a series of short stories, she said she was still quite proud of this first book - her only book of shor...
I realized that I liked this book more after my second time reading it. A year ago I gave it three stars, feeling that it didn't live up to "Simple Recipes", but I've changed my mind after spending another month re-reading the story. That rarely happens to me, but in this case, Madeleine's beauti...