Susan Braley

Reading Canada: Teaching Canadian Fiction in Secondary Schools By Wendy Donawa and Leah C. Fowler Oxford University Press 275 pp. $69.95 Reviewed by Susan Braley. In Reading Canada: Teaching Canadian Fiction in Secondary Schools, Wendy Donawa and Leah C. Fowler rightfully name teachers as curators of Canada’s narrative culture. Teachers collect, preserve and interpret the […]

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Every Happy Family By Dede Crane Coteau Books 247 pp., $18.95 Reviewed by Susan Braley. Jill, mother, wife and “itinerant” scholar in Dede Crane’s third novel Every Happy Family, thinks “perfection is out there . . . if only she tries a little harder.” For the five years we know her, she devotes herself, lovingly […]

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