Her first novel, “The Nettle Spinner,” was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2005, while her most recent book, 2014’s “ All The Broken Things,” was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award, was shortlisted for Canada Reads and was a national bestseller. Her first book, the short story collection “Way Up,” was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award and the ReLit Prize in 2004. Kuitenbrouwer is no stranger to great pieces of work. This, one recognizes quickly, is a great piece of work. That, in a nutshell, is what “Wait Softly Brother” is about.Īs one begins reading the novel, however, and begins to see just how Kuitenbrouwer uses the somewhat familiar material, one is quickly dazzled. A writer by trade, the woman attempts to write her way out of her depression and alienation, building on the scant details of the life of a long-dead relative to create a new novel. It’s a credo which comes to mind when reading a book like “Wait Softly Brother,” the stunning new novel by Ontario writer Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer.įrom a brief description, the novel sounds familiar: a woman in middle age, fleeing her marriage, ends up in her family home, and is swallowed up by the secrets and lies of the past.
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The great film critic Roger Ebert often opined, “it’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it.” The line was something of a credo for the critic, a way of moving past the inherent limitations of originality (when you boil it down, a truly original story is a very rare thing) and focusing instead on what the filmmakers brought to a particular subject.
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