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Books make great gifts. From history to fantasy and everything in between, here are some suggestions for your mom on Mother s Day.
If your mother likes mother/daughter stories, try
My Mother s Daughter is a memoir by Canadian Olympian Perdita Felicien.(Martin Brown, Doubleday Canada)
Perdita Felicien s mom Catherine was a poor young woman in St. Lucia when she was given a seemingly random, but ultimately life-changing, opportunity: to come to Canada with a wealthy white family and become their nanny. But when she gets to Canada, life is tougher than she expected, as she endures poverty, domestic violence and even homelessness. However, she still encouraged and supported her youngest daughter s athletic dreams. Felicien would go on to be a world-class hurdler and one of Canada s greatest track athletes.
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Author of the article: Eric Volmers
Publishing date: Apr 09, 2021 • 7 hours ago • 5 minute read • Genki Ferguson. Photo by Anna Anaka. jpg
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The first glint of inspiration for Satellite Love came to author Genki Ferguson as a fairly broad, universal image. It was of a teenage girl staring longingly up at the stars.
“The defining image was someone looking into space, someone making the connection with something far beyond,” says Ferguson, in an interview with Postmedia from his home in Vancouver. “At first, I wasn’t sure if it was an alien or this or that. But it all kind of stemmed from an image of looking beyond, out into space.”
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