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Dropped
Threads 3:
Beyond the Small Circle
In the tradition of the enormously popular and bestselling Dropped
Threads and Dropped Threads 2, comes
this singular collection of essays from well-known writers and
new voices.
The thirty-five essays in this collection focus on personal discoveries
that these women writers want to share with other women: family
secrets, sexuality, rebellion, their own crevices of deep joy or
regret; about being a late bloomer, finding connections to nature,
to animals, to finding a “tribe” to which they belong;
about embracing forgiveness, kindness, and new perspectives beyond
the small circle of individual sight. The need to share these stories
is undeniable, and in Beyond the Small Circle,
Marjorie Anderson has created a forum for Canadian women to share
and discuss their experiences of growth and discovery with honesty,
insight and humour.
REVIEW QUOTES
Praise for the Dropped Threads series:
“These are all the conversations we would wish to have with
friends and these essays stimulate the sense of exuberance and
relief that one always feels after a long, self-revelatory talk.”
–The Halifax Chronicle-Herald
“There’s no manual for life. But thanks to Marjorie
Anderson and Carol Shields, there are a few more voices of experience
shedding light on some of life’s little surprises… [This]
is an intriguing, sometimes funny and often moving collection.”
–Winnipeg Sun
“Each voice is distinctive, yet most share a stance: unsentimental,
clear-eyed, compassionate but unflinching…. What all of
them have in common is candour. Dropped Threads 2 is
as good as its predecessor, sometimes even better…. The Dropped
Threads anthologies have become, as [Carol Shields] notes
in her afterword, an ongoing project. Long may they continue.”
–Quill & Quire
“Dropped Threads is a much-awaited anthology
of essays and stories by Canadian women, including celebrated writers
as well as women who are neither writers nor famous.”
–Ottawa Citizen
“It’s a collection of revealing essays and short stories
by thirty-five Canadian women at mid-life and beyond, reflecting
on the life events that caught them off guard and, somehow, haven’t
been talked about…. As it turns out, there are many dropped
threads in our lives. Weave them together and you’ve got
a tapestry.”
–Chatelaine
Contents
Marjorie
Anderson • Foreword
Ann-Marie MacDonald • Introduction
Part
One • A Kind of Benediction
Margaret Atwood • Polonia
Marie-Lynn Hammond • Creature
Comfort
Lorri Neilsen Glenn • Believe
You Me
Patricia Pearson • Notes
on a Counterrevolution
M.A.C. Farrant • The
Gospel According to Elsie
Natalie Fingerhut • In
Praise of Misfits
Gillian Kerr • Tiny
Tomatoes
Jodi Lundgren • Pitch:
A Dancer’s Journal
Melanie Janzen • The
Road to Kihande Village
Part
Two • A Clarity of Vision
Beth Powning • Barefoot
in the Snow
Barbara Mitchell • Finding
My Way
Judy Rebick • Rebellion
and Beyond
Harriet Hart • She
Drinks
Chantal Kreviazuk • Over
the Rocks and Stones
Tracey Ann Coveart • I
Am a Mother
Barbara Scott • Tethers
Silken Laumann • Uncharted
Waters
Liane Faulder • About
the Boys
Part
Three • A Long Echo
Aritha van Herk • Work
and Its Dubious Delights
Barbara McLean • From
the Ashes
Bernice Morgan • Love
and Fear
Heather Mallick • The
Inoculation
Laurie Sarkadi • The
Bear Within
Maggie Devries • The
Only Way Past
J.C. Szasz • No
Beatles Reunion
Janice Williamson • Fú:
The Turning Point
Jodi Stone • Divorcing
Your Mother
Part
Four • Gifts Beyond Reckoning
Frances Itani • Conspicuous
Voices
Cathy Stonehouse • In
the Presence of Grace
Andrea Curtis • The
Writers’ Circle
Susan Riley • Larry’s
Last Resort
Norma DePledge • My
Father’s Last Gift
C.B. Mackintosh • Moss
Campion
Lorna Crozier • Animal
Lesson
June Callwood • A
Thought, or Maybe Two
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