Heather Jessup
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I have a few confessions to make to you. I love my flamenco shoes. Even when I'm not dancing and they are sitting on the floor they have rhythm in the heels. Am I good at Flamenco dancing? No. But it doesn't stop me from loving the guitar and castanets and duende and the swish of ruffled skirts. I have lived all across Canada. I know the endless parachute of blue Saskatchewan skies, I have canoed in Algonquin park, eaten late-night poutine in Montréal, and swam on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. If I was a better swimmer, I would audition to be a professional mermaid. I am a sucker for magic.
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The Lightning Field
Set against the backdrop of Cold War Toronto, The Lightning Field follows the lives of Peter and Lucy Jacobs from their post-war courtship through marriage and child-rearing in the suburbs. Though spanning four decades, the book pivots on the events of a single day: October 4, 1957. On this day, the Russians launch Sputnik into orbit, the Avro Arrow—the most advanced jet plane of its time, whose wings Peter Jacobs has engineered—rolls out onto the tarmac to great ceremony, and, in a nearby field, Lucy Jacobs is struck by lightning on her way to the event. The Lightning Field is about loss and unexpected offerings, personal dismantling and reassembly.
This book is typeset in Goluska, printed offset on Rolland Zephyr Antique Laid paper, and folded and gathered to make 272 pages. It is Smyth-sewn, bound between paper covers and enfolded in a letterpress-printed jacket.
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