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  Book Review: Roads Unravelling by Kathy-Diane Leveille

  In this collection of eight short stories, Kathy-Diane Leveille explores how the past won't let go and how it shapes our future as well as our present.

  

  Dive into these stories, let their current take you. New Brunswick’s Kennebecasis is to Kathy-Diane Leveille what the Miramichi is to David Adams Richards—a harsh and lovely riverscape of the soul. Leveille’s writing sings of heartbreak and redemption, and the wicked dancing moments in-between.  A wise and stirring debut. Carol Bruneau author of Purple for Sky

    

  Her settings and characters—their hopes and fears, verbal and behavioural ticks, even their smells—are keenly observed and full of sensual presence. The Globe and Mail

   

  All of us can see ourselves in these characters. These are stories that speak to the complicated bonds we have with siblings and parents, who they were and who they are now and how we learn the truth of what we took for granted before. The Daily Gleaner

   

  Picturing ordinary people in extraordinary situations, and recording their impressions with an intense clarity we associate more with black and white photos, Leveille is blessed with a flash of insight that lets the readers see far beyond the surface. The Chronicle Journal

   

  Roads Unravelling is a winding highway of quiet, still surfaces and yawning depths. Patrolling the flow are gape-jawed monsters and small glimmering pearls of real beauty. The New Brunswick Reader

   

  Roads Unravelling sends the reader off the beaten path and down an honest dirt-road trek to some very worthwhile destinations. Kathy-Diane Leveille portrays her travelling companions with clarity and insight. Her fiction is absorbing: her command of dialogue and story development is assured. Roads Unravelling is a great piece of Canadian literature. Lesley Choyce author of Clear Cold Morning

   

  FROM THE PUBLISHER: With deft humour and unflinching honesty, Kathy-Diane Leveille unveils life’s absurdities, the painful mistakes we all make and manage to survive. Rooted in working class experience, each story in Roads Unravelling traces the arc of a woman’s awakening and her struggle to navigate unfamiliar territory. Though Leveille’s characters are full of human frailties, they are willing to travel down necessary roads, no matter how unexpected their twists and turns.  Leveille has a gift for striking imagery, an ear for dialect, and an unsettling way of making the most prosaic choices seem foolhardy and the most outlandish seem reasonable. This is collection that invites the pleasure of re-reading.

  Roads Unravelling published by Sumach Press
  150 pages
  ISBN 1-894549-28-7
  
  http://kathy-dianeleveille.com

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