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Nadia Bozak, Orphan Love. (Key Porter Books)
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NADIA BOZAK is a brave new voice in Canadian fiction. She is the recipient of the Lush Triumphant Best Fiction Award, and her short fiction has been published in The Shore, lichen and subTerrain. She is also a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Lord Nelson Hotel
730PM
with Heather O’Neill and Linda Little
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----------------------------------------------------- Winter is giving way to spring in Black Dew Seat, a rugged outpost buried in the backwoods of northern Ontario. The year is 1989, and Bozak is on the run, fleeing a buried body and an unthinkable betrayal. She stumbles into Dave, a Native rocker with a dark past, a beat-up canoe, and an escape route to the Hudson River and New York City.
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But their journey to the new world becomes a dangerous game of the hunter and the hunted when Dave’s past catches up with him, and Bozak’s thirst for revenge won’t be quenched.
Weaving together the lonely landscape of northern Ontario with the man-made terrain of New York City, and heavy metal with punk-rock culture, Nadia Bozak has written a beautiful, dark, and wholly original love story of two subterranean souls, searching for identity and redemption.
"A blunt and surly exploration of backwoods sex, violence and emotional disorder. Hard-edged misfits and outcasts in a tale that tempts you down unfamiliar paths. Nadia Bozak's sharp eye captures these lives with authenticity and undeniable power." - Kenneth J. Harvey, author of Inside
"Orphan Love has all the scalding, fierce energy of a comet whizzing through the coldest dark. Bozak’s characters are beaten up and brave and very, very much alive. Here is a coming of age story full of horror and hard-won hope. Here is the voice of a storyteller afraid of nothing, generous and wickedly bold. This novel burns bright." --Lisa Moore, author of Alligator
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