The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: mental-health

  • Sometimes people leave you / Halfway through the woods

    At this time of year, as January gives way to February, I always rest a bit in grief and the recollection of loss. No one makes it through adulthood without having experienced the heaviness of loved ones who left this life. In Stephen Sondheim’s gorgeous “No One Is Alone” from Into the Woods, we have…

  • Pat Capponi’s Socially-Conscious Crime Fiction

    Yesterday I walked downtown fairly early in the morning, just after seven. There was a glorious sunrise. Shades of purple and pink, a veritable Homeric rosy-fingered dawn. And then, along Pandora Street, where I’d intended to pick up a greasy breakfast sandwich as my reward for an early morning irksome errand, I was daunted by…

  • Another Form of CNF True Crime: Trauma and Abuse Memoirs

    This isn’t material I would teach as mandatory reading in a creative writing class, and probably also not in a literature course, no matter how well crafted. Teaching fiction that deals with childhood violence has offered me enough instances where undergraduate students, many of whom are still teenagers, react strongly and not always predictably to…