Summer reading blowout
Hour.ca, Canada
July 27, 2006
Brett Hooton and MJ Stone
After Pride, you’ll need some recuperation time! Make the most of
summer’s potential for relaxation by picking your favourite park
bench, poolside, beach or hammock and curling up with one – or five –
of these summer reading critics’ picks.
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Sosi By Linda Ghan (Signature Editions), 222 pp.
Okay, it’s not exactly the lightest of summertime books, but Sosi is
worth the serious effort. Marked forever by the loss of her Armenian
mother and Turkish father, Sosi is raised by Jewish relatives. Events
in Turkey inspire Sosi, who’s haunted by the Armenian genocide,
to flee to Jerusalem with her family. There she falls in love with
a young photographer named Ara and begins to think she’s finally
putting her past behind her. But when Ara disappears under mysterious
circumstances, Sosi seeks sanctuary in Montreal, fuelling her sorrow
with gin and jazz until fate finally provides her with an opportunity
to heal. (MJS)
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