The North American prize is the largest prize celebrating women and non-binary authors.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/carol-shields-prize-for-fiction-longlist-2026-9.7116356?cmp=rss
https://youtu.be/6ROhwBYTBko?si=1qZWmFCYV1CPj9hY
Unlike my other reviews, this one has two very general comments that are related to the plot... they are not true spoilers because they are so vague.
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
—Louisa May Alcott
Wellllllllll, sorta? Keep trying is how I approach it!
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Some families leave you money. Others leave you scars. Debby Show's Paper Roses is a haunting, brilliant exploration of generational trauma and the defiant choice to break cycles. Essential reading.
https://theurb.co/paper-roses
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Discover Paper Roses by Debby Show, a gripping multigenerational family saga spanning WWII Morocco and contemporary California. Explore themes of resilience, inherited trauma, and healing in this deeply authentic, character-driven novel inspired by true events.
“He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word 'postmodernist'."
Donna Tartt, 1992
Catherine Parr, sixth queen of Henry VIII, was named after Catherine of Aragon, his first queen...who was her godmother.
Catherine the Very Much Younger was also the first woman to have her work appear in print, in English, under her own name.
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This author was blacklisted in Hollywood for 10 years as a suspected Communist. She had indeed been a "casual member" of the Party (in her possibly self-serving words) about a decade before she refused to answer questions from McCarthy's committee.
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That first sentence is a thing of beauty