This Side of Sad life sciences but after reading Song of

but after reading Song of Kosovo

and a Canadian National Magazine Award

His work opens a window on a time and place now gone

author of Birds in Fall and Goat Song

in Nova Scotia

This Side of Sad life sciences but after reading Song ofPart mystery, part elegy, This Side of Sad begins with an ending: the violent enigma of a man's death. Was it an accident, or did James commit suicide? In the shattering aftermath, his widow, Maslen, questions her own capacity for love and undertakes a painful self inquiry, examining the history of her heart and tracing the fault lines of her own fragile identity. What emerges is a mesmerizing tour of a woman's complex past, rendered in the