Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and the Caribbean,
Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and On the Same Page, Manitoba
ReadsShortlisted, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book,
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and McNally Robinson Book of
the YearLonglisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardFor Lily Piper, life
on the prairie is spare, austere, and tucked in. She is restless --
not the daughter she feels her mother wants. When puberty hits, an
abrupt shift in fate has Lily on her way to England to care for her
aging grandmother. There, she experiences life in all its
ambiguity, until she is called home to face a future she thought
she had escaped. Thomas's prose is intimate, elegant and
devastatingly funny; her engrossing story of Lily Piper tells us
something about how we make sense of the future when the future is
something we can hardly imagine. Reading by Lightning, Joan
Thomas's long-awaited first novel, took readers by storm. A year
after its publication, it had won numerous awards, found a large
readership, and been selected by popular vote for On the Same Page,
Manitoba's one book reading experience. Goose Lane is pleased to
reissue Reading by Lightning in this reader's guide edition,
complete with an afterword, an interview with the author, extended
biographical notes, and more.
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