This Strange Visible Air

In this incisive collection, Sharon Butala reflects on the ways her life has changed as she's grown old. She knows that society fails the elderly massively, and so she tackles ageism and loneliness, friendship and companionship. She writes with pointed wit and acerbic humour about dinner parties and health challenges and forgetfulness and complicated family relationships and the pandemic and lettuce. And she tells her story with the tremendous skill and beauty of a writer who has masterfully honed her craft over the course of her storied four-decade career.

Butala gives us a book to be cherished an elegant and expansive look at the complexities and desires of aging and the aged, standing in stark contrast to the stereotyped, simplistic portrayals of the elderly in our culture.This Strange Visible Airis a true gift. (From Freehand Books)

Sharon Butala is a Saskatchewan-based author of 19 novels and nonfiction books, including The Perfection of the Morning,Where I Live Now,Zara's Dead,FeverandWild Rose. She is a three-time Governor General's Literary Award nominee and received the Marian Engel Award in 1998. In 2002,She became an officer of the Order of Canada.

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