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In 1961, a country singer named Johnny Cash chose a beautiful young woman named Alexandra Wiwcharuk to be his "Girl in Saskatoon" and sang to her in front of a hometown crowd. A few months later she would be found bruta...
"An intimate and uplifting book about finding renewal and hope through grief and loss. "It was a terrible life; it was an enchanted life; it was a blessed life. And, of course, one day it ended."--Sharon Butala in the tr...
"Fiona Lychenko--now a woman in her late sixties--spent years researching the death of her high school classmate Zara Stanley, who was brutally murdered in the early sixties, at the age of twenty. Determined to solve the...
In this epic story of The West, now long gone, we witness Sophie's journey from underloved child in religion-bound rural Quebec, to headstrong young woman, to exhausted homesteader, to deserted bride and mother, to indep...
Acclaimed novelist and literary nonfiction writer Sharon Butala's new novel is vividly filled with sodbusters and cowboys, fallen women and proper ladies, settlers and Indians. By the end of the first chapter, Sophie Hip...
When Sharon Butala?s husband, Peter, died unexpectedly, she found herself with no place to call home. Torn by grief and loss, she fled southwest Saskatchewan and moved to the city, leaving almost everything behind. A lif...
These stories present the lives of old women - women of experience, who've seen much of life, who've tasted of its sweetness and its bitter possibilities, and have developed opinions and come to conclusions about what it...
When Sharon Butala's husband, Peter, died unexpectedly, she found herself with no place to call home. Torn by grief and loss, she fled southwest Saskatchewan and moved to the city, leaving almost everything behind. A lif...
"Fiona Lychenko--now a woman in her late sixties--spent years researching the death of her high school classmate Zara Stanley, who was brutally murdered in the early sixties, at the age of twenty. Determined to solve the...
In this epic story of The West, now long gone, we witness Sophie's journey from underloved child in religion-bound rural Quebec, to headstrong young woman, to exhausted homesteader, to deserted bride and mother, to indep...