Judith Elaine Cowan: 2 books

In a darker view of the free-wheeling 1960s, a young woman is forced to flee a violent and dangerous boyfriend. Setting out to look for a job, she finds work as a dicta-typist at the CBC. As she drifts into Toronto’s hippie counterculture, hoping one day to write, the notion of a career is still...

On a rainy October evening, Leo bikes forty kilometres into the country to see his mother. He’s tormented at not knowing who his birth father was, and she’s always refused to tell him. Leo wants connection, he wants to belong. Is he related to the family in a nineteenth-century photograph found...