When She Was Electric
Raincoast Books
Available: 04/14/03
5.26 x 8.06
9781551925967
CDN $21.95
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When She Was Electric is a layered, evocative first novel from a young writer. At its heart is a wrenching disruption-the disappearance of a young girl in a sleepy town in the 1930s.
Electric digs deep into the story of three generations of women: the enterprising grandmother who bought a rejected piece of land near an Indian Reserve; the daughters, ethereal Min and bold Nellie; and granddaughters Ana and Willa, who embody the hopes-and the secrets-of this matriarchy. MacPherson brilliantly reveals the hazy unreliability of memory, the fragility of life, and how a child's death haunts a splintered town.
Andrea MacPherson completed an MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Her fiction and poetry has been widely published in literary magazines, and she was the editor of Prism International. She lives in Vancouver.
