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On Motherhood and Rage: A Not-Review of Anne Marie MacDonald’s Adult Onset
The put your pillow over your face to keep it quiet as you fall asleep kind of book is a rare thing. There are only two other books in the last 5 years that have had this effect on me — Jose Saramago’s Blindness and Marilynne...
Ann-Marie MacDonald, Charter of Readers’ Rights and Freedoms
“It’s very much about the abyss of Greek tragedy opening at your feet in the aisle of the grocery store.” – Ann-Marie MacDonald. – Listen to the interview online
Ann-Marie MacDonald mines motherhood and a painful past for Adult Onset
“It’s kind of like when you have to make supper and you haven’t gone grocery shopping and there’s no food in the house,” says MacDonald, in an interview at the Calgary Herald. “But there always is. We’re having pasta. That’s what...
Adult Onset trades historical grandeur for the microcosm of family life
Adult Onset will surprise fans of MacDonald’s two previous and wildly successful novels, Fall On Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies, with a story that trades historical grandeur for the microcosm of family life. – Read...
Self-reflections on parenthood from Ann-Marie MacDonald
With the publication of Adult Onset, MacDonald has completed a trilogy that shows her life “in a parallel world.” All three novels draw heavily on her biography, but Adult Onset might be the closest MacDonald comes to writing a memoir. The similarities...
With Adult Onset, Ann-Marie MacDonald has yet again delivered a masterpiece
If I call a book gothic, it evokes castles, cliffs, and counts. It does not conjure up images of the sort of red-brick house in which most of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s new novel, Adult Onset, takes place. – Read more
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Adult Onset, by Ann-Marie MacDonald: Review
It is a high achievement for a writer to portray the persistent worry of avoidance in a way than rings true. – Read more
5 things I learned from author Ann-Marie MacDonald
When Ann-Marie sat down with me, we talked about cooking, writing processes and everything in between (at one point she actually compared writing her semi-autobiographical book to cooking pasta: You think it will be a simple task of throwing together...
Caught in her own hall of mirrors
In basic factual terms, there is barely a playing card’s width between life and art in an intricate, gripping novel that is also a master class in turning the personal into the universal through art. “I want to make it everybody’s story,” says the 55-year-old author...
For Ann-Marie MacDonald, truth is in the storytelling
You’re a parent. You’re harried. You’ve spent the last seven days doing what parents do: picking up kids, shopping, wiping up pee, hoping your pit bull doesn’t attack the postman, having a chance encounter with an old flame in the supermarket. At...
Excerpt: A woman semi-retires in her 40s to raise her kids
Ann-Marie MacDonald’s third novel follows the trials and tribulations of Mary Rose MacKinnon, whose life is a comfortable chaos with her wife, Hilary, an in-demand director, two kids, aging parents, a dog and a lovely urban home. It all threatens...