title: No Margins: writing Canadian Fiction in Lesbian
author: Catherine Lake
description: Margins are ignored in this fine collection of fiction by 15 Canadian lesbians. Three of its authors have won Canada's highest literary honor, and readers will recognize authors such as Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall on Your Knees, an Oprah pick) and Shani Mootoo (Cereus Blooms at Night). Themes of discovery and lost boundaries (sexual and otherwise) run through the anthology, and though the stories vary in quality, a sense of energy and newness pervades them. Standouts include Dionne Brand's contribution, an excerpt from In Another Place, Not Here that crackles with Caribbean authenticity; Nicole Brossard's treatise-like "State of Mind in the Garden"; and Karen X. Tulchinsky's "Ruined by Love," a road story set on the west coast. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  No Margins
  
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  No Margins
  
  writing canadian fiction in lesbian
  
  edited by
  
  Catherine Lake and Nairne Holtz
  
   **INSOMNIAC PRESS**
  
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  Collection copyright © 2006 by Catherine Lake and Nairne Holtz
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
  
  a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the
  
  prior written permission of the publisher or, in case of photocopying or other
  
  reprographic copying, a license from Access Copyright, 1 Yonge Street, Suite
  
  1900, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5E 1E5.
  
  Edited by Catherine Lake and Nairne Holtz
  
  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
  
  No margins : writing Canadian fiction in lesbian / edited by Catherine
  
  Lake, Nairne Holtz.
  
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
  ISBN 1-897178-15-8
  
  1\. Lesbians--Fiction. 2. Les