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Finalist, George Bugnet Award for Fiction
Kalila chronicles the lives of Maggie and Brodie, whose joy collides with devastation when their daughter's birth also heralds the news of her congenital heart condition. In this startlingly inventive novel, Rosemary Nixon braids light and darkness into a narrative chain pulled exquisitely taut.
Through Maggie and Brodie's shifting viewpoints, the isolating impenetrability of hospital life, the mediation of physics, music, and family, Nixon propels the reader into unmapped emotional terrain where a shell-shocked family grapples with the horror, joy, and mystery of impermanence. The result is a spellbinding tale, provocative for the emotions and the intellect.
"Here is love and grief and coming through. Rosemary Nixon is unflinching and clear-eyed, a brave stylist who does what the very best writers always do — she sees with her heart. Kalila is a gift." — Lisa Moore, author of February
"Kalila is fearless. Nixon''s sentences are taut: her chapters snap with vivid crispness. With never a wasted word, nor superfluous embellishment, the story pulls with tension and tenderness, and jabs the reader in a deep and terribly human vein." — Steven Ross-Smith, author of Fluttertongue 5: Everything Appears to Shine with Mossy Splendour
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