Bridge in the Rain

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BiancaLakoseljac's collection of stories Bridge in the Rain, linked by an inscription on a bench in High Park, is precise and elegant, shot through with the element of surprise as she gently but firmly pushes the boundaries between reality and the supernatural: a narrator becomes a sperm-donor substitute for Vincent van Gogh, and his fate converges with the mad painter's through the barrel of a revolver; a blow-up doll becomes The Perfect Woman and resolves narrator Lila's tedious marriage; a little girl is befriended by the characters in her books. In this delightful collection, Bianca has found her literary voice in the ordinariness of lives touched and transformed by magic -- Elizabeth Abbott

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Bianca Lakoseljac writes with precise lyricism and effortless grace. She is able to seamlessly weave together themes of domestic trauma, grief, loss and mysticism and has created a world in which the thunder of the Gardiner Expressway co-exists with the most subtle of feelings and the most magical of escapes. A lovely collection.

Bianca Lakoseljac's writing, precise and elegant, is shot through with the element of surprise as she gently but firmly pushes the boundaries between reality and the supernatural. In this delightful collection, Bianca has found her literary voice in the ordinariness of lives touched and transformed by magic.

The stories shine: they're clear, direct pieces, and very enjoyable.

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The recipient of the Matthew Ahern Memorial Award in Literature, Bianca Lakoseljac is the author of a collection of poetry, Memoirs of a Praying Mantis, published in 2009. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Canadian Woman Studies and Canadian Voices. Bridge in the Rain, stories linked by an inscription on a park bench in Toronto's High Park, is her first short story collection.