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Rebecca is excited to speak with award-winning Canadian author Barbara Joan Scott about her debut novel, The Taste of Hunger.

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"In Saskatchewan in the late 1920s, a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant named Olena is forced into marriage with Taras, a man twice her age, who wants her even though she has refused him. Stuck in a hardscrabble life with a husband she despises, starved for a life of her own choosing, at every turn Olena rebels agains her husband and her fate. As Olena and Taras drag everyone around them into the maelstrom that is their marriage, they set off a chain of turbulent events whose aftershocks reverberate through generations."

Book Recommendations:

-- All of Baba's Children by Myrna Kostash
-- Endling; Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories by Maria Reva
-- Late Breaking; All Saints: Stories; Holy Writ by K.D. Miller
-- Gilead; Home; Lila; Jack; What are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson

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