The only inexplicable thing about this superb anthology of writing by Canadian women is the rock-star treatment given its editor, Lisa Moore, whose name on the cover can only be described as the typographical equivalent of shrieking. Moore would undoubtedly have been included here were she not the editor, but given the canonical Canadian heavyweights who lie between the covers – Munro, Gallant, Shields, and Atwood are obvious examples – let’s just say that the marquee billing feels a tad disproportionate. Read more…