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Book Review of The Canning Season

The Canning Season
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I loved this oddly moving story, both joyful and poignant. It's hard to believe your response to reading of a mother's suicide by self-beheading is to laugh, but Horvath conjures an almost magical set of elderly aunties who seem to make the sad funny and vice versa. This tale of eccentricity, loss and acceptance surprised and delighted me.