Rush Home Road

Proof copy. 8vo. 387pp. Printed wrappers.

Author's debut novel. Shortlisted for the 2002 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Memories of her own traumatic childhood flood a 70-year old African-Canadian woman's mind, after a 5-year old girl is dumped in front of her trailer park home.

"To read Lansens's Rush Home Road is to read Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women coupled with Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel, but as if both novels had been penned by Toni Morrison. [...] Lansens is a brilliant talent, with a profound, big-hearted comprehension of human flaws and humane possibilities." –The Globe and Mail