Lori Lansens' books are inspired by the rural Canadian community where she spent her youth. She was a successful screenwriter before she burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with her first novel Rush Home Road, the story of a 70-year-old woman’s journey to save an abandoned little girl. Jacquelyn Mitchard called it “a first novel of exquisite power, honesty, and conviction.” Her follow-up novel, The Girls, was about a pair of co-joined twins, and about which Isabel Allende wrote, “I promise: you will never forget this extraordinary story…Lori Lansens’ blend of tragedy and comedy will touch you deeply.” Lansens’ new novel is The Wife’s Tale, a story about a woman grappling with obesity: “Like short-story queen Alice Munro, to whom she is often compared, Lansens demonstrates a singular gift for discerning both the ordinary and the extraordinary in small-town life and small-town people,” says the Winnipeg Free Press.

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Titles

• The Wife’s Tale
• The Girls
• Rush Home Road