One Hundred Days of Rain (12 page)

Acknowledgements

While this novel takes its inspiration from the lives we all lead day to day and year to year, it is a work of fiction and the characters are in no way meant to represent real people. Real people did, however, have a great deal to do with any art in the narrative that follows. I would like to thank, first and foremost, my writing group for seeing this book before I did: Mindy Abramowitz, Kate Bird, Shannon Underwood, Rhonda Waterfall, and others. Further thanks are due to Archer Pechawis, Peter Nosco, and Carson, for being a ray of light. And finally, my favourite gang of Thugs: Malcolm Sutton, for thoughtful editing and design; Hazel Millar, for publicity; and Jay Millar, for the leap of faith.

About the Author

Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks is the author of
fresh hell: motherhood in pieces
(2013),
Wreck Beach
(2007), and
Every Inch a Woman
(2005). She edited the anthologies
Carnal Nation
, with Brett Josef Grubisic, and
Bad Jobs
. Winner of the Books in Canada Student Writing Award for poetry (1993), the Cassell/Pink Paper Lesbian Writing Award for non-fiction (1994), and the Institute for Contemporary Arts New Blood Award for prose (1995), Brooks lives and works in Vancouver, where she was born.

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