Displaced

The immigrant experience—feelings of being an outlier or an alien, a maverick or displaced—is what drives these stories set between three oceans and the southern border. From the dark and bitter satire of Mordechai Richler’s Solomon Gursky Was Here to the intricate and lyrical Ru by Kim Thuy, the stories below reflect the Canadian experience: the need to find a spot in the mosaic and call it home.

—Gina Roitman, Collection Curator

Gina Roitman is the author of the literary thriller Don’t Ask and the short story collection Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth, as well as the co-author of  the biography Midway to China and Beyond. Gina has just completed her latest novel, An Unlovable Man, on the life of the existentialist Belarusian-French painter Chaim Soutine as told through the women in his life. Her essays have appeared in numerous anthologies, most recently in the just-released Please Don’t Interrupt. Since 2017 Gina has coached continuous memoir writing workshops for Generations After of Greater Washington, DC and the Quebec Writers’ Federation.