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The Change Room by Karen Connelly
Happily married, great career, mother of two. What more could a woman possibly want? Enter The Change Room, by award-winning writer Karen Connelly, and find out.Eliza Keenan is the mother of two young sons, the owner of a flower studio that caters to the city's elite, and the loving wife of a deliciously rumpled math professor named Andrew. She's on the move from dawn until her boys are in bed, and after they're asleep she cleans her house. Her one complaint about her life is that the only time she has for herself is her twice-weekly swim in the local community centre pool, where sunlight shines in through a tall window and lights up the water in a way that reminds her of the year she spent as a footloose youth on an island in Greece. Then one morning into this life that is full of satisfactions of all kinds except sexual (because who has the time or the energy once the kids are asleep?) comes a tall, dark and lovely stranger, a young woman Eliza encounters at the pool and nicknames 'the Amazon.' The sight of this woman, naked in the change room, completely undoes Eliza, and soon the two of them are entangled in an affair that breaks all the rules, and threatens to capsize not only Eliza and her happy family, but her lover's world, too. And yet the sex is so all-encompassing, so intimate, so true...how can it be bad?
Be ready to be shaken up, woken up, scandalized and deeply stirred.
Karen Connelly's first book of poetry, The Small Words in My Body, won the Pat Lowther Award. Her first book of prose, Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal - an account of the year she spent in Thailand at seventeen - won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1993; at twenty-four, she was the youngest writer ever to win that prize. The Lizard Cage, Connelly's first novel, was shortlisted for both the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. To write it, she found she had to lock herself in the cage along with the main character. For nine long years she imagined she was trapped in a windowless, 8 x 10 jail cell. I cried every day for the first four years that I worked on that book, Connelly said in an interview with Reader's Digest. There were times when I thought I would never be free of it. She went on to explain what helped to urge her forward, I came to realize that I was making my contribution to the largely unwritten history of kindness. At least that's one of my motives-to contribute to the literature of how people retain and nurture their humanity, particularly in difficult situations. Karen Connelly is currently working on a book of essays set in the refugee camps and among the rebel armies along the Burmese-Thai border. She makes her home in Toronto.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780345814265 |
| ISBN 10 | 0345814266 |
| Title | The Change Room |
| Author | Karen Connelly |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House Canada |
| Year published | 2017-04-11 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Bisexual Book Award - Fiction 2018 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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