Aga Maksimowska: Learning to Sit in the Chaos
Sam Field and Amanda Fields talk with Aga Maksimowska, author of Becalming, about drawing on the complexities of family life in fiction and revisiting characters through the lens of motherhood.
Becalming tells the story of two people realizing that happily ever after is not something to be but something to continue to explore, through adversity and outrage, tragedy and inspiration, and love.
Gosia, a high school chemistry teacher, travels to her native Poland to visit her estranged father. Back in Canada, meanwhile, her father-in-law — who has been more of a dad to her than her own — is dying…
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