WRITING WHAT THEY KNOW

Novelist Georgia Toews is following in the literary footsteps of her mom, the celebrated author Miriam Toews. What’s it like when your mother is also your mentor?

JEAN MARC AH-SEN

MIDWAY THROUGH GEORGIA TOEWS’S debut novel, Hey, Good Luck Out There, the protagonist, Bobbi, has just finished a gruelling stint in rehab for alcohol addiction. Kicked out of her bedbug-infested apartment, she ends up wandering through the streets of Toronto dragging along a small carry-on suitcase. In a moment of desperation, she calls an old flame who might offer her a place to sleep for the night, even though she is uncomfortable with what such an arrangement might cost her. As she makes her way to the rendezvous, she considers the impression she might give to passersby: “I hoped that I looked like a young traveller heading off purposefully, on her way to the airport, on an adventure.” The first half of Luck is set in a downtown Toronto facility…

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