Ten Good Seconds of Silence: A novel

Ten Good Seconds of Silence: A novel

by Elizabeth Ruth
Ten Good Seconds of Silence: A novel

Ten Good Seconds of Silence: A novel

by Elizabeth Ruth

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Overview

Short-listed for the 2001 Rogers Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize and the Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Prize

Lilith Boot’s life changes forever the night she drowns the flowers in her parents’ garden. Frightened by their daughter’s odd behaviour, and her recent pronouncements of psychic visions, the Boots send Lilith to a Vancouver mental hospital. It is there that she becomes pregnant, giving birth after her discharge.

Years later, Lilith uses her visions to help Toronto police find missing children. At the same time, her own daughter, Lemon, struggles to distinguish herself from her quirky mother. Searching for her identity, she sets off across the country in search of the father she has never met. In the process, both Lilith and Lemon discover that they can never escape from the past - or each other.

This debut novel introduces an astonishing new voice to the Canadian literary scene. With fresh, inspiring language, and characters who steal your heart, Elizabeth Ruth weaves together an unforgettable story of loss and landscape of memory.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781554886227
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 09/01/2001
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 416
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Elizabeth Ruth is a Toronto-based writer whose fiction had been published in literary journals and anthologies across Canada. She has written for CBC Radio, magazines, academic journals, and video. Elizabeth is an editor with Fireweed Journal and the founder and curator of a monthly literary reading series. She has a masters degree in education and counselling psychology from the University of Toronto. Ten Good Seconds of Silence is her first novel.


Elizabeth Ruth is the author of Ten Good Seconds of Silence. A Toronto-based writer whose fiction had been published in literary journals and anthologies across Canada, she has also written for CBC Radio, magazines, academic journals, and video. Elizabeth is an editor with Fireweed Journal and the founder and curator of a monthly literary reading series. She has a master's degree in education and counselling psychology from the University of Toronto.

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