Rush Home Road (46 page)

 

L
ORI
L
ANSENS
is a successful screenwriter who lives in Toronto with her husband and child.
Rush Home Road
, her first novel, has been the subject of major international interest.

 

Acclaim for Lori Lansens'

Rush Home Road

“A stunning debut novel.”
Sunday Express
(London)

“[
Rush Home Road
] is a moving testament to survival.”
The Edmonton Journal

“[A] poignant debut…. This is artfully done.”
Publishers Weekly

“Lansens is a willing storyteller…. As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported—who might sit at her knee, the hearth.”
National Post

“
Rush Home Road
[is]…a compulsively readable book that leaves us feeling we know more about a time and place—and about humankind—than when we opened the cover.”
Quill & Quire

“Heartwarming and heartbreaking…. Lori Lansens tells a story Oprah's book club would have loved…. The reader can almost see the characters' distinct features, smell the trailer park they live in and hear their voices.”
FFWD
(Calgary)

“A poignant novel about the power of love and forgiveness.”
Booklist

“[
Rush Home Road
's] true power comes from Lansens' authorial voice—a combination of grit and sensuality that exposes the full humanity of characters laid bare against an inconstant sociological landscape. The language flows effortlessly and naturally, dialogue rendered true and authentic through Lansens' deft handling of vernacular. The author's deep compassion for her characters evokes writers like John Steinbeck.”
The Chronicle–Herald
(Halifax)

 

VINTAGE CANADA EDITION,
2003

Copyright © 2002 Lori Lansens

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Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2002. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Vintage Canada and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House of Canada Limited.

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

Lansens, Lori
Rush Home Road / Lori Lansens.

e
ISBN:
978-0-307-37128-7

1. Women, Black—Ontario—Fiction. 2. Black, Canadians—Ontario—Fiction. I. Title.

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8573.
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