O. Joan Jago

Heard discussion of Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club for Canada Reads on CBC radio this morning. I hugely appreciated the author's perspective, especially: "Why are we pretending we are equal in this country?" where "some are born into power" and others into poverty and powerlessness. I cannot agree more with her that ours is a society, a world, of "aggressive capitalism." I called Indigo for a copy; no one answered as they, like most other stores, are closed over Covid-19. I went to the book site to order it and read the author's excerpt. Forgive me for this sin, as I once used to say at the outset to the priest in the confessional, but I cannot read it now. Maybe later. At present, Olive's swallowing of her gob, the snot, etc, bother too much, the cumbersome language too distracting. I never could read Wally Lamb's book after the protagonist sawed off his hand. Too dreadful to delve into that mind. I want very much to read Small Game, but at this dreadful time of virus and looming death, I cannot.