Bianca tells the story of her beloved cousin Marco, whose life is disintegrating along with his city, Venice. Marco his her dark twin, her Italian self. Multifacetted, this is a thriller, a study of social mores in Italy and Canada.

The lion's mouth

Literature & Fiction

Edwards, Caterina

Poetry

NeWest Press

Conceived as a quasi-opera, evocative of the passionate intensity of Italian operatic characters, this is not so much an 'Italian play' as a play of prisons and prisoners, frustrated human needs and passions, and dreams of home (4 men, 2 women, 1 boy).

Homeground (Drama Series 5)

Humor & Entertainment

Guernica Editions

The Lion's Mouth (Prose Series 16)

United States

Guernica Editions Inc.

**Winner of the Alberta LIterary Awards Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction** When her mother, Rosa, begins to show signs of dementia, Caterina Edwards embarks on a myriad of journeys geographical, intellectual, emotional that turn out to be part of one journey, a search for the meaning of the past and of home. During the four years she cares for Rosa, Edwards must navigate between conflicting responsibilities to self, family, and work while dealing with her mother's confusion, hostility, paranoia, and fear, and her own physical and emotional exhaustion. As Rosa loses her memory and her self, Edwards travels to Istria, now part of Croatia, where she discovers a suppressed history of ethnic cleansing, loss, and displacement that altered Rosa’s life course irrevocably. This frank memoir limns a multifaceted history of two women in crisis, one struggling to maintain a sense of self against the demands of disease and the weight of a dark past, the other seeking understanding and solace in the face of something that resists both.

Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer's, a Daughter in Search of the Past

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Greystone Books

When her mother, Rosa, begins to show signs of dementia, Caterina Edwards embarks on what turns out to be a search for the meaning of the past and of home. During the four years she cares for her mother, Edwards must navigate between conflicting responsibilities while dealing with her mother's troubled mind and her own exhaustion. This frank memoir tells a complex story of two women in crisis, one struggling to maintain a sense of self, the other seeking to understand and accept both her past and her present.

Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer s, a Daughter in Search of the Past

Fiction. THE SICILIAN WIFE is both a literary novel and a mystery. Fulvia, the Mafia Princess, must be a dutiful daughter or the family will be dishonoured. Though she eventually escapes and makes a new life in Canada, she is betrayed and then her husband is murdered on the Sicilian coast. The Police Chief investigating the case is Marisa, who faces a station house of skeptical men as well as confronting Fulvia's uncle, the boss of bosses. Interweaving folk tales, classical allusions, and recent Italian history with the conventions of the detective story in this powerful new novel, Caterina Edwards uses the literary noir to question the very possibility of justice and free will. "THE SICILIAN WIFE is both a political thriller and an absorbing psychological page-turner. It is set firmly in Sicilian noir and yet travels a Canadian immigrant's dark childhood past. This is a novel, like Sicily herself: full of marvelous contradictions and beauty. Of course, I raced along with the police investigation. I enjoyed each Sicilian proverb and delicacy. But in its final pages I'm sure I could taste the sting in the Sicilian dust."—the National Post's top 99 list of 2015 books "The novel is ambitious, flitting between different timelines and allowing the story of Fulvia's past to inform and enrich de Luca's investigation ... These different threads are well-balanced, making THE SICILIAN WIFE a crime novel with a real depth of character and place."—Peter Oliva, Calgary "THE SICILIAN WIFE is a clever interpretation of the Mafia noir genre, a great pageturner which manages to evoke a refreshingly authentic portrait of contemporary Sicily."—Nathan Ruthven, The National Post

Sicilian Wife, The

Literary

Linda Leith Publishing

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