Between the Island and the Turtle

In the tumult of the pandemic, a writer hopes the quarantine might provide the space to finally complete a decades-old project on her travels throughout Latin America. But an unexpected disease suddenly clouds her eyes. Poetic, inventive, introspective, Between the Island and the Turtle follows the author’s shifts in vision from past to present, shedding light on what it is to witness suffering and illness, ultimately questioning what literature can do in times of crisis.

Author Biography

Karine Rosso is the author of Histoires sans Dieu (2011), Mon ennemie Nelly (2019), Interpellations(s): Enjeux de l’ e criture au “ tu” (2018) and, alongside Nicholas Dawson, Nous sommes un continent: Correspondance mestiza (2021). A cofounder of the feminist bookstore L’ Eugue lionne, Rosso is a professor of literature at the Universite du Que bec Montre al. Karine Rosso Lives in Montreal.

Anita Anand was born in Montreal and lives there today where she is an author, translator and language teacher. She has lived in the Bronx, England, and Richmond, B.C. Her first novel, Swing in the House and Other Stories is told in a series of vignettes. Anand was a finalist for the CBC’ s Quebec Writing Competition in 2012. She is the author of Convergence of Solitudes (Book*hug 2022).