Want
By Barbara Langhorst
Finalist: 2019 Book of the Year Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
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Finalist: 2019 Book of the Year Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
Born and educated in Edmonton, AB, Barbara Langhorst teaches writing and literature at St. Peter?s College in Muenster, SK. Her first book, Restless White Fields (NeWest 2012), won Poetry Book of the Year Awards in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Want is her debut novel. She lives in Humboldt, SK.
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