Beatrice

For the residents of Beatrice, the grain elevator reminds each person of the parts of them that exist in the past, still defining who they are today. For Colleen, an ill-fated teenage romance led her from Thunder Bay to Beatrice some seventeen years ago. Dale, Jr., tries to live up to his father’s example after he inherits the family farm. Dolores struggles to keep her life’s losses and disappointments at bay. Perry laments his son, lost to the city, and his wife, whose secret life Perry did not discover until long after her death.

AUTHOR

Monica Kidd

Monica Kidd was raised in the small town of Elnora, AB. Shortly after moving to Newfoundland in 1998, she began working full-time as a reporter for CBC Radio, where she won numerous awards for news stories and documentaries. She is the author of Actualities, a collection of poetry, as well as the novels The Momentum of Red and Beatrice.

After completing a B.Sc. in Zoology at the University of Calgary and a M.Sc. in Biology at Queen’s University, she attended medical school at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is currently a medical resident in St. John’s, Newfoundland.