About the Author
Suzette Mayr
Suzette Mayr is the author of Venous Hum, The Widows, Moon Honey, and Monoceros, which won the W. O. Mitchell Book Prize, the ReLit Award for Best Novel, and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Mayr lives in Calgary, Alberta.
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