Name: Becalming
ISBN: 9781459756038

A blend of comedy and tragedy, imbued with a discussion of family expectations and identity in many forms
Like the nautical term of the title, the characters are stalled in their early adulthood as intergenerational trauma affects their careers and relationships
With the preoccupations of a Sally Rooney novel, takes the reader into relationships, both love and family, that deepen and complicate as they mature out of their twenties
Examines masculinity through the lens of world travel, wanderlust, migration, and the pull of home
Asks whether we have agency, or if all we do is repeat patterns our parents learned from their parents
Fiction Mirrors Life: Like her protagonist Gosia, who is a chemistry teacher at a boy's school, the author has spent her teaching career at a school for boys, causing her to reflect on shifting and permanent ideas of masculinity
Author emigrated to Canada from Poland, and now lives in Toronto

Becalming

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