Becalming
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Aga Maksimowska- 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
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