My Brilliant Careerism, part XIV

"The source of a writer’s potency is mysterious, unpredictable. For novelist Peter Behrens, the hunt was long and circular, beginning with his youthful flight from a middle-class upbringing in Montreal, followed by decades when he did everything else but remember the past, until it was time to double back and sift through family lore for two magnificent novels that have established him on the international literary map..."
Globe & Mail (Toronto)

p.s. the TL cover photo, by Jarrod McCabe, was part of a road trip series posted on AL in Dec 2011-January 2012