Natalie Lim

3 weeks ago | 49thshelf.com | Natalie Lim |Anna Veprinska |Trevor Corkum

When I was invited to put together a list of Canadian books for 49th Shelf, I had trouble deciding what the theme of my list should be. I knew I wanted it to be related in some way to my debut novel, Lake Burntshore, set at a fictional Jewish summer camp in the Muskoka region of Ontario, but beyond that I couldn’t decide. Jewish Canadian fiction? Novels about summer camp? Novels about Israel/Palestine? Books on the settler colonial encounter?

1 month ago | sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler |Natalie Lim

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI read a poem today about a couple on a winter morning, one baking bread, the other shovelling snow,and imagined us for the first timein a different season. saw myself kneading the doughwith both hands. if dough is ready,it springs back when you touch it,stretches thin without breaking –let me shut the door behind you,take the shovel, brush the snowfrom your beard, scarf, shoulders.