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Writing by adult children about the aging parents they care for — a genre likely to expand in the coming decades as the old exceed the young — is marked by a twinned consciousness. Written out of the exigencies of the present as much as those of the past, it strains to acknowledge one’s parents as people yet wants to remain true to one’s own experience of those people as parents.

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, won the  Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as a Canadian Jewish Literary Award. It was also a finalist for both the Governor Generals Award for fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Hamilton, Ont. The Lover, the Lake is a novel by Virginia Pésémapeo Bordeleau (pictured), translated by Susan Ouriou.(Freehand Books) The Lover, the Lake was a sensation when it was originally published in French. Now available in English,  The Lover, the Lake is a celebration of Ind...