This is an outstanding book on many levels. The body of a woman is found frozen in the snow. As in all Badami's books, the theme is the immigrant experience in Canada and this one also features an abusive husband and the Canadian winter.
I heard Badami interviewed on CBC on this book, and she says she had not heard of or read Sinclair Ross's The Painted Room, a short story, and a Canadian definitive.
If you have not read this author before, you must.
Her previous books (all great):
Tamarind Mem
The Hero's Walk
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call
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