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The Raw Light of Morning
***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD - WINNER***
The Raw Light of Morning is a powerful debut novel about women and children finding humour and love in the aftermath of domestic violence.
Fourteen-year-old Laurel Long does something unimaginable. In a house at the back end of Woods Road, she commits an act of violence that alters the course of her life. Laurel finds herself living in Stephenville, a small town on Newfoundland's west coast, trapped in a system of poverty and generational neglect, haunted by trauma. Laurel needs a fresh start, and education is her ticket out, but when her past starts to catch up with her, she must decide how far she will go to protect herself and the ones she loves.
Book Details
- Publisher: Breakwater Books
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2022
- Pages: 248
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.84in - 7.09in - 0.32in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9781550819465
- Categories: • Literary• Feminist• Women
About the Author
Shelly Kawaja's writing has appeared in several journals and literary magazines, such as the Humber Literary Review, the Dalhousie Review, Postcolonial Text, and PACE. Her short story "Shotgun" won the gritLit 2020 fiction contest. Shelly is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Humber School for Writers and is a current MFA candidate in the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia. She lives in Corner Brook with her family.
Praise for this book
". . . so real and powerful. The themes of the book are a reality for far too many people . . ."
- Consumed by Ink - 20230324"This debut novel is gripping, spot-on in detail and tone, visceral and lovely. Skillfully paced, the traumatic opening scenes never overwhelm the ensuing action and developments, and what follows is engrossing, authentic and never too on-the-nose."
- The Telegram - 20221231"An unflinching look at trauma and the silence that follows, The Raw Light of Morning is a coming-of-age story that defies false innocence, and tells the truth instead. Kawaja will leave you tender and bruised . . . but also hopeful. Just the book we need in these times."
- Elisabeth de Mariaffi - author of The Retreat