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The singing forest / Judith McCormack.
In attempting to bring a suspected war criminal to justice, a Toronto lawyer wrestles with power, accountability, and her Jewish identity. Lyrical and wrenching by turns, 'The Singing Forest' is a profound investigation of memory, truth, and the stories that tell us who we are. Judith McCormack lives in Toronto, ON.
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- ISBN: 9781771964319 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 297 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Windsor, ON : Biblioasis, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | Deportation > Fiction. Justice > Fiction. Mass burials > Fiction. War criminals > Fiction. Belarus > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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Judith McCormack was born in Evanston, and grew up in Toronto, with several years in Montreal and Vancouver. She is Jewish through her mother, and her maternal grandparents came from Belarus and Lithuania, with her father contributing his Scots-Irish heritage. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Writersâ Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writersâ Fiction Prize, the Journey Prize and the Amazon First Novel Award, and her stories have appeared in the Harvard Review, Descant, The Fiddlehead, Coming Attractions and Best Canadian Stories. She also has several law degrees, which first introduced her to story-telling, and she is a recipient of the Law Society Medal and The Guthrie Award for access to justice.
