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We inherit plots... There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

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The world is crammed with messages. We'll never have time to read them all.

Janette Turner Hospital

That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

Janette Turner Hospital

Janette Turner Hospital

Janette Turner Hospital

Born: November 12, 1942 (age 83)

Bio: Janette Turner Hospital is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the US, principally Boston, Kingston and Columbia.

Known for:

Orpheus Lost (2007)
Due preparations for the plague (2003)
The Ivory Swing (1982)
The Last Magician (1992)
The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (1983)

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