Women and the environment

Abstract

lived on in memory for weeks after reading. Both stories describe young girls in a first confrontation with mortality and both capture the fear, the rejection, and the struggles for comprehension of an incomprehensible world that mark our paths toward aduIthood. Most of the stories are about Canadians travelling in Europe, and they catch well the atmosphere of passage through foreign places. The journeys are of course mostly metaphors for change, for growth, for sudden revelations-as good stories often are. If these stories left anything to be desired, it was for a more empathetic engagement with the lives of the characters. Kulyk Keefer maintains a certain academic, clinical distance from her travelling ladies, perhaps most strikingly in Isola Bella, and this detachment can occasionally insulate the reader from the real flesh and blood of her characters and leave us wishing we cared more about their fates

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