Alice Zorn: 3 books

These are short stories about people who harbour relics from their past: a postcard from Vienna, the cigarette burns that scar a boy's chest, a stolen USB pen, blue concentration camp numbers tattooed on a forearm, a man's sense of his own body as HIV overtakes him. Alice Zorn's remarkable debut collection...

Joelle is about to lose her husband Marc, who has become obsessed with Ketia, a young Haitian woman. Ketia lies to her family to conceal her liaison with Marc. Joelle’s friend Diane does not realize that her boyfriend Nazim has never told his Muslim family in Morocco about her. Then Nazim gets a...

A searing and compassionate portrayal of family members who lose loved ones to depression, suicide, or kidnapping Author lost her own sister to suicide and writes from a place of painfully true experience The lives of the three main characters are deftly interwoven, and Zorn leaves a trail of breadcrumbs...