Sentimentalists

Johanna Skibsrud is the author of The Sentimentalists, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and This Will Be Difficult to Explain, as well as two poetry collections. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

"As a poet, [JohannaSkibsrud] knows how to pare a story down to its essence and infuse every threadwith meaning. . . . The tale is so true and poignant that, as in the momentwhen the narrator flew over the water, readers, too, will want to stay there‘as long as possible.’"