Carolyn Marie Souaid

This is a story of an Syrian-born Montrealer -- 23-year-old Yasmeen Haddad -- who moves to Nunavik (Northern Quebec) to teach Inuit children. Once there, she becomes immersed in life in a remote community, and falls in love with an Inuit man -- Joanasi Maqaittik -- who works at the local radio station. The author has brought us a tale of passion, obsession and pushing the limits of our own boundaries to make a relationship work. And, she has successfully integrated this with the story of the isolation, alcoholism, racism and the threat of loss of culture faced by many Aboriginal/Inuit communities. The story is often violent and the characters are complex -- she captures the psyche of Yasmeen especially well, I thought. This story kept me engaged days after I'd finished reading.… (meer)

Again and again I am impressed with books whose writer’s either share a small moment with me that I ponder upon in my own life OR make me question the world around me. Isn’t that what good literature is suppose to do? And why am i coming across these observations now in my life (As opposed to my younger days?) Those are some of the quandaries that perplexed my mind as I read Carolyn Marie Souaid’s collection entitled This World We Invented.

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