Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik
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Carolyn Marie Souaid
Carolyn Marie Souaid has been writing and publishing poetry for over 20 years. The author of six books and the winner of the David McKeen Award for her first collection, Swimming into the Light, she has also been shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Prize and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Much of her work deals with the bridging of worlds; the difficulty, perhaps the impossibility of it, but the necessity of the struggle. She has toured her work across Canada and in France. Since the 1990s, she has been a key figure on the Montreal literary scene, having co-produced two major local events, Poetry in Motion (the poetry-on-the-buses project) and the Circus of Words / Cirque des mots, a multidisciplinary, multilingual cabaret focusing on the "theatre" of poetry. Souaid is a founding member and editor of Poetry Quebec, an online magazine focusing on the English language poets and poetry of Quebec.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This 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.