Bookworm, no. 18

Fiction by Buffy Cram. Non-fiction by Elana Wolff. George Elliott Clarke remembers JFK. The Scotiabank Giller Prize. Inside the December issue.

Nov 21, 2023

∙ Paid

Just the Two of Us

Once Upon an Effing Time
Buffy Cram
Douglas & McIntyre
320 pages, softcover and ebook

Buffy Cram’s debut novel, Once Upon an Effing Time, depicts a cult survivor’s traumatic upbringing and recovery. The tale begins in 1980, with the protagonist, Elizabeth, living in a Vancouver halfway house. The plot alternates between the struggling nine…

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