PreviewsSharon Butala
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How to Breathe Water
Sharon Butala
In 2021, after a year of pandemic isolation and at the age of 80, Butala joins a friend on a road trip from Calgary to Winnipeg, eager to revisit the Prairies one more time, especially the area in Saskatchewan where she ranched with her husband. Along the way, the sites they visit prompt her to unearth her personal history – her difficult childhood, buried traumas, and complicated relationships.
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Leaving Wisdom
Sharon Butala
Judith, a just-retired social worker and mother of four daughters, suffers a debilitating concussion and leaves Calgary to return to Wisdom, Saskatchewan, near the farm where she grew up. There she uncovers family secrets and maybe even a crime next door, but most importantly, she awakens to the complex shadows left by the Second World War and the Holocaust.
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Season of Fury and Wonder
Sharon Butala
These stories, which could be called “crone lit,” present the lives of old women, women with experience who have developed opinions and come to conclusions about what it all amounts to. At the same time, the stories pay tribute to other classic works of fiction that Butala has admired.
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This Strange Visible Air
Essays on Aging and the Writing Life
Sharon Butala
Butala brings sharp observations and candid insights to these reflective and informative essays about growing old and how society fails the elderly. She writes about ageism and loneliness, friendships and family, health challenges and failing memory, in all their complexities.
