Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge the assistance of the Carol Shields Writer in Residence Programme at the University of Winnipeg, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Canada Council for the Arts during the writing of this novel.
And a special thanks to Anne Collins for asking all the right questions.
SANDRA BIRDSELL, among Canada’s finest fiction writers, was born in Manitoba, and lived for many years in Winnipeg. Her novel The Russländer was nominated for the Giller Prize, and her bestselling novel Children of the Day was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction. She is also the author of three collections of short stories, among other works. She lives in Regina.
Copyright © 2010 Sandra Birdsell
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Birdsell, Sandra, 1942–
Waiting for Joe / Sandra Birdsell.
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