Strange Places

Is This an Illness or an Accident? has arrived

Posted by Daniela Elza on Aug 05 2025

My debut essay/memoir collection is here. And she is beautiful. It only took 10 years to write since the first essay I was asked to write for a book. I kept going. I love the cover – my younger son designed it. The photo has accompanied me for years in these fractured and fragmented times.

Suddenly the essays on immigration, on where one is from, on work, and housing, on making sense of war stories in my family, or occupying universities and banning words became relevant all over again. Travel, and food, and family all came forward to be wrangled with and made sense of. And then, how does one sustain hope in all this? or How do we dream up a better future?  Much of this came together in the book.

Thank you, Caitlin Press and the whole hard working team there, for getting this baby out into the world.

The MAIN launch will be on September 24th, at the Teck Gallery, SFU downtown. More info to come soon.

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