Gripping new novel looks at how a violent event gives a woman her life

Vancouver writer Rhea Tregebov retired from her teaching job in the UBC creative writing program a few years ago. It didn’t last long.So now the associate professor emerita of creative writing and the author of the acclaimed and award-winning novel The Knife Sharpener’s Bell teaches a class or two and advises on thesis work. The rest of her time she focuses on her own writing.

The novel focuses on a young woman in the early 1980s. Sarah is the youngest of three sisters and she just can’t seem to get it together. At 25 she is in Toronto and is aimlessly bobbing along like a leaf in a rainstorm. Her decision-making relies heavily on a lucky coin she flips in her pocket. With no clear path she reluctantly agrees to accompany the boyfriend she doesn’t seem to want on an extended work trip to Paris.

“I’ve said that the book is trying to ascertain the humanity in inhumanity. And I needed Laila as a character in there because Laila is sort of knee-jerk anti-Semitic,” said Tregebov. “Her personal history is tremendously affected by generational trauma. She has never met a Jew and it is out of ignorance that hatred arises.”“I love them going in circles, they keep passing each other in Paris, then they intersect,” said Tregebov.

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