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Articles by Kate Braid
The Erotics of Cutting Grass
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Books that Your Mother will Love
Finding Flora is up for giveaway until the end of May! Head to our giveaways page for your chance to win, and to check out all the other books up for grabs. ***** Finding Flora is a rollicking historical novel set in turn-of-the-century Alberta about a young woman on the run from her abusive husband who uses a legal loophole to claim a homestead in the Wild West—perfect for fans of Outlawed and The Giver of Stars.
My hasty heart
I wake in the night feeling a strangeness about my heart, breathless, as if I’ve just climbed a mountain. But how is this possible? I’m young and healthy and the steadiness of the heart is a given, no? Like digestion, like dreaming. So how is it possible I feel this vague but powerful unease? The heart is a pump that circulates blood. The generator for this pump is a built-in pacemaker that sends out electrical impulses, causing the heart’s four chambers to contract and relax in a coordinated way.
A Sense of Place: THE BIRTH YARD Book List
The Birth Yard embodies a sense of place that I, as a woman, have always felt inside. I tried to recreate that sense—the internal anxious pang of walking home alone at night with keys between my knuckles, or that feeling of fearfulness when I turned on the news and was told my body was not mine by white right-wing politicians, etc.—into an external reality, "the Den," a cult that controls women’s bodies, fertility, their social and intellectual lives.
Women Who Work | The 49th Shelf
Around five o’clock on a Sunday afternoon, as I lounged on my bed with The Catcher in the Rye, someone’s car blasted out of our driveway like a hot rod. I rushed to the window just in time to see our blue Studebaker tear down the street, my mother at the wheel. Bound for points unknown, an hour before dinner. In the kitchen she’d left a ghost meal. A mound of peeled apples, turning brown. A pastry blender clogged with shortening.
Losing the Mirror
[Editor's note: This is one of three Tyee excerpts from The Summer Book, a collection of essays by 24 B.C. writers — the perfect way to laze away a hazy August day. Enjoy! And thanks to Mother Tongue Publishing for permission.] The ferry is late, so I don’t arrive at the cabin until mid-afternoon. By then I’m ravenous, but not just for food.
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