Damselfish

By Susan Ouriou

Susan Ouriou's first novel explores a season in the life of three women, two sisters - on an artist, the other a codemaker - and their mother. The women have made their separate ways from Montreal to Mexico, the land of their father and husband gone missing ten years ago. Their reunion is a grudging one and their love often aching, uncertain, and flawed. The women's family resembles that of the damselfish, a family of dear enemies where each member jealously guards its own patch of coral reef yet unites with the others to stave off incursions from the outside. A valiant, yet too often futile effort, since, like the damselfish, these women are without defences or camouflage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894852052
• ISBN13: 9781894852050
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"