Canadian Authors Engel and Monro

Reading Marian Engel's THE GLASSY SEA after just finishing Alice Monro's TOO MUCH HAPPINESS. A quote I love from Engel: Time wins me away from the diamond of the soul. Said in reference to her character's spiritual experience while becoming a nun. Reading these two Canadian authors back to back paints a portrait of what it meant to be a young girl growing up in Canada between the Wars against a landscape of not just the harsh winters, but also the sweet, seductive brevity of summer. More Quotes from The Glassy Sea: "Life, I decided, is a sentence between brackets: these brackets must be seen to contain what is, not what might have been." and "If there's no absolute truth, you might as well go for what you want."