Return Stroke

By Dora Dueck

These personal essays lyrically engage with a wide range of ideas, from the ethical quandaries of biography to early experiences of reading to a child’s coming-out. The collection’s final section is a probing and moving memoir of the author’s time in Paraguay in the 1980s. Whether examining the limitations of remembering or telling beautifully of her late husband’s final days, Dora Dueck’s creative non-fiction seeks to do the very most that can be asked of any book: tell the truth, and tell it well.