Chez Ami
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Author |
| Location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Introduction | Ami Sands Brodoff is an award-winning fiction and features writer. Her new novel, The White Space Between is the winner of the 2009 Canadian Jewish Book Award. It’s a gripping mother-daughter story centering on the reverberations of the Holocaust in the present. It’s also a love song to Montreal, Ami’s adopted home city, and a love story. Ami has also published a volume of stories, Bloodknots, about families on the edge, the ties that bind people together and those that unravel without warning. Her first novel, Can You See Me?, is a powerful psychodrama portraying schizophrenia from the inside out, a disease with which a beloved family member of Ami’s struggles. She served as a Director on the Board of The Quebec Writers' Federation and frequently teaches creative writing workshops. Ami has received fellowships to Yaddo,the VCCA, as well as many others throughout the world. She grew up in New York and now makes her home in Montreal, Quebec with her husband, children, and Bernese mountain dog. Ami is at work on a new novel, Exisle. Check this blog or her website for news of upcoming events. |
| Favorite movies | The English Patient, Sons & Lovers - original version, The Leopard, Midnight Cowbow, Brokeback Mountain |
| Favorite music | Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, Radiohead, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis |
| Favorite books | Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Kafka, Sons & Lovers, Women in love, Dickens, Anna Karenina |