We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky
“[T]he breezy summer read [you] need to escape to a different time and place.” —The Globe and Mail
An epic, boundary-pushing tale of five young women rebelling against an era that relies on their submission, from the acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James.
During the golden age of the Roman Empire, five girls enjoy a modest childhood in their small Portuguese village. They race each other through lemon orchards and pick fresh fruit for the commander who overlooks his people from a large house on the hill. Though the girls are all raised by different families, there is one thing they know without a doubt: they are sisters.
What they don’t know is that their simple existence is about…
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August 8, 2023Raised in Alberta, EMMA HOOPER is a musician and writer. Her debut novel, Etta and Otto and Russell and James, was an international bestseller and was published in twenty-four countries. Our Homesick Songs, her second novel, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2018. As a musician she performs as solo artist Waitress for the Bees, a project which earned her a Finnish Cultural Knighthood. She has also performed with Peter Gabriel, The Heavy, her string quartet Red Carousel, and numerous others. She now lives in the soft green of England’s South-West, but comes home to Canada to cross-country ski as much as she can.