Radium Girl
READING AGE 12+
Radium Girl is a collection full of dark wonder where Sofi Papamarko explores the boundaries of love, death, loneliness and justice. In these twelve deft stories, we are introduced to a cast of unforgettable characters: Margie and Lu, teenaged conjoined twins; Rosie who cruises funerals; Pete the predatory magician; the subconscious mind of Marie Curie; Elda the Radium Girl and many more. These are magical stories; they twist and turn in unexpected ways, leaving the reader sometimes shocked, sometimes delighted and often breathless. With pitch-perfect writing, Papamarko shows us how human beings cope, break and triumph in the face of often unbearable circumstances.
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Sofi Papamarko’s writing has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette, Reader’s Digest, Chatelaine, Flare, The Walrus, the Huffington Post, Exclaim!, Salon and many other publications, both living and dead. Her short fiction has been published in Taddle Creek, Maisonneuve and Room. She lives in Toronto with h……
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