![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The brief shift to another country is not so terribly jarring given that we face precisely the same cost cutting mania here. It’s a brief reminiscence from Miriam Toews about watching her mother enter the library then settle herself by a sunny window and fall asleep. Although, the book addresses the situation in the UK, Smith includes one interpolation from the Canadian context coincidentally concerning a library in Toronto. Interpolated between the stories, we find statements by ordinary members of the public reflecting on what libraries have done for them and how those libraries have enhanced their communities. In 2015, Ali Smith compiled a collection of short stories as a response to the UK’s cost cutting measures that targeted its public library system. ![]()
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