This is an intense study of a reluctant mother and her daughter who, despite recurrent depression (she prefers the term “melancholia”), yearns to connect with the parents she never knew. Read more...
The Art of Salvage is one of those novels which haunts the reader. Read more...
Booklist January 1 – 15, 2007
Imagine that your birth mother gave you away to her own mother and then maintained a strict distance from you. How would you feel? Read more...
The Globe & Mail September 2006
It is hard not to see ourselves in these pages. Sometimes we turn a page quickly, and at others we stay a while. A paragraph reread. Theis gives us something to think about. Besides, she's got it in spades. I mean, she can write. I wish I could just reprint pages 98-100, but my word count says otherwise, so here goes, just a little taste of it. Read more...
Saskatoon StarPhoenix Saturday August 5, 2006
The Art of Salvage, by Saskatoon author Leona Theis, opens with a young woman named Amber watching the demolition of a house in which she used to live. She is able to salvage only a doorbell plate before the house comes down. Read more...
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