Acknowledgments
This book wouldn’t have been possible without the assistance and support of many people, so I will try to thank them all here: First, to Margie Wolfe, Kathryn Cole, Carolyn Jackson, Melissa Kaita, Emma Rodgers, and the staff of Second Story Press for believing in the story and bringing it to publication; and to Lana Popovic, for indefatigably advocating on the book’s behalf.
Thanks also to Dr. Vivian Glenns and the staff at North York General Hospital’s Breast Cancer Care program and Sunnybrook Hospital’s radiation oncology department for helping my mother through breast cancer, and for working tirelessly in a health care system that often undervalues your work. We all owe you a great debt.
To my mother, Karen Gold, who wasn’t allowed to read drafts of this manuscript because I didn’t want to make her cry—thank you for inspiring me to write this story, and for the lifetime of steadfast support and belief in me that makes my writing possible. Thank you as well to my father, Howard Gold, for the love and support you can always be relied on to provide, and for bragging about me to friends, colleagues, and strangers you encounter in elevators.
Thanks to Dara Laxer and Cheryl Ellison for your friendship, counsel, and cheerleading, and to Paul and Jess Gold and Michael and Deborah Goodman for always being interested in and supportive of my work. Thanks too to my colleague Adam Farber, who has spent ten years listening to me vent, and who is sure he gave me some ideas for this book.
Finally, thank you to my husband Adam Goodman, and our children Teddy and Violet, for everything from inspiring me to making time for me to write. It’s you guys who make me want to keep going, to be the best person I can be. Thank you for being yourselves; you are the loves of my life.
About the Author
Jennifer Gold is a lawyer and mother of two. She is the author of the YA novels Soldier Doll and Undiscovered Country. A history buff, she also has degrees in psychology, law, and public health. She lives in Toronto with her family. Visit her online at www.jennifergold.ca.
Dedication
For Teddy and Violet
Copyright
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Gold, Jennifer, author
Undiscovered country / by Jennifer Gold.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77260-031-5 (paperback).
—ISBN 978-1-77260-032-2 (epub)
I. Title.
PS8613.O4317U53 2017 jC813'.6 C2016-907247-9
Copyright © 2017 by Jennifer Gold
Editors: Patricia Kennedy and Carolyn Jackson
Design by Melissa Kaita
Cover photos © iStockphoto
Printed and bound in Canada
Second Story Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the
Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for our
publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the
Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.
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Second Story Press
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