Dorothy Ellen Palmer in Torontoist

Today's Torontoist features a conversation between Erin Balser and Coach House author Dorothy Ellen Palmer. Click here to find out what Dorothy has to say about her hot-off-the-presses debut novel, When Fenelon Falls.

'Torontoist: Give us your one-sentence pitch for the new book, When Fenelon Falls.

Dorothy Ellen Palmer: When Fenelon Falls is the very Canadian story of a hurricane, a bastard, and a bear—in the summer of 1969—when 14-year-old disabled bastard and genius Jordan May March imagines one hundred versions of her illicit conception on the night in 1954 when Hurricane Hazel tore Toronto to shreds, and in real time, spends the summer of the moon landing and Woodstock in cottage country, plotting to free Yogi, a bear caged at the top of March Road. That really is one sentence!'