Maggie Helwig interviewed by The Danforth Review

Maggie Helwig, author of Girls Fall Down, was recently interviewed by The Danforth Review's Leanna McLennan about Toronto, the subway system and the role of the 'witness' in Girls Fall Down:<!--newline--><!--newline-->www.danforthreview.com/features/interviews/maggie_helwig.htm<!--newline--><!--newline-->LM: Toronto features prominently in your novel, which takes the reader (often via public transit) through various neighbourhoods in Toronto. What kind of portrait of Toronto were you aiming to create?<!--newline--><!--newline-->MH: I'm not sure it's so much that I was aiming to create a particular kind of portrait; though I guess it's almost taken for granted that I have a pretty dark sensibility, so it was going to come out as a darker and more strange Toronto than some others might create. But I was really just trying to work with some of the things about Toronto that interest me, and places that have particular meanings for me. Something like the Out of the Cold program for the homeless at the church on College Street isn't there so much to make a specific point as because it happens to be a major part of my own life in the city; though it is also about ways that people live together, how the city as a social body succeeds or fails.<!--newline--><!--newline-->