![]() ![]() ![]() The novel also engages with ideas about university education. So Much Love was born from undergraduate discussions about poet Gwendolyn MacEwen – specifically, from Rosenblum’s discomfort with conflations of MacEwen’s work and the circumstances of her early death, which highlighted how a victim’s voice gets lost in tragedy. Her followup, The Big Dream, is a collection of linked stories that showed her how a book’s parts could work as a whole. To that end, Rosenblum completed U of T’s creative writing master’s program, working with mentor Leon Rooke on her award-winning short story collection, Once. ![]() “I had to wait until I was a good enough writer to write it,” she explains. Rosenblum started it in 2000, but the structure wasn’t working. It’s the intriguing premise for So Much Love, by Rebecca Rosenblum (MA 2007), a novel that – with a huge cast of characters and interweaving stories – took its author many years to write. A woman’s disappearance sends shock waves through her university town because of its parallels to the murder years before of a much-mythologized poet in an act of domestic violence. ![]()
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