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Huck Finn got to light out, and in doing so invent his future. For boys who run away, the road is an adventure, for girls it is often a more perilous place. In contemporary literature, women on the run face unique hardships, many of which have to do with suffocating families, illicit sex, and establishing a sense of self. Gil Adamson's The Outlander tells the story of Mary, a young woman forced into marriage who becomes "a widow by her own hand", on the run in the Canadian Rockies. In Alligator, Lisa Moore's novel, two women struggle to make their way in the world: sassy Colleen is an eco-terrorist determined to escape small town Newfoundland, while her aunt tries to stay alive long enough to make a film. In all of Susanna Moore's novels, women negotiate twilight worlds of sex and identity, be it a steamy Hawai'i in Sleeping Beauties, colonial India in One Last Look, or prison in The Big Girls. Join these three novelists in conversation with Ingrid Horrocks on why we call women "bad girls".
Susanna Moore image: Lulu Sylbert
Gil Adamson image: Krista Ellis
Lisa Moore image: Barbara Stoneham
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- Writers Upfront: Gil Adamson
- Writers Upfront: Susanna Moore
- Writers Upfront: Lisa Moore
- Gala Opening
- Writers Upfront: Telling Stories
