Launch for Sailor Girl by Sheree-Lee Olson

So how'd a nice girl like you end up on a freighter?'

`You're assuming I'm nice.'

The Porcupine's Quill and Sheree-Lee Olson invite you to celebrate the launch of the novel Sailor Girl by Sheree-Lee Olson. At Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay Street, Toronto (south of Queen). Tuesday, June 10 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

About Sailor Girl:
Summer, 1981. On the run from a violent boyfriend, nineteen-year-old art student Kate McLeod packs up her camera and her vodka and signs on to an ancient Great Lakes grain boat.

The word so far...

Katherine Govier (author of Three Views of Crystal Water): `Olson understands the appeal of tough sex and wide open water. She's got a great ear, too. Here is a book about a girl rebel written in prose that cuts to the quick.'

Leah McLaren (author of The Continuity Girl): `Finally a Canlit heroine who shows us that girls can drink like fish, work like dogs, swear like sailors and still be good to the bone.'

Steven Heighton (author of The Shadow Boxer): `A powerful debut that depicts the commotion and raw intensity of youth, and - without ever romanticizing - captures the romance of the sweetwater seas, those "Great Lakes like giant footprints climbing to the centre of the continent." Hardly a page passes without a fresh image or metaphor, a striking phrase or insight - and insight above all, because this is an honest novel. And one to savour.'