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Marina Endicott 

Marina Endicott’s much-celebrated novels include Good to a Fault, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean and was a finalist for The Scotiabank Giller Prize; The Little Shadows, long-listed for the Giller and short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award; and Close to Hugh, also long-listed for the Giller and named a CBC Best Book of 2015. Her 2020 novel The Difference won the City of Edmonton Robert Kroetsch Prize. The Observer won Book of the Year at the 2024 Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her stories, essays, poems, and novels have been published internationally. Endicott lives in Saskatoon.

Website: marinaendicott.com
Instagram/Threads: @marinaendicott

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The Observer 

When Julia arrives in Medway, accompanying her beloved Hardy on his first posting as an RCMP constable, she tries to explain her new life to old friends from the city, but can find no shared vocabulary to convey this rural reality, let alone police life. As Hardy disappears into long days at work, Julia takes a job as editor of the local newspaper, the Observer. Interviewing people to compose a view of the town each week, she gathers knowledge of the community’s surface joys and sorrows; meanwhile, Hardy is immersed in violence and loss, and Julia can only witness his increasing exhaustion. At first this new life together is an adventure, but as in all the best stories, time darkens and deepens it.

Grounded in Marina Endicott’s own experience in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, The Observer is an essential story from one of our most beloved storytellers. Endicott writes with the sure pacing and insight of a master novelist, piecing haunting details into a quietly devastating revelation of the fragility of life and law in a tightknit community.

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