Ann-Marie MacDonald, Adult Onset

Neta Gordon (Brock University)

Ed. by Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

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First circulation or publication 2014

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In the spring of 2014, months before the publication of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s third novel,

Adult Onset

, the author penned a speech for The Law Society of Upper Canada, which was later turned into an article for

The Globe and Mail

. In that article, MacDonald meditates on two issues: first, on her position as a lesbian woman, legally married and co-parent to an eleven-year-old child; and, second, on what she calls the “Roadrunner-Wile E. Coyote-sized canyon” between her own parents’ early angry response to the news that she was gay and their current attitude of proud support (MacDonald, “Love”). Some of the details in the article, including a description of her mother’s “curses” and her father’s “silence and ice”, as well as of a more recent and approving email from…

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Citation: Gordon, Neta. "Adult Onset". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 January 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38939, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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