What Remains of Elsie Jane

What Remains of Elsie Jane is The Year of Magical Thinking for weirdos, examining the surreal nature of cumulative and complicated grief through the lens of an eccentric young mother The tone is at turns heartbreaking and darkly funny, brimming with bizarre moments and deadpan humour and imaginative description Author based the novel on her experience of losing her partner to a drug overdose and parenting through the grief and stigma Author works as a project manager collaborating on public health strategies to mitigate the drug poisoning crisis Author hometown: Nanaimo, B.C.