Barbara Gowdy, Little Sister
巴巴拉?高迪《小妹妹》

Gowdy is a magical storyteller. In her latest novel, Rose Bowan, who manages her family's cinema in Toronto, begins to experience out-of-body episodes triggered by thunderstorms. She becomes another person – Harriet Smith – and experiences everything Harriet does through her own body, from sharper eyesight to satisfying sex. Harriet is a real person; Rose tracks her, while her boyfriend Victor, a meteorologist, helps research her possible condition – and forecasts weeks of storms ahead. Fiona, her mother, is falling into dementia – losing herself while Rose is "finding another self". When Harriet begins to resemble her sister Ava, who died in an accident when they were young, Rose is pulled into a vortex of memory. Little Sister is a gem, powered by Gowdy's incredible fabulist imagination. (Credit: Tin House)
高迪是一名神奇的故事敘述者。在她最新的小說(shuō)《小妹妹》中，羅絲?柏萬(wàn)在多倫多管理家族的電影院，她開(kāi)始因?yàn)槔子晏鞖舛霈F(xiàn)靈魂出竅的經(jīng)歷。她成為另一個(gè)人——哈麗特?史密斯，從更加清晰的視力到性滿足，羅絲在哈麗特的身體里體驗(yàn)了她所做的一切。哈麗特是真實(shí)存在的人；羅絲開(kāi)始追蹤哈麗特，而她的男朋友——?dú)庀髮W(xué)家維克多幫她研究可能出現(xiàn)這種情況的原因，并提前數(shù)周預(yù)測(cè)暴風(fēng)雨天氣。在羅絲“尋找另一個(gè)自我”時(shí)，她的母親菲奧娜得了老年癡呆，正在“喪失自我”。哈麗特的妹妹小時(shí)候死于一場(chǎng)意外，當(dāng)哈麗特長(zhǎng)得開(kāi)始像妹妹時(shí)，羅絲被卷入一場(chǎng)記憶的漩渦。高迪預(yù)言家般驚人的想象力讓《小妹妹》成為一部佳作。（來(lái)源：Tin House）