Body Trade
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Body Trade weaves together two stories of survival. The main narrative follows Rosie and Tanya, two young Canadian women who decide to leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California, Mexico and Central America.
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Margaret Macpherson is a writer and teacher, originally from Canada's Northwest Territiories. She holds a MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and has worked as an essayist and journalist in Halifax, Bermuda and Vancouver. She is a published poet and the author of four non-fiction books, including the award-winning Nellie McClung: Voice for the Voiceless. Both her debut short-story collection, Perilous Departures, and her first novel, Released, were finalists for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher. Her seventh book, the novel Body Trade, was the winner of the 2012 NorthWords Prize.