WHAT WE ONCE BELIEVED

Summer, 1971. While women deman equality, protests erupt over the Vietnam War, and peace activits march, adolescent Maybe Collins' life in quiet Oak Bay is upended by the appearance of her mother, who disappeared nine years earlier.

With Maybe's mother's return comes another surprise: she's written a best-selling memoir called THE OTHER MOTHER, about motherhood and Women's Liberation, which gives only passing reference to Maybe's existence. Camille, now an acclaimed author, is distant and confounding, and Maybe tries to piece together her mother's life. Why she left, the truth behind her famous memoir, and the future of their fractured relationship.

Andrea Macpherson is a UBC MFA graduate. Her fiction and poetry have been widely published. She is the author of the novels Beyond the Blues and When She was Electric