Dear Librarians: A Letter from Vauhini Vara, Author of Searches

“Like a lot of authors, I grew up at the library. One of my first memories is of quietly reading at my local library in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan—I guess I was around four—when a pair of ladies saw me and asked if I was really reading the words or just looking at the pictures. I was reading, I told them.”

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Dear Librarians: A Letter from Nussaibah Younis, Author of Fundamentally

“I have spent an absurd proportion of my life in the library. My mother used to take me and my four siblings to the library every week—religiously. She did everything religiously. Especially religion. At the library we would each pick out four or five books, and mum would inspect them to ensure we hadn’t selected anything scandalous, before letting us check them out.”

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