Award-winning author KIM ECHLIN lives in Toronto. She is the author of Elephant Winter and Dagmar's Daughter, and her third novel, The Disappeared, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction and was published in 20 countries. Her most recent novel Under the Visible Life was critically acclaimed, endorsed by Khaled Hosseini and declared "nothing short of a masterpiece" by Quill & Quire.
“Jazz is blood, bone and spirit in Kim Echlin's wonderful
novel. Under the Visible Life is as heady and unexpected
as a Coltrane riff, as lush as life itself.” —Esi Edugyan, author
of Half-Blood Blues
“Engrossing . . . the novel carries readers through an impressive
cavalcade of personal and societal changes. Echlin is that rare
writer who can evoke the joy of playing and listening to music
without resorting to overly abstract language or fussy
metaphors.” —Toronto Star
“Echlin's musical novel hits the right notes . . . Echlin is a
wonderful storyteller, and has created two strong characters who
have to battle far too many obstacles trying to live fulfilling
lives.” —Winnipeg Free Press
“Her prose is always arresting: plain and vigorous, laconic and
sensual, a language of resistance, dreaming of female freedom.”
—The Independent
“Echlin . . . delivers a clinic on how to conjure emotions readers
didn't even know they had. Not since The Diviners has a Canadian
novel explored the complex, messy, and sacrificial nature of
creative self-actualization with such skill . . . Readers will
revel in every charged scene, every breathtaking reversal, every
hard-earned moment of wisdom that this devastating novel delivers .
. . This book is nothing short of a masterpiece.” —Quill & Quire
(starred review)
“[Echlin's] talent is on full display in this lyrical, exciting
story . . . Echlin's excellent novel introduces two complex women
who sometimes succeed and sometimes suffer, and whose stories are
moving from start to finish.” —Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
“The sweaty clubs are vividly evoked, the music almost rising
off the page. Rather than a study of stardom, the novel turns a
spotlight on the jobbing players, the ranks of professional
musicians who gamely keep on swinging but who never get the big
breaks. It’s all the more effective – and poignant – for that.”
—The Guardian
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