Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaw multidisciplinary artist and writer. Her debut nonfiction collection, Nothing Will Be Different, is forthcoming in the fall of 2021 with Dundurn Press.
April 23, 2021
Ghost Face is Greg Santos’ fourth book of poetry. I interpreted it as a loose narrative in verse, divided into three parts – “I/You,” "Saudade," and “Ode to Joy.” It’s a story that begins with a pregnant teenage girl escaping the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. It then follows her child, adopted by a family descended from Portuguese and Spanish immigrants, as he attempts to negotiate the complex cruelties and blessings of history, family, and identity.