Onion Man

by Mockler, Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9781926639390
• ISBN10: 1926639391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Tightrope Books, Inc.

Summary

In the late 1980s of London, Ontarioa time in Canada when the recession lay like a lead weight on the shoulders of young people, leaving the future bleakan eighteen-year-old girl is working for the summer at a corn canning factory. Her story is told through a series of masterfully-sculpted linked poems, following her relationship with her boyfriend, her alcoholic mother, her terminally-ill grandfather, the factory job, and the man who every night "peels an onion and eats it as if it were an apple." The Onion Man doesn't speak English and is tormented by the other workers, and ater his son dies, he commits suicide at the factory. The girl finds his body and the traumatic event prompts her to rethink the direction of her life.

Author Biography

Kathryn Mockler is a writer who has been published in the Montreal Prize Longlist Anthology, and in magazines that include Joyland, the Danforth Review, Room of One’s Own, Stand Magazine, the Toronto Quarterly, the Antigonish Review, and the Windsor Review. She teaches poetry and screenwriting at the University of Western Ontario. Her screenplays have garnered numerous nominations and awards, and have been screened at film festivals worldwide. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.