Lynn coady born january 24, 1970 is a canadian novelist and journalist life and career. Lynn coady is a novelist and essayist whose fiction has been garnering acclaim since her first novel, strange heaven, was published and subsequently nominated for the governor generals. Irene, a trained nurse, had spent her life caring for karens older sister kelli, who was born with a developmental disability. The 1970s have long been referred to as the me decade.
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