The writer and performer Sabrina Reeves discusses her debut novel Little Crosses (House of Anansi Press, 2024), with Joseph Planta.

Little Crosses by Sabrina Reeves (House of Anansi Press, 2024). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Little Crosses

Text of the introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

There’s a new novel out now, Little Crosses. Its author Sabrina Reeves joins me to talk about the relationship of a daughter to her complicated, narcissistic mother, who now lives with alcohol-related dementia. I’ll ask Sabrina about Cassie Wolfe, and her mother Nina, and about the struggles Cassie has in reconciling the mother she knew before dementia, and the woman that is now an alcoholic. She wasn’t always like this of course, she was an architect and builder, somebody with incredible charisma. We get a sense of who Nina was, as Cassie sits down prior to her mother’s intake at a detox facility, as she  write down a sketch of who her mother was. The book touches on the relationship between parents and children, addiction, as well as grief. I’ll ask Sabrina to tell us as much as she’d like about this book and what from her personal experience might have inspired some of the novel that is Little Crosses. Sabrina Reeves is a writer, performer, and co-founder of the inter-disciplinary performance collective bluemouth inc. This new book is published by House of Anansi Press. For more visit www.sabrinareeves.com. We spoke about three and a half weeks ago. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Sabrina Reeves; Ms. Reeves, good morning.

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