Replay: Canada Reads live chat with Angie Abdou

The fierce drive of a former competitive swimmer and the imagination of a gifted fiction writer: these are the qualities that author and creative writing instructor Angie Abdou brought to her compelling first novel, The Bone Cage.

A native of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Abdou graduated from the University of Calgary with a PhD in English literature, and currently teaches at the College of the Rockies in southeastern British Columbia.

Abdou made her literary debut with the short story collection Anything Boys Can Do in 2006, which BC Bookworld called "an extraordinary literary debut." A year later, she published The Bone Cage, which won praise from critics across the country for its insightful portrait of two athletes training for the Olympics.

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Join us on Thursday, January 20 at 2pm ET to live chat with Angie Abdou, author of The Bone Cage.

The chat is over, but read the transcript below!

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