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Award-winning authors on balancing chaos and control

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December 7, 2017

Season 2017, Episode 300315450

53:58

A parent's fear. A child coping. The final stops of life. Winners of the 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards write on the theme of "chaos and control", and talk about where their imaginations travelled in the process.

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