Shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writer's Prize (Best First Book) and the 2009 ReLit Awards (Novel).
Cleavage tracks the patchwork musings of Leah, who, at twenty-four years old and two years into a relationship, discovers she has breast cancer. Told in fragments reminiscent of A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews, Cleavage details Leah's struggles with her illness and treatments, the conflict between her disease and her boyfriend, her ambivalence toward her job, and a long-standing feud with her mother and only sister.
“This is an ambitious book and an interesting one”
- Marnie Parsons, Globe and Mail
“As Steinbeck was a master of painting landscape with his words, Bischoff is well on her way to mastering the telling of thought, movement, and dialogue ”
- Carla Atherton, Cahoots Magazine
#1 Original Edition Fiction Bestseller at Pages Bookstore in Calgary (May 4, 2008)
Bestselling Original Edition Fiction in Calgary, Alberta
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