Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Sarah Selecky writes a piece for the National Post about a burglary at her home that left her most beloved possessions, her books, untouched. While the thieves ransacked her entire home, leaving it in what look like a post-hurricane mess, stealing jewellery and electronics, they left her countless shelves of books behind.
“My shelves of books were so insignificant, it was as if they were invisible,” writes Selecky. “They found the first aid kit in the closet upstairs and took a seven-year-old bottle of leftover Tylenol-3, but the Giller-bound copy of my first book — given to me by Jim Cuddy, on national television! — was still resting on the glass bookshelf, sitting five millimetres from the edge, exactly where I left it.”
Read more about Selecky’s candid first-hand account on the National Post website.
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