MADDY
Cathi Bond
1968, a time of youthful revolt and liberation, and yet, for Maddy Barnes, a happy, small town teenager, her world will explode.
The oldest child of a beloved doctor, and his beautiful, fun-loving wife, Maddy grows up spending weekends of her childhood at her grandfather’s barn, a place where only the brave survive. A place of strong women, and love unrestrained.
At just thirteen, a sudden, unforeseen tragedy causes Maddy's father to disappear into a world of loss and sorrow. Alone, her world now capsized without any means of navigating a new reality, Maddy falls in love – a hand of hope reaching out, and yet, ultimately, this love unrequited will send her fleeing to Toronto where she joins a world of street kids, speed freaks, and a violent dealer with rabies eyes named Hermann.
With no one to save her but herself, Maddy falls deeper into a dark place of sex, drugs, and danger, while finally coming to terms with a truth she can no longer ignore: a desire for women, and a life lived on her terms.
MADDY is the 2nd book in Cathi Bond’s trilogy, A Woman of Good Standing
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"Compelling, intriguing and moving. Maddy explores the struggles of a young woman grappling with tragic personal loss and the birth of her sexuality in an emotionally and sexually repressive culture."
- Judy Rebick, activist, author of Transforming Power, Occupy This and Heroes in My Head
"Maddy's journey of self-discovery is also a journey into a dangerous Toronto we rarely hear about. Fast-paced, heart wrenching and riveting. I couldn't put it down."
- Adrienne Mitchell, Producer and Director of Bellevue, Bomb Girls, and Durham County.
Cathi Bond has written extensively about contemporary culture in print and on the Internet. A well-known broadcaster for CBC Radio, she was a regular columnist for DNTO, Spark and Metro Morning. She has also contributed works of short fiction to Tel-Talk and Coach House’s Any Other Way. One of Canada’s podcast pioneers, you can listen to her and Nora Young freak out over the future on one of her latest ventures, The Sniffer.