Prairie Freight

Prairie Stories by Janet Lundman

These eleven stories are incidents recalled from childhood – a long time ago, to widowhood – not such a long time ago. For me, the prairie embodies the emotional freight we carry with us from childhood into adulthood, no matter where we wander, no matter where we land.

All of us have been formed by experiences that still inhabit us.
John Berger: Ways of Seeing

We are all as women recollecting our lives, trying to believe and make sense of our experiences and live on.
Linda Leonard: Wounded Women

What is it about the past that makes the present by comparison so pallid and weightless?
John Banville: Eclipse

Janet Lundman

Ms. Lundman was keen to venture from her prairie home. She found after living and working in various parts of this continent, travelling to others and finally settling in Victoria, that her prairie home travelled with her.