In “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus,” a college student balances her new independence while investigating the demise of her parents’ marriage. By Eleanor Dunn Eleanor Dunn is an ...

My book was no longer my book, not quite, and knowing this was both sad and right. Humbling. It had become another person’s story, or room, a space in which they could dream or draw comfort.

This bilingual book (with text in Inuktitut syllabics, Inuktitut Roman orthography and English) shares six Inuktitut terms for caribou throughout their life cycles, giving the youngest of readers ...

So, what is The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus about? At first, you will think it is about Pen, a young Canadian woman who’s gone to study at her father’s Scottish alma mater, and the ...

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You might be surprised to learn that Emma Knight’s new book, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, isn’t about marine life at all. The novel follows two Canadian students finding their way in ...

“I looked into the eyes of this lovely, stoical gardener,” she said, “took in the measure of the man, and somehow felt connected. I thought, ‘What an interesting premise for a novel’ and ...

Two new novels tackle themes of motherhood and family secrets. First, in Emma Knight's The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, 18-year-old Pen has just arrived as a student at the University of ...

There is, furthermore, a persistent feeling that the life cycle concept adds luster and believability to the insistent claim in certain circles that marketing is close to being some sort of science. 1 ...