Letter from Lubumbashi
Looking for K.Linda Kivi’s moving novel, “Letter from Lubumbashi”? Check out New Orphic Publishers or simply email with your mailing address to order a copy for $16+$3 shipping.
If Home is a Place
If Home is a Place explores the passionate and complex relationships between mothers and daughters, and brings to light women's experience of war. This powerful story delves into the refugee experience and the meaning of home, revealing how emigration can form the psyche of a people for generations.
Dispossessed of their native Estonian home during World War II, Maria and her daughters, Sofi and Helgi, struggle to survive in war-torn Europe. In Canada, fifty years late, home is still not a given. We watch as Esther, the grown daughter of Sofi, slowly unravels the legacy of exile and discovers the place within herself that is home.
What the reviewers say about If Home if a Place:
"This heartfelt first novel traces one family's experience as World War II refugees from Estonia who ultimately settle in Canada... The historical sections, told by the three elder women, are wonderfully vivid, giving a fine impression of wartime hardships and uncertainties, and of the heroism of daily life."
Women in Libraries
Home means something very distinct and important to Esther's grandmother, mother and aunt whose struggles to survive... are richly evoked in intense, well chosen and detailed scenes. Kivi embraces and develops the traditional novel form to fit the pieces into a cohesive whole. The result is convincing and compelling fiction."
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"Kivi's writing makes her characters and their emotions real. Altogether, this is a very satisfying book."
Canadian Book Review Annual
K.Linda Kivi is the author of numerous books, articles and stories. She makes her home in the mountainous territory of the Sinixt First Nation in British Columbia, Canada. Raised in Toronto's Estonian refugee community, Estonian is her first language. She continues to write, to garden and to learn about her adopted land.
To order If Home is a Place, please contact K.Linda Kivi at maapress@netidea.com or write 1-4925 Marello Rd. Nelson, BC, V1L 6X4.
Canadian Women Making Music (1992) is an exploration of Canadian women composers and musicians from a historical perspective. The book also includes photographs and a series of in-depth interviews with contemporary musicians from across Canada including Alanis Obomsawin, Salome Bey, Katari Taiko, Pamela Morgan, Ann Southam and Rita MacNeil. This book is a must read for aspiring musicians and people interested in filling out herstory. Canadian Women Making Music can be ordered from bookstores, from the publisher, Green Dragon Press, 2267 Lake Shore Blvd. W. Toronto, Ontario, M8V 5X2 or from the author, K.Linda Kivi. ISBN 0-9691955-8-3.
The Drum (1997-2003) was an environmentally-minded "zine" (a small, political magazine) of which K.Linda Kivi has published 27 issues. The Drum follows the story of logging in the BC wilderness and the vast reasons behind the destructive practices of corporations. Readers are encouraged to write in about their own life experiences on nature, consumerism and other subjects.