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About Lydia Perovic

Culture writer and freelance journalist In Toronto. Books: Lost in Canada: An Immigrant's Second Thoughts (Sutherland House, 2022); All That Sang (Vehicule, 2016); Incidental Music (Inanna, 2012).

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