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If You Start Breathing

Thea Lim

‘Sharing her pain with other people meant that her pain belonged to her less, Joanne belonged to her less.’

Thea Lim

Thea Lim is the author of An Ocean of Minutes, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the Southampton Review, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, Salon and elsewhere. She lives in Toronto where she is a professor of creative writing.

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