Book Review - Only by Blood, a novel by Renate Krakauer

BIO
Renate Krakauer’s career included senior roles in education, and municipal and provincial governments. She has published award-winning short fiction in a number of literary journals, among
them Parchment, The Storyteller, and Foliate Oak; essays in the The Globe and Mail, journals and two anthologies; a memoir But I Had a Happy Childhood; and two plays. Only by Blood is her fi rst
novel. Renate lives in Toronto with her husband. She has three adult children, two stepsons, and six grandchildren