Stephen Kimber

WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING ABOUT SWEETNESS IN THE LIME

  • a quietly powerful novel

    “The Sweetness in the Lime is a quietly powerful novel—poignant with the sorrow of great loss, uplifting with the joy of discovery. It is also a novel that often takes the reader by surprise… Eli Cooper’s gradual awakening into a more complete life reminds us that, though the path to happiness is strewn with obstacles, and though you often can’t see what’s around the next corner, setting out on the journey is sometimes a risk worth taking.”

    —Ian Colford
    Miramichi Reader

  • engrossing tale

    “Part love story, part mystery, this engrossing tale of Cuban Canadian connections avoids cliches and gets to the heart of what can happen when we cross borders.”

    —Karen Dubinsky
    Cuba Beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana

  • skeptical yet tender

    “The details of Kimber’s characters’ lives are wrapped around the architecture of Havana, Halifax, and Miami, and the complex cultures and politics of each. Skeptical yet tender and generous, this is a tense, honest and moving tale of latter- life love in the time of post-colonial globalization. You won’t want to put it down.”

    —Chris Benjamin
    Boy with a Problem

  • vividly drawn, intriguing, lyrical

    “Vividly drawn, intriguing, lyrical, funny and always entertaining, The Sweetness in the Lime is a story about home, friendship, loss and new beginnings; about second chances and the power of loyalty and abiding love.”

    —Carmen Rodríguez
    Retribution

  • hard to put down

    “Both a tender love story and a moving, insightful glimpse into the world of people moving in, and between, two different cultures—Canadian and Cuban. I enjoyed it immensely, and found it hard to put down.”

    —John Kirk
    Professor, Latin American Studies

  • infused with hope

    “… infused with hope—that what we do and who we are really matters, that second chances are possible, and so too is a better world.”

    —Kerry Clare
    4th Shelf

LATEST POSTS

  • Annette Verschuren’s ‘one more interesting thing’

    26 July 2021

    Ten years ago, Annette Verschuren told a newspaper reporter she had “one more really interesting one in me.” That, of course, was NRStor, the innovative clean energy storage developer. Now? She is, I point out as delicately as possible, nudging 65. Is she ready to retire? “No, no!” she says quickly. “You know what, Stephen? […]

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    Atlantic Business

  • Election 2021: Welcome to ‘stupid season’

    24 July 2021

    “An election” — as here-and-gone Conservative Prime Minister Kim Campbell once infamously but correctly explained  — “is no time to discuss serious issues.” The real reason we are going to the polls in the middle of August is because the Liberals hope, and believe, no one will be paying attention. It’s 7:37 am on Saturday […]

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    Halifax Examiner

  • Iain Rankin scores unforced error after own goal after…

    17 July 2021

    I’m guessing — hoping, for their sakes — the premier’s inner circle wasn’t responsible for “strategically leaking” news about Rankin’s youthful DUIs last week. But they, and Rankin himself, are certainly culpable for what happened after that. Watching Premier Iain Rankin score one own goal after another — and then, oh god, no, yet another — […]

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    Halifax Examiner

STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of two novels and eight non-fiction books. Buy his books here or at Amazon.
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