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

  • The more things change, the more nothing changes

    23 January 2021

    How is that real estate developers get to do what they want without real consequences? Oh, right. Nothing new to see here, folks. In mid-April 1999, a Halifax city planner named Gary Porter returned from his vacation to a surprise. He noticed there was now one more storey than the city had approved on an […]

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    Halifax Examiner

  • When is $15 million really $10 million, but actually only $5 million?

    16 January 2021

    Welcome to the world of higher education in which “gift” and “gift commitment” can be parsed so billionaires can claim to give what they haven’t, and dictate whatever they want. On this Makeover Monday, let us pretend—because there will be more than a little smoke-and-mirrors pretend in this column—that it is actually the morning of […]

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    Halifax Examiner

  • Would you buy a used government from one of these guys?

    9 January 2021

    Don’t worry. You don’t have to choose. Liberal delegates will pick your next premier for you. All you have to do is live with him… for a while. Welcome to 2021! In addition to figuring out the appropriate trash folder into which to dump all of 2020 (along with last week’s plethora of pleading emails […]

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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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