With South Africa bracing for life after Nelson Mandela, could the tumult in India that accompanied Gandhi’s death be a useful analogue?

Wendy is the fictional narrative of a young woman living in an urban centre, whose dreams of contemporary art stardom are perpetually derailed by the temptations of punk music, drugs, alcohol, parties, and boys. She is also Hazlitt's Montreal Scene Reporter.

In 2007, the author’s mother received a strange email from a relative she didn't know existed. We turn to DNA analysis in pursuit of who we are, out of narcissistic self-obsession, and, as Carolyn Abraham’s The Juggler’s Children shows, to feel less alone.