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Marusya Bociurkiw. Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp, 2007. 171 pp. $19.95 sc.
A little over fifty years ago, Ukrainian literary production in Canada experienced a radical shift in its development. Instead of Ukrainian, some writers began to use English as their preferred vehicle of expression. And, moreover, women came to dominate the field - Vera Lysenko, Maara Haas, Myrna Kostash, Helen Potrebenko, Janice Kulyk-Keefer, Lisa Grekul, and, now, Marusya Bociurkiw. Some of these gals, like Bociurkiw, are armed with doctoral degrees: they can't be treated lightly, and each occupies a special niche in the evolution of "U.C.L.E." (Ukrainian Canadian literature...