This condition afflicts the narrator’s mother Adele after she emigrates from Trinidad in David Chariandy’s novel Soucouyant (“soo-koo-YAHN”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this condition that afflicts Nancy, who seeks help in the story “In Sight of the Lake.” Grant gives Fiona a book on her mother’s native Iceland after she develops this condition in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.”
ANSWER: dementia [accept Alzheimer’s disease, AD, senility, senile dementia, frontotemporal dementia, FTD, or Lewy body dementia; prompt on memory loss, forgetting, forgetfulness, amnesia, amnesiac, or obliviousness; prompt on old age; aging, getting old, elderly, senescence, or equivalents] (Alice Munro wrote both stories.)
[10h] David’s aging mother forgets to turn off the stove in this Canadian author’s story “In the Fall” from Island. Grandparents’ memories of Gaelic culture on Cape Breton punctuate this author’s novel No Great Mischief.
ANSWER: Alistair MacLeod (“mac-CLOUD”)
[10e] MacLeod (“mac-CLOUD”) was on the jury that awarded the Giller Prize to Anil’s Ghost, a novel by this Sri Lankan-born author who portrayed Almásy’s (“ALL-mah-shee’s”) amnesia after a plane crash in The English Patient.
ANSWER: Michael Ondaatje (“on-DAH-chee”) [or Philip Michael Ondaatje]
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