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Moving beyond life challenges.
Excerpt:
Valerie Behiery was born and grew up in Ottawa. After writing a lot on the art of minoritized communities, she wrote "Stories of Hope and Healing." It is a short story book with all of the nine stories fictional, except for the autobiographical one of the sadness when she lost her dear mother. The other stories are also about life challenges and moving beyond them. This explains why the book has pleased different kinds of audiences.