![]() ![]() She decided to get to know the youths, gaining the trust of the suspects as well as the other people involved, making them the subject of her book. when she saw the teenagers who had been charged with the murder of the 14-year-old Virk in a detention center and was said to have been surprised by their youth and vulnerability. Godfrey spent almost a decade researching Under the Bridge and was in her hometown of Victoria, B.C. in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence before working as a journalist and editor in Toronto and New York, was the author of The Torn Skirt, a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Prize in 2002, and the nonfiction book Under The Bridge, a nonfiction account of the beating death of Reena Virk. The novel explores the brief affair between Peggy Guggenheim and Samuel Beckett in Paris, 1937. More: Rebecca Godfrey (1967 - 2022) spent her time at MacDowell revising the first 10 chapters of her novel The Dilettante, forthcoming from Knopf. ![]()
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