Contemporary Canadian Literature with a Distinctly Urban Twist

Anvil Press

Touched: A Novel

Touched: A Novel

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Touched renders the emotional and intellectual implosion experienced by Jade King, a young university student. This debut novel challenges the social stigma attached to such altered states and traces the effects of physical violation and psychic trauma. Lundgren encourages a critical examination of current psychiatric labels and treatments through a narrative that interweaves family history, legal texts, medical documents—and brave, phantasmagoric writing.


  • Publication: Jan 1999
  • ISBN: 9781895636253
  • Pages: 170 pp
  • Size: 5 x 8 inches

A past winner of the Open Space Emerging Writers' Competition and a finalist in Paragraph's Short Fiction Contest, Jodi Lundgren has published in literary magazines such as Trivia, Paragraph and subTerrain, as well as in the anthology Beyond Bedlam. Her critical writing has appeared in Canadian Literature, Matrix and Essays on Canadian Writing. She is currently working on a novel for young adults.

Books by Jodi Lundgren