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An Interview with Holly Quan: Author of The Sow’s Ear Café

Holly Quan is an award‐winning writer and communications specialist. She’s been freelancing since 1988 and has written documentary film scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, corporate communications materials and several non‐fiction books. In 2000, Holly and her long‐time partner moved from Calgary to a small town in the Alberta foothills. That transformation from city mouse to country mouse was the inspiration for The Sow’s Ear Café, her first novel.

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The Sow’s Ear Cafe is, on one level, a contemporary romance set in the gorgeous foothills of southwestern Alberta, Canada, involving two broken people who learn […]

Review: The Sow’s Ear Café by Holly Quan

Ending up in Sweetgrass, Alberta, while on a drive to clear her head of thirty-nine years of bad decisions and emotional baggage, Lucie slowly finds love and acceptance in her new town. The Sow’s Ear Café by Holly Quan transports the tough and damaged Lucie from her shallow life in Vancouver to Sweetgrass’s potential for deeper human connections.

Staked to her journey by a friend, Lucie’s car breaks down in Sweetgrass. She soon finds herself renting a room from a goodhearted ranching couple, working as a waitress, and then dating Ray, the mysterious chef of the Sow’s Ears Café. The […]