Catherine Kidd

Missing the Ark Catherine Kidd

Fiction. MISSING THE ARK is the highly anticipated first novel from acclaimed spoken word artist Catherine Kidd. Growing up in East Vancouver in the 1980s, Agnes Underhill's active but troubled imagination makes it difficult to live with her dysfunctional family: her Scottish father speaks in tongues and lives in a locked basement room, while her dental hygienist mother juggles a number of lovers. The novel follows Agnes' relationship with Buffalo man, a divorced taxidermist whom she follows home from the zoo, and the jealous chimpanzee who lives with him. Catherine Kidd's writing has been published in four other conundrum press releases as well as countless magazines, journals and anthologies. An excerpt from MISSING THE ARK was nominated for the prestigious Journey Prize and sections were adapted into the award winning stage show, Sea Peach. Kidd has performed her stories all over the globe: New York, Edinburgh, Bavaria, Singapore, Toronto, Oslo, Bristol, Montreal, South Africa, and many points in between. She lived in Whitehorse, Vancouver, and Northern India before making Montreal her home. Her voice can be heard narrating sports documentaries, air safety messages, circus promos, and lip-gloss commercials. She also appears in the tv mini-series St. Urbain's Horseman, filmed in Montreal.