[5] Uncertain Weights and Measures began as a Masters thesis in the Creative Writing Program at Concordia University.
[6] Set in post-revolutionary Moscow, the novel traces the life of a young research scientist working at a brain institute that housed Lenin's brain, and that of the man she loves, Sasha, whose artistic ambitions run afoul of the state-sanctioned aesthetics.
The reader is pressed to ask challenging questions of history, science, and private life without ever shifting out of the gripping narrative.
Parr was nominated for the Governor General's Award, and her first book declares the opening of an exciting career.
"[7] Born in New Zealand, she grew up on the West Coast of Canada and is now a history professor at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec.