Corked
Kathryn Borel, Jr. (John Wiley & Sons Canada)
Corked is newcomer Kathryn Borel, Jr.’s wine-fuelled entry in the genre of memoirs about the seemingly unbridgeable generational divide. The protagonists here are the author, a successful Toronto journalist who works for CBC Radio, and her eccentric father Philippe, a French hotelier and formidable wine snob, who together partake in a drunken road trip through France’s wine country. At just 30, Borel has talent and charm to spare, a literary wunderkind in the making. Our only complaint is that her publisher opted not to go with the book’s more, er, evocative original title: Château Shitfaced.
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