KYO MACLEAR was born in London and grew up in Toronto as the only child of a foreign correspondent. Her father reported on some significant world events, including recording the first interviews with American POWs in North Vietnam. While Stray Love is entirely a work of fiction, it is informed by her experiences living with her father. Her first novel, The Letter Opener (2007), was awarded the K.M. Hunter Artists Award and shortlisted for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Maclear is also an award-winning visual arts writer and the author of two children’s books: Spork (2010) and Virginia Wolf (2012). Visit her online at www.kyomaclear.ca.

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Stray Love is a vibrant and deeply moving book about a boy of uncertain origins who seeks belonging in a world of harsh divides and stifling conventions. It is a book about parents who have been called to witness the evils of a war, and about children who have inherited bot the responsibilities and emotional fallout of such brave seeing. Kyo Maclear is a writer of enormous talent and compassion — one to trust wholeheartedly in revealing the funny, the beautiful, and the unadorned truth. - David Chariandy ()