Media & Reviews
From Paris without Love
Literary Review of Canada
A review of Jasmina Odor’s “The Harvesters.” David Venn on nuclear waste disposal. Poetry by Catherine Owen. Inside the September issue.
Small Victories
GEIST
These are stories of home, of loss, of love—and of the slippery surrealism that permeates everyday life.
The Harvesters by Jasmina Odor
The Miramichi Reader
The Harvesters, Jasmina Odor’s luminous debut novel, depicts Mira and her nephew Bernard’s brief visit to Paris through Mira’s inquiring, meditative perspective.
“The Harvesters” by Jasmina Odor
Story Street Writers
The Harvesters by Jasmina Odor is a beautifully written novel that asks the reader to slow down and examine the power of memory and the desire to harness the future. Odor creates a character study dealing with immigration, what it means to belong, and the role we play in our lives.
Love and All Its Vulnerabilities: A Review of Jasmina Odor’s You Can’t Stay Here
Prism International
Jasmina Odor’s short story collection You Can’t Stay Here is about relationships. Shaky ones. They flicker between lovers and friends, but also between old homes and new ones — most of Odor’s protagonists emigrated to Canada from Croatia during the Bosnian war. Even temporal relationships are disrupted.
Space and Time
Canadian Literature
The melancholy weight of time is one of the burdens of these haunting and painful stories
Why Jasmina Odor wants readers to see themselves in her short stories
CBC
Jasmina Odor's debut collection You Can't Stay Here, is filled with tales of displacement and sometimes difficult searches for place and finding a home. (William Fraser)
New reads for short story lovers
Toronto Star
This is a memorable first collection, confident and smart.
Between Us: The Language of Home
Prism International
Before our conversation, these amazing women and writers were strangers to each other and to us. But in a conversation facilitated by Emma Cleary, they found so much of themselves and their experience mirrored in each other’s work.
Yearning fuels Jasmina Odor's beautiful debut short story collection
EDMONTON JOURNAL
Thirteen short stories of yearning and upheaval, Jasmina Odor’s debut book masterfully explores displacement far deeper than merely geographical.
Review of You Can’t Stay Here by Jasmina Odor (Thistledown 2017)
Greg Hollingshead
…it’s a most contemporary collection but not a typically Canadian one. First, the focus is on personal relationships, but the guiding spirit is Mavis Gallant, not Alice Munro, because the terrible, iron force of history is in operation in these lives to a degree rare in Canadian fiction. Second, the emotional and historical intelligence at work here is in a league of its own. …These are stories for these times.