Rehtaeh

Glen Canning and Susan McClelland Rehtaeh Parsons’s father, Glen Canning, will co-write a book about his daughter’s sexual assault and subsequent suicide, to be published by Goose Lane Editions in 2020. The book will be co-written with journalist and non-fiction author Susan McClelland. The deal was arranged by Rob Firing at the Transatlantic Agency. Canning, who speaks to high schools and universities about violence prevention, has called the book a memorial to his daughter that also contextualizes her tragedy within systemic societal failures, such as rape culture and victim blaming. He will also interrogate his own personal history, including his experience of being abused as a child by a family member. McClelland’s previous books include Sungju Lee’s Every Falling Star, which recounts a 12-year-old’s life on the streets in North Korea, and Mariatu Kamara’s Bite of the Mango, about a 12-year-old girl who survived an attack in rural Sierra Leone, which…