Off the Beaten Path: An Interview with Michelle Lerner

Off the Beaten Path: An Interview with Michelle Lerner

A runner-up in the 2020 Book Pipeline Unpublished competition, Michelle Lerner's debut novel Ring released in 2025. The literary fiction book has received acclaim for its introspective look at grief and the management of tragedy, set against the backdrop of a remote Canadian town.Ring is, for me, a difficult novel to explain. I almost want to describe it in emotions instead of coherent criticism, because it’s so mesmerizing in its own way, rivet…