About the Book

Angel Wing follows Kareena through the formative years that shape her identity as a writer and artist. From St. John’s friendships, family tensions, first love, and theatre, her life expands into university, Montreal, Japan, remote northern communities, teaching, artistic work, heartbreak, and personal change.

Along the way, relationships challenge her assumptions about love, belonging, desire, responsibility, and selfhood. Her paintings and writing become mirrors for experiences she cannot always name, while the recurring Angel Wing image evolves with her understanding of protection, confinement, memory, and freedom.

Rooted in Newfoundland landscapes and cultural detail, Michele Lear’s first novel offers an intimate portrait of a woman learning to claim her own life.