Review: Ottawa author Tree Abraham’s book ‘Cyclettes’

“Cyclettes,” the new book from Ottawa-born, Brooklyn-based writer and book designer Tree Abraham, is a small wonder of a book, a brightly polished gem. with accompanying images, “Cyclettes” charts the course of Abraham’s life and thought through her involvement with, and love for, bicycles and bicycling. “I look determined, though too tiny to pump the pedals,” Abraham writes. Abraham’s writing, however, is where the book accretes most of its force. of Speculation.” Describing her late-night rides home from a job at Domino’s Pizza, for example, Abraham writes, “the air smelled like fresh-cut grass and felt like chilled glass.