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Naptime
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I cannot think of anyone else who could pull off so beautifully this controlled explosion of drollery, mischief , sly fun, and tenderness.","OtherText_Review_20":"Page by page, the book is often a hoot, brimming with winningly quirky characters operating by their own twisted fairy-tale logic.","OtherText_Review_20_Auth":"Michael Bourne","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_21":"By turns whimsical and macabre, fanciful and sinister…it is a journey of self-knowledge and self-realization, complete with sinister twists and menacing turns. It is a mythic journey from darkness to light, during which the hero accepts his fate and becomes the man he was destined to be. Moreover, it is a darn good read.","OtherText_Review_21_Auth":"Rob Reid","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Waterloo Region Record","OtherText_Review_22":"Undermajordomo Minor is an audacious fairy tale in the form of a novel. Or an outlandish novel as a fairy tale. Doesn’t matter. 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Once again Patrick deWitt proves his wild, original talent, generous wit, and exquisite control.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask","OtherText_Review_5":"In his delightful and dark new novel, Booker nominee deWitt brings his amusingly off-kilter vision to a European folk tale . . . DeWitt uses familiar tropes to lull the reader into a false sense of grounding, delivering with abundant good humor a fully realized, consistently surprising, and thoroughly amusing tale of longing, love, madness, and mirth.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_6":"... eerily precise ... DeWitt is a true original, conjuring up dark and hilarious images. This is a bizarre, darkly funny, passionate ... book.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Times","OtherText_Review_7":"with its blend of fantasy and gothic romance, Undermajordomo Minor sounded unlikely to enchant a literalist like me. How wrong I was. 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Undermajordomo Minor
A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.
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The Joyful Living Colouring Book
A splendid colouring book of original new illustrations with a few choice words of hope that will inspire and delight.
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{"id":6814263443515,"title":"Heart Residence","handle":"heart-residence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA landmark collection from one of Canada’s literary icons, and the founder of House of Anansi Press, \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects for the first time work from all corners of Dennis Lee’s extraordinary career.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an exhilarating revelation. No other poet in Canada has the depth and range of Dennis Lee — jazzman, jester, and metaphysician, hardball political thinker and passionate lover, he has been publishing poems for fifty years. His first book, \u003ci\u003eKingdom of Absence\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1967, was the founding publication of House of Anansi Press. Since then Lee has produced work across the poetic spectrum, from nursery rhymes and skipping songs to uncompromising moral introspection to full-tilt love songs, plangent psalms, and ecstatic, solitary prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are poets’ poets and people’s poets. And then there are those few who are neither and both: the few who become, over time, part of the warp and weft of their culture. \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects, for the first time, work from all corners of this extraordinary career. In its verve and variety, this is a one-of-a-kind collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:51-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:27:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Lee Dennis","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2017-04-08"],"price":2995,"price_min":2995,"price_max":2995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40206695530555,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001490","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Heart Residence - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2995,"weight":720,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487001490","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561539131,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2625,"width":1725,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480"},"aspect_ratio":0.657,"height":2625,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b3cc354a-fcc9-4429-8c0f-7de8232b665d.jpg?v=1678601480","width":1725}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA landmark collection from one of Canada’s literary icons, and the founder of House of Anansi Press, \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects for the first time work from all corners of Dennis Lee’s extraordinary career.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an exhilarating revelation. No other poet in Canada has the depth and range of Dennis Lee — jazzman, jester, and metaphysician, hardball political thinker and passionate lover, he has been publishing poems for fifty years. His first book, \u003ci\u003eKingdom of Absence\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1967, was the founding publication of House of Anansi Press. Since then Lee has produced work across the poetic spectrum, from nursery rhymes and skipping songs to uncompromising moral introspection to full-tilt love songs, plangent psalms, and ecstatic, solitary prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are poets’ poets and people’s poets. And then there are those few who are neither and both: the few who become, over time, part of the warp and weft of their culture. \u003ci\u003eHeart Residence\u003c\/i\u003e collects, for the first time, work from all corners of this extraordinary career. In its verve and variety, this is a one-of-a-kind collection.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Heart Residence
A landmark collection from one of Canada’s literary icons, and the co-founder of House of Anansi Press.
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Grandfather and the Moon
This moving graphic novel tells the story of the affection between a girl and her grandfather. A sensitive portrayal of grief and pursuing a dream.
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Seamus’s Short Story
Seamus would give anything to be taller! One day, while playing dress-up in his mother's closet, he finds a way to reach new heights.
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The Bush Garden
Originally published by Anansi in 1971, this attractive A List edition features Northrop Frye’s timeless essays on literature and painting.
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Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / Only in My Hometown
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Now the sidewalk was empty. Tiny lights strung between gas lamps and storefronts created a glittery canopy beneath which we stood. Charming, he’d said when we arrived earlier, a part of the city neither of us had seen. I was still in my clothes from that morning: white sweater, pencil skirt, suede ankle boots with zippers, high-heeled. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’ll call a car, I said. Your hotel’s on the way to mine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe rode in silence, the wet asphalt glowing red and green at stoplights. When we pulled up to his hotel, James turned to face me, adjusting his glasses. Okay, he said. Text me when you’re safely back. He leaned over to brush my cheek with his lips, but when the bellhop opened the rear door he didn’t get out. He sat looking ahead, rubbing a hand up and down, up and down his thigh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth of us 45, born in the same year, four months apart; both married to our spouses for twenty-three years. Two similarities in what had come to seem, in the time we’d known each other, a cosmically-ordained accumulation: born and raised in the desert southwest, allergic to peanuts, obsessed with the Christian mystics and quantum theory and Moby Dick. Children the same ages and genders—older girl, younger boy—and 96-year-old grandmothers who still lived independently. In the end it was this last fact that undid me, the longevity in our respective genes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe safe way to let yourself fall in love with someone who isn’t your spouse: imagine the life you might have together after both your spouses have passed away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(What I mean is, darling: when I made love with you that night, I was making love with the magnificent old man I knew you would become.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan I help with any bags? the bellhop said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou’re at the Hyatt? 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They wear gray tuxedos with ascot ties and slick black shoes. Three, including the groom, have the same round tortoise-shell glasses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown the coast, at the country club in Pacific Palisades, the caterers are assembling the cake: five tiers frosted in a basket-weave pattern, with real ivy and roses trailing down one side. The bride has selected a different flavor for each tier: butter cream, chocolate, spice, red velvet. The top layer—which will be placed in the couple’s freezer for their first anniversary, until one night while they’re out, the bride’s younger brother, knowing nothing about such traditions, eats the whole thing—is white-chocolate with raspberry-creme filling. The centerpieces are fishbowls with ivy and roses identical to those on the cake. They sit in a refrigerated van on Pacific Coast Highway, north of Sunset. 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She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Read by","Contributor_0":"Ibrahim, Djamila","Contributor_1":"Swaby, Meghan","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet in East Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and the U.S.,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003ci\u003eThings Are Good Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e examines the weight of the migrant experience on the human psyche. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Djamila Ibrahim’s powerful story collection, women, men, and children who’ve crossed continents in search of a better life find themselves struggling with the chaos of displacement and the religious and cultural clashes they face in their new homes. A maid who travelled to the Middle East lured by the prospect of a well-paying job is trapped in the Syrian war. A female ex-freedom fighter immigrates to Canada only to be relegated to cleaning public washrooms and hospital sheets. A disillusioned civil servant struggles to come to grips with his lover’s imminent departure. A young Muslim Canadian woman who’d married her way to California realizes she’s made a mistake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThings Are Good Now\u003c\/i\u003e is about remorse and the power of memory, and about the hardships of a post-9\/11 reality that labels many as suspicious or dangerous because of their names or skin colour alone. 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A metre or so before her feet touch the ground, she loses her grip and falls on the asphalt. She gets up quickly, adjusts the duffle bag on her back and looks up towards the house. The lights have not been turned on. She takes a deep breath and searches the dark street for the ride Ahmed, her employers’ gatekeeper had arranged for her. She spots an old van a few metres away. Its rear lights flash twice as agreed upon. She walks towards it as fast as she can without running.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Get in the back,” the driver says from the half-open window before Sara has a chance to make eye contact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cover yourself with that blanket and keep your head down,” he orders with a rushed voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePanic takes over as she slides the van door shut. What if this is a trap? She trusts Ahmed. He didn’t let her out of the compound alone for fear of losing his job but he was nice to her. And he has delivered on the promise of finding her someone who, for a fee, would help her. But this man on the other hand could be taking her to the police station instead of the outskirts of Damascus where she’s supposed to meet someone who will take her to Beirut. She shakes the distressing thought away. There is nothing she can do now but hope for the best.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNever before has there been such interest in immigrant and refugee stories, as well as stories of the African diaspora\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe stories highlight the post-9\/11 realities of immigrants and people of colour in the Western world and in war-torn countries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRace and gender — both huge issues — feature in the collection as major themes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“This is essential fiction for right now.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Ibrahim writes with intensity and empathy, drawing believably complex characters who are understandably torn between bleak alternatives. 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These voices should be heard.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"This Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Things Are Good Now explores the scars of violence and the weight of love and guilt on the soul.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"A 49th Shelf Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2018-02-11","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Things Are Good Now explores the scars of violence and the weight of love and guilt on the soul.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Things Are Good Now
Things Are Good Now explores the scars of violence and the weight of love and guilt on the soul.
