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{"id":7118293598267,"title":"The Age of Insecurity","handle":"the-age-of-insecurity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism—originate from a social order built on insecurity. From home ownership and education to the wellness industry and policing, many of the institutions and systems that promise to make us more secure actually undermine us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMixing social critique, memoir, history, political analysis, and philosophy, this genre-bending book rethinks both insecurity and security from the ground up. By facing our existential insecurity and embracing our vulnerability, Taylor argues, we can begin to develop more caring, inclusive, and sustainable forms of security to help us better weather the challenges ahead. \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Insecurity\u003c\/em\u003e will transform how you understand yourself and society—while illuminating a path toward meaningful change.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-04-03T10:34:46-04:00","created_at":"2023-04-03T09:20:34-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Bestseller","Adult Course Adoption","Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Taylor Astra","House of Anansi Press","Massey Lectures","pub date: 2023-09-05","Technology \u0026 Politics","The CBC Massey Lectures"],"price":1999,"price_min":1999,"price_max":2499,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41192451899451,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011932","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Age of Insecurity - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2499,"weight":354,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487011932","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41192452325435,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011949","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Age of Insecurity - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1999,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011949","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_166e2e60-3475-4468-85d8-fcd4425b6114.jpg?v=1713015264"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_166e2e60-3475-4468-85d8-fcd4425b6114.jpg?v=1713015264","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: CBC Massey Lectures, The Age of Insecurity: On the Collapse of Our Economic, Emotional, and Ecological Well-being by Astra Taylor. 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By facing our existential insecurity and embracing our vulnerability, Taylor argues, we can begin to develop more caring, inclusive, and sustainable forms of security to help us better weather the challenges ahead. \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Insecurity\u003c\/em\u003e will transform how you understand yourself and society—while illuminating a path toward meaningful change.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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She regularly writes for major publications, has directed multiple documentaries, toured with the band Neutral Milk Hotel, and co-founded the Debt Collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Taylor, Astra (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism—originate from a social order built on insecurity. From home ownership and education to the wellness industry and policing, many of the institutions and systems that promise to make us more secure actually undermine us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMixing social critique, memoir, history, political analysis, and philosophy, this genre-bending book rethinks both insecurity and security from the ground up. By facing our existential insecurity and embracing our vulnerability, Taylor argues, we can begin to develop more caring, inclusive, and sustainable forms of security to help us better weather the challenges ahead. \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Insecurity\u003c\/em\u003e will transform how you understand yourself and society—while illuminating a path toward meaningful change.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487011932","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487011932\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"occupy wallstreet;socialism;community organizing;tomson highway;laughing with the trickster;tanya talaga;all our relations;payam akhavan;in search of a better world;political science;canadian literature;non fiction;long form jounralism;sociology of class","NumberOfPages":"352","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant and utterly original book, Astra Taylor tugs at two threads that run all through our social fabric and finds in the reality of insecurity and the idea of security an entirely new way to envision our problems and possibilities. It's a stunning work of social theory, but to call it that doesn't convey how much it touches on the troubles of this very moment, as well as their origins—while always reminding us that things can be different.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things To Me","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eInsecurity is as important to understanding our world as inequality. But unlike inequality, it is understudied, undertheorized, and underdiscussed. This book is an attempt to address the gap in literature. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe premise is that in reality, the status quo isn’t really working for anyone, even the affluent and comparatively privileged; and contrary to their convictions, it isn’t working for those fighting, sometimes violently, to retain their relative advantage in a rapidly changing world. They, too, are deeply insecure. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is a book that will appeal to anyone trying to understand the current social and political moment and activists\/organizers who want to be more effective.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eTaylor asks us to contemplate a better world … This ethic of insecurity, collectivism and egalitarianism should be on the forefront of every educator’s mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eThe ideas that Taylor puts forth are not only radical, but world changing … \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Insecurity\u003c\/em\u003e is exactly the right book at exactly the right time. That time is now.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The Tyee","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eTaylor makes the case for clearing away capitalism’s distracting, destabilising regime; Keltner for expanding and more clearly valuing our connections to each other, to our own depths and capacities, and to the grandeur and order of the world beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New Statesman","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eA handbook for a new way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eAstra Taylor’s \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Insecurity\u003c\/em\u003e made me feel I understood something obvious that I had overlooked before ... that we on the left can (and need to) offer a different, better conception of security.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Current Affairs","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eThe Age of Insecurity \u003c\/em\u003edoesn’t tackle those challenging questions. What it does, instead, is explain why our world hardly allows them to be posed and hardly gives us the breathing space to think about them. It is, yes, a readable and insightful analysis of our present. But we have a lot of those—maybe too many. What makes this book worth the reader’s time is its idiosyncratic blend of the personal and the public, the emotional and the economic.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Commonweal Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003eA must-read.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Peace News","OtherText_Review_quote_0":"\u003cp\u003eAstra Taylor is a rare public intellectual, utterly committed to asking humanity's most profound questions yet entirely devoid of pretensions and compulsively readable.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_quote_0_Auth":"Naomi Klein","OtherText_Review_quote_1":"\u003cp\u003eWhether she is writing about gender discrimination in the tech industry, the plight of refugees, or the rights of the natural world, Taylor reveals in her essays a forthright commitment to “the cause of common humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_quote_1_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_quote_2":"\u003cp\u003eBlending big-picture thinking with the history of the populist struggle in America [Taylor] makes a strong case that the time for change is now.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_quote_2_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese days, everyone feels insecure. 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The Age of Insecurity
These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?
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{"id":6983133429819,"title":"Her First Palestinian","handle":"her-first-palestinian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-09-13T13:43:33-04:00","created_at":"2022-09-13T13:37:47-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Teebi Saeed","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2022-08-02"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40780122062907,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010874","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Her First Palestinian - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":250,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487010874","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40780122161211,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010881","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Her First Palestinian - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010881","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487010874.jpg?v=1705329728"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487010874.jpg?v=1705329728","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Her First Palestinian and Other Stories by Saeed Teebi. 'Intelligent, original and bursting with vitality' - Ayelet Tsabari, Author of The Art of Leaving. A soft yellow background with an small orange, unpeeled with the peel spiraling to its right.","id":24105733357627,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487010874.jpg?v=1705329728"},"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487010874.jpg?v=1705329728","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487007461","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487009571","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487010409","BASICMainSubject":"FIC029000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Short Stories","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSAEED TEEBI\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and lawyer based in Toronto. His story “Her First Palestinian” was shortlisted for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize. He was born to Palestinian parents in Kuwait and, after some time in the U.S., has lived in Canada since 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Short Stories (single author)","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ World Literature \/ Middle East \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"FIC029000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC111000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSAEED TEEBI\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and lawyer based in Toronto. His story “Her First Palestinian” was shortlisted for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize. 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A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487010874","Height":"7","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Astoria","MetaKeywords":"social justice;family drama;arabic;citizenship;peace","NumberOfPages":"256","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e Her First Palestinian\u003c\/em\u003e Saeed Teebi brilliantly and skillfully evokes the Palestinian diaspora experience, weaving stories of displacement, longing, and loss. 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Almost friendly as they tell you of themselves, their history, and the personal and societal roads they have to take. However, their wound is always internal, hidden under their agency, prosperity, and the most basic human need of them all: belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Danny Ramadan, author of The Foghorn Echoes","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eA gorgeous debut collection of short stories so complex and rich they make me think that Saeed Teebi has been writing for many years. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Hasan Namir, author of God in Pink","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful collection not only brings to light the varied and sometimes fraught experiences of diasporic Palestinians but does so with masterful storytelling. These stories are rich and deep, with elegant, tragic, or funny twists that will stay in my mind for a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Farzana Doctor, author of Seven","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eSaeed Teebi's \u003cem\u003eHer First Palestinian\u003c\/em\u003e is an exciting contribution to contemporary Palestinian diaspora literature. His characters grapple with overzealous allies, privilege, and polite discrimination, as well as forging new identities without quite managing to shed inherited ones. With sharp wit and humour, Teebi delivers a range of stories that are pleasingly new as they reverberate familiar themes of loss and triumph. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Sahar Mustafah, author of The Beauty of Your Face","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003eSaeed Teebi writes with Chekhovian intentionality and Nabokovian rumination. These are stories about modesty or vanity, kindness or treachery, timidity or wit. In the author’s intelligent grasp we find a heartbreaking tenacity for connection to the here and now and to the land between the river and the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Nyla Matuk, author of Stranger","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003eDispatches from the state of exile, these stories are filled with delightful, devastating turns as Teebi explores the endless fracturing of displacement.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Rebecca Sacks, author of City of a Thousand Gates","OtherText_Accolades_7":"\u003cp\u003eSaeed Teebi’s \u003cem \u003eHer First Palestinian\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful and propulsive debut collection of stories that dramatizes the experiences of the Palestinian diaspora. Compelling and complex characters displaced and removed from their historical homeland negotiate feelings of loss, estrangement, and complicity in Canada. Skillfully written with penetrating insight into the characters’ fractured identities, this book reveals a talented new Canadian voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_7_Auth":"Jury Citation, Danuta Gleed Literary Award","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe author's short story “Her First Palestinian” was shortlisted for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis collection is a much-needed contribution documenting Palestinian issues and culture in the North American diaspora.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe author wrote these stories in one year during the COVID pandemic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eSometimes a writer comes along whose stories are not only complex and full and exquisitely written, but whose vision and political voice feels necessary. In \u003cem\u003eHer First Palestinian\u003c\/em\u003e, Saeed Teebi coaxes the reader in a certain direction, and then flips the narrative so that now we are complicit, and we see our own guilt in the great divide that exists between the privileged and the stranger. Teebi does this with subtle humour and a wry tone. He does not preach, yet his writing expresses a certain fervour that is essential. He is a vital voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Jury Citation, Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eTeebi perfectly captures intergenerational and intercultural tension in stories as brilliant and cutting as finely hewn diamonds.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10":"\u003cp\u003eSaeed Teebi brilliantly and humorously examines what it means to be a diasporic subject in his debut short story collection, \u003cem \u003eHer First Palestinian\u003c\/em\u003e … The collection is a refreshing contribution to the corpus of Palestinian diasporic literature, offering stories not centred around the grief of displacement and generational loss but ones that cunningly and wittingly interrogate migrant life in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Event Magazine","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eDryly witty and cynical ... 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Her First Palestinian
Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.
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They Say Blue
The highly anticipated children's book from award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Jillian Tamaki.
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
A bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally and the most important book to have come out of South Korea since The Vegetarian.
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This collection weaves women together through the fabric of time and through their bravery, humanity, and hope even in the face of atrocities and defeat. Compulsively readable and intricately wrought, \u003cem\u003eThe Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read from a writer to watch.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eMarissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eLucky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Christine Estima’s debut is startling and heartrending, generous and vivid. It’s easy to fall in love with Christine’s insistence on compassion for women who are afforded little of it. With extraordinary prose and boundless empathy, \u003cem\u003eThe Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society\u003c\/em\u003e asks us to consider if we are inevitable products of our family history. 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Christine Estima has penned a refreshingly vibrant and multicultural portrait of Montreal that braids together different branches of the historical record with precise prose and a sharp eye for human complexity.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDimitri Nasrallah, author of \u003cem\u003eHotline\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Elamin Abdelmahmoud, author of Son of Elsewhere","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"Gorgeous and gutting, \u003cem\u003eThe Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society\u003c\/em\u003e asks (screams, whispers): What makes us? Are we our pasts, all our histories and families and generational traumas stacked on top of each other like a piece of additive sculpture? Or are we our present, our choices, remaking ourselves each day in a continual act of becoming? Instead of answering with either\/or, this book says (screams, whispers), over and over again, \u003cem\u003eyes\u003c\/em\u003e.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eNatalie Zina Walschots, author of \u003cem\u003eHench\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Dimitri Nasrallah, author of Hotline","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eEstima was inspired to write this collection about Arab immigrants in Canada after Don Cherry made racist remarks in 2019 about “you people” not wearing a poppy for Remembrance Day. She tweeted about her grandfather who fought for Canada in World War II and went viral and spawned a feature essay entitled “Living Legacy” in \u003cem\u003eMaisonneuve Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe stories draw from the deep roots of the author’s Lebanese\/Syrian family in Canada. Her great-grandfather founded the first Syrian Orthodox church in Canada and the first Arabic-language newspaper in Canada, \u003cem\u003eAsh-Shehab\u003c\/em\u003e (the brilliant star). His son Victor was one of the few Arabs in the Canadian army during WWII, most notably in the Battle of Ortona. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSimilar to Jack Wang’s \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, this collection includes stories that explore historical and contemporary fiction genres and themes, illuminating Arab women’s early-twentieth-century struggles with traditional roles to contemporary issues of sex, gender, and race.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eEstima was inspired to write this collection about Arab immigrants in Canada after Don Cherry made racist remarks in 2019 about “you people” not wearing a poppy for Remembrance Day. 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The Lost Words
A beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world.
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It is also smaller in trim size, but longer. This is a book designed to be carried around by readers and read outdoors in nature.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA MAJOR U.K. AND INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRobert Macfarlane is a major literary and cultural figure in the U.K. His writings on environmental topics are frequently featured in the Guardian and Granta. He is a regular presence on television and hosted an adaptation of his book The Wild Places on BBC’s The Natural World. His travel book The Old Ways was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and Philip Pullman named it one of his best books of 2012. 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Crafted with the same tenderness as its sibling.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2020-10-27","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.","Width":"4.76","WidthCode":"in"}
The Lost Spells
The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.
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The Goat
A mountain goat living on the roof of a downtown apartment building? It’s too strange, even for Manhattan…
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Dangerous Memory
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Zalika Reid-Benta is a masterful storyteller with a light touch, a photographic recall, and a pitch-perfect ear for the ephemera we’d like to think of as youthful, but just can’t seem to shake. This is an unforgettable debut.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Paul Beatty","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Zalika Reid-Benta announces herself as an enormous voice for the coming decade (and one that is desperately needed). Not all must-read books are this enjoyable.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Gary Shteyngart","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Each story in Frying Plantain is achingly poignant, insightful, and funny; each a gem unto itself. Ms. Reid-Benta’s fully sympathetic protagonist, Kara Davis, is a girl who belongs to neither Canada nor Jamaica, despite the fact that both places are ‘home.’ Her family — loving, flawed, and wickedly at odds with one another — all demand her loyalty, and her loyal friends aren’t friends at all. 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In Canada, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet George Elliott Clarke named her a “Writer to Watch.” At the Banff Writing Studio, she worked with Greg Hollingshead and Janice Galloway, and she became close to Caroline Adderson.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTRONG INTEREST IN STORIES ABOUT DIASPORA COMMUNITIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRecent hits such as David Chariandy’s \u003cem\u003eBrother\u003c\/em\u003e, Mohsin Hamid’s \u003cem\u003eExit West\u003c\/em\u003e, and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/em\u003e have shown that there is a strong interest in stories set among diaspora communities.\u003cem\u003e Frying Plantain\u003c\/em\u003e’s evocation of the Canadian Caribbean community is another strong contender in this field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eFrom “Pig Head”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e On my first visit to Jamaica I saw a pig’s severed head. My grandmother’s sister Auntie had asked me to grab two bottles of Ting from the icebox and when I walked into the kitchen and pulled up the icebox lid there it was, its blood splattered and frozen thick on the bottles beneath it, its brown tongue lolling out from between its clenched teeth, the tip making a small dip in the ice water.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e My cousins were in the next room so I clamped my palm over my mouth to keep from screaming. They were all my age or younger, and during the five days I’d already been in Hanover they’d all spoken easily about the chickens they strangled for soup and they’d idly thrown stones at alligators for sport, side-eyeing me when I was too afraid to join in. I wanted to avoid a repeat of those looks, so I bit down on my finger to push the scream back down my throat.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e Only two days before I’d squealed when Rodney, who was ten like me, had wrung a chicken’s neck without warning; the jerk of his hands and the quick snap of the bone had made me fall back against the coops behind me. He turned to me after I’d silenced myself and his mouth and nose were twisted up as if he was deciding whether he was irritated with me or contemptuous or just amused.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Ah wah?” he asked. “Yuh nuh cook soup in Canada?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Sure we do,” I said, my voice a mumble. “The chicken is just dead first.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e He didn’t respond, and he didn’t say anything about it in front of our other cousins, but soon after they all treated me with a newfound delicacy. When the girls played Dandy Shandy with their friends they stopped asking me to be in the middle and when all of them climbed trees to pluck ripe mangoes, they no longer hung, loose-limbed, from the branches and tried to convince me to clamber up and join them. For the first three days of my visit, they’d at least tease me, broad smiles stretching their cheeks, and yell down, “This tree frighten yuh like how duppy frighten yuh?” Then they’d let leaves fall from their hands onto my hair and laugh when I tried to pick them out of my plaits. I’d fuss and grumble, piqued at the taunting but grateful for the inclusion, for being thought tough enough to handle the same mockery they inflicted on each other. But after the chicken, they didn’t goad me anymore and they only approached me for games like tag, for games they thought Canadian girls could stomach.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“What’s taking you so long?” My mother came up behind me and instead of waiting for me to answer, leaned forward and peered into the icebox, swallowing hard as she did. “Great,” she whispered. “Are you going to be traumatized by this?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I didn’t quite know what she meant — but I felt like the right answer was no, so I shook my head. My mother was like my cousins. I hadn’t seen her butcher any animals, but back home she stepped on spiders without flinching, she cussed out men who tried to reach for her in the street, and I couldn’t bear her scoffing at me for screaming at a pig’s head.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Eloise!” Nana called. My grandmother came into the kitchen from the backyard and stood next to us, her hands on her hips. The deep arch in her back made her breasts and belly protrude, and the way she stood with her legs apart reminded me of a pigeon.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I hear Auntie call out she want a drink from the fridge. That there is the freezer yuh nuh want that. Yuh know wah Bredda put in there? Kara canna see that, she nuh raise up for it.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I closed the lid,” said my mother. “Anyway, it was a pig’s head. It’s not like she saw the pig get slaughtered. She’s fine.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Kara’s a soft one. She canna handle these things.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I felt my mother take a deep breath in and I suddenly became aware of all the exposed knives in the kitchen and wondered if there was any way I could hide them without being noticed. We were only here for ten days and my mother and Nana had already gotten into two fights — one in the airport on the day we landed, the other two nights after — and Auntie had threatened to set the dogs on them if they didn’t calm down.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Mi thought Canada was supposed fi be a civilized place, how yuh two fight like the dogs them? Cha.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I wondered if all daughters fought with their mothers this way when they grew up and started to tear up just thinking about it. Nana looked at me.\u003cbr\/\u003e “See? She ah cry about the head.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “It’s not about the head,” said my mother. “She just cries over anything.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Like I say. 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This splendid collection marks her as a writer to watch.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“These stories are readable and relatable. They hit the sweet spot between having something to say and still being the kind of read you can immerse yourself in, a rare combination.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Frying Plantain deftly chips away at white dismissals of privilege, obscuring the lines between short story and novel . . . It documents a unique and complex cultural space that’s under threat, while acknowledging the challenges of living a hyphenated life. 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Frying Plantain
Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.
