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{"id":7168143458363,"title":"Disembark","handle":"disembark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, 2025 Fred Kerner Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAward–winning author Jen Currin presents remarkable and sometimes magical new stories of queer friendship and love, against the backdrop of city life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003cem\u003eDisembark\u003c\/em\u003e feature queer characters navigating new worlds, new circumstances, and new methods of relating to the people around them. With resonant imagery and clear, lyrical prose, Jen Currin weaves vibrant narratives showcasing queer relationships—be they platonic, romantic, or somewhere in between. 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Award–winning author Jen Currin presents remarkable and sometimes magical new stories of queer friendship and love, against the backdrop of city life.
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The Withdrawal Method
Haunting, fresh and humorous, Malla's inventive stories reveal the strange and wondrous found in familiar situations.
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Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth
In stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.
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Planet Earth
International award–winning stories of life and love in the midst of planetary decline
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As she struggles with her health, amongst an increasingly indifferent husband and volatile mother, she encounters unimaginable depths of loneliness and realizes that, even after she recovers, her life will never be the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the collection progresses, it picks up the threads of other people’s lives that have also been abruptly upended –- through death, divorce, illness and estrangements –- leaving them shocked and disoriented as they try to navigate their lives in new directions. A Montreal cookbook author remembers her stepmother's exquisite taste in dinner parties, and her failed marriage — both of which she seemed to inherit. An abandoned wife catches her glamorous author friend stealing from an old, billionaire widower. 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These stories of Montreal are imbued with wisdom, grace and, often, a great deal of humour and one hears in them the echo of Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, and even Mordecai Richler.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid Bezmozgis, author of The Free World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Chez L'arabe is a deliciously unwholesome mixture of physical disorder and family secrets and sexual obsession and Montreal. Toxically intoxicating.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStephen Marche, Esquire columnist and author of How Shakespeare Changed Everything and Love and the Mess We're In\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Stephen Marche, Esquire columnist and author of How Shakespeare Changed Everything and Love and the Mess We're In","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Silcoff’s wonderful descriptive observations have, unsurprisingly perhaps, a pensive, unrushed quality…these stories feel generous, expansive.” — \u003cstrong\u003eEmily Donaldson, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Emily Donaldson","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Mireille Silcoff’s “Chez L’Arabe” is an impressive debut short story collection by any measure.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRenee Ghert-Zand, \u003cem\u003eThe Times of Israel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Renee Ghert-Zand","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The Times of Israel","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“…Silcoff’s stories remain unruffled, polished and mature, as smart and elegant as the characters they depict.” — \u003cstrong\u003eAyelet Tsabari, \u003cem\u003eShtetl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Ayelet Tsabari","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Shtetl","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“Silcoff’s languid and satirical authorial voice evokes another big Montreal talent, Mordecai Richler. Like Richler's work, her fiction is poignant, hilarious and trenchantly observant about contemporary urban life, both in the detailed depictions of its inanities and its splendours. The linked-stories are told from the point of view of a woman in her mid-thirties, a secular Jew recovering from a spinal cord malfunction, who recounts her interactions with the people in her life with a mixture of sympathy and savvy wit. 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Chez l'arabe
A dazzling debut collection from award-winning journalist and New York Times Magazine contributor Mireille Silcoff.
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Watermark
From Christy Ann Conlin comes a breathtaking and unforgettable collection about how the briefest moment can shape us forever.
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A touching, fascinating read.” — \u003cstrong\u003eSahar Delijani\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Sahar Delijani","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Iran is a complicated country with thousands of years of history. In Divided Loyalties, with a deft hand, Nilofar Shidmehr takes us through the suffering of its people over the last four decades. An important book that sheds light on how a people can survive their darkest years.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMusharraf Ali Farooqi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Musharraf Ali Farooqi","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“These complex and intimate stories of Iranian women are like nothing I’ve ever read before. 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I might even stay longer — for six months, a year, or, who knows, the rest of my life — if Maman and I can get along now that the source of our separation is gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor does it matter that my mother wrongly accused me of siding with my father. In truth, Papa and I had a row at the end of our trip and he accused me of the exactly the same thing: of supporting her. This is what our parents did to me and Milaad all our lives. Each wanted us in their camp when they fought with each other. And once they made peace, they would divide their children between them. Milaad was hers and I was his.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy situation was much worse than my brother’s during the times when our parents quarreled. As a girl, I was supposed to side with my mother. This wouldn’t have been difficult, if her true reason for being angry was that my father was a miser. We lived very close to poverty because the only money that came into the home was from our mother’s meager salary. Papa used all of his money to buy property. However, the real reason behind my mother’s anger was to control my father and keep him, like Milaad, under her thumb. I believed my father should have his independence as much as I wanted to have mine. I wanted to have freedom of association — to like, love, and assemble with whomever I chose, including my aunt Raazi, Papa’s younger sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntering the arrivals area and dragging my suitcase behind me, I look around for my mother and see her, along with Milaad, walking toward me. In her black winter coat, slacks, and wimple hijab, she looks slim and miserable. I speed up and we meet halfway. She throws herself into my embrace and wails. “You see, Maana, your mother is a widow now.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople standing nearby look at us with compassion. “Sorry for your loss,” they whisper as they pass. The other passengers laugh with joy as they reunite with their loved ones. Their families, dressed mostly in bright colors, shower them with flowers and kisses. I pass Maman a clean napkin I’ve saved for my own crying and hold her until her sobbing subsides.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF IRANIAN REVOLUTION IN FEBRUARY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eTimed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, we expect considerable media attention for this book in February 2019. (The Iranian people overthrew the last Shah of the Persian monarchy on February 11, 1979, and brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power. 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Panoramic yet intimate, they enact a kind of investigative surgery, each one plunging beneath the surface of a situation and penetrating it to the cellular level before re-emerging only a few minutes or hours later to reveal the context surrounding what has come to pass.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEVENT Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"EVENT Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2019-02-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Divided Loyalties
A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.
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Both focus less on a particular climax, and more on the ongoing understated crises of expectations: the ones we put on ourselves, and the ones other people have of us. Furthermore, both authors are masterful when it comes to language, churning out brilliant turns of phrase worth revisiting….Thirteen Shells quietly captures each painful gasp of growing up: the anxiety and shame, along with the treasures found along the way.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Owen Sound Sun-Times","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“...Thirteen Shells is enticing, reminding us of the difficulty and joy of simply growing up and getting on with it.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRory Runnells, \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Rory Runnells","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“richly detailed...There's a grittiness and emotional dynamism in these... tales” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“Nadia Bozak's gorgeous collection of linked short stories, Thirteen Shells is drawing tons of praise, including comparisons to Alice Munro, for its deft rendering of a young girl coming of age...Bozak's funny and poignant prose connects us with Shell's deeply relatable longings.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“As a vivid picture of growing up in the ‘80’s, Thirteen Shells is a landmark.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe London Yodeller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"CBC Candy Palmater show","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2016-05-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s."}
Thirteen Shells
Told in the tradition of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s.
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This isn’t out of a desire to play coy, but rather an admission that problems involving relationships don’t have easy resolutions that can be clearly expressed.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10":"\u003cp\u003e“Coady’s Giller-winning book of stories ranges wildly in style and content, but taken as a whole is an ideal introduction to one of Canada’s finest writers.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Jared Bland","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003e“A damned good read.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlberta Views\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Lori Hahnel","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Alberta Views","OtherText_Review_12":"\u003cp\u003e“Coady’s collection is … a riddle that never arrives at an answer, offering pleasure in the discomfort of people at cross-purposes; a kind of messy realism that can be both rewarding and, at times, challenging in its hesitance to give a reader certainty.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoom Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Room Magazine","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Alex Good","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Since 1998’s Strange Heaven, her Governor General’s Award–nominated debut novel, Coady has harmonized humour and heart in prose that rings true. 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They are unique.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Jennifer Hunter","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Hellgoing is a superb collection, end to end, and easily one of the best books I’ve read so far in 2013.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Michael Hingston","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Toting their trauma, Coady’s characters repel these attacks from fathers, doctors,lovers and the legion of others that ‘know best’ by learning “to hurt and insult him aseffortlessly as he did me.” This rebellion lets Coady’s wicked wit shine, and while compassionfrom the reader is complicated by this attitude, Coady always delivers a knockout punch atthe end of each story,“ like picking at your cuticles and being surprised when they start toache and bleed.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTelegraph-Journal's Salon Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Mike Landry","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Telegraph-Journal's Salon Magazine","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“One of the hallmarks of Lynn Coady's work is her shrewd examination of the underexplored byways of human psychology.Coady is a writer who increasingly commands attention and respect” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Jeet Heer","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“It is the author's demonstrable strength as an ironist that prevents these stories- and these characters from appearing completely hopeless.[Coady's] sharp sense of humour serves to humanize even the most vicious or clueless figures in the book. There is searing honesty here about humankind's inability, or unwillingness, to make an effort at connection, but the author's own humanity rescues her vision from descending into despair or nihlism.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Steven W Beattie","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“Powerful.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Chris Benjamin","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Atlantic Books Today","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Coady gives us nine new stories, each grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeName_0":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_1":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_2":"Amazon.ca Best Books: Editors' Picks","PrizeName_3":"Globe and Mail Top 10 Books","PrizeYear_0":"2013","PrizeYear_1":"2013","PrizeYear_2":"2013","PrizeYear_3":"2013","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2013-07-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Coady gives us nine new stories, each grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Hellgoing
Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Coady gives us nine new stories, each grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.
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Act Normal
In his first collection in twenty years, Greg Hollingshead returns with comic new stories about sex, art, and the daily risk of having accidents.
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You Are Not What We Expected
This collection is a portrait of a Jewish community and the secular and religious families who inhabit it and the tensions that exist there.
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The writing is immediate, bold, and original. Lean, powerful dialogue.” — \u003cstrong\u003eCarla Gillis, \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Carla Gillis","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Throughout Specimen, Kovalyova pushes boundaries, going beyond “routine procedures.” She offers readers a glimpse through a literary microscope, and into our own dark spaces.” — \u003cstrong\u003eTraci Skuce, \u003cem\u003eCoastal Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Traci Skuce","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Coastal Spectator","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“… such a varied collection testifies to a roaming imagination and willingness to push the boundaries of form and technique.” — \u003cstrong\u003eSteven Beattie, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Steven Beattie","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Specimen deserves an attentive readership. Don’t let anyone tell you Kovalyova is a scientist — she is a humanist dreamer with a science day job.” — \u003cstrong\u003eAndre Van Loon, \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Andre Van Loon","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Like her, many of Kovalyova’s characters are scientists, and she equips them with language that is both rigorous and beautiful; …original, odd, and compelling mix of sci-fi–flavoured literature” — \u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Croll, \u003cem\u003eGeorgia Straight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Jennifer Croll","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“Specimen combines the fresh perspective of a writer beginning her career with the confidence and impact of a veteran author.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“whip-smart debut story collection” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetro, Bookworm Column\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Metro, Bookworm Column","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“I love it when impressive new work by a debut writer takes me by surprise. That’s how I experienced this series of fascinating short stories by Irina Kovalyova… Don’t assume that these stylistic innovations or the scientific nature of the content take away from the work’s emotional power. Kovalyova’s taut prose – not a word is wasted – tells stories about fear, ambition and love…there's no doubt great things are coming from this writer. Watch out for her.” — \u003cstrong\u003eSusan G. Cole, \u003cem\u003eNOW\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Susan G. 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Specimen
A bold debut collection of short stories that explore the intersection of science and the human heart.
