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{"id":6818233090107,"title":"Annabel","handle":"annabel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOnly three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. 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Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as \"Annabel\" — is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHaunting, sweeping in scope, and stylistically reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides' \u003cem\u003eMiddlesex\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnnabel\u003c\/em\u003e is a compelling tale about one person's struggle to discover the truth about their birth and self in a culture that shuns contradiction.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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This book announces the arrival of a major writer.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"...a sprawling book filled with musical prose...","OtherText_Review_10":". . . Annabel is a novel about divisions, not only between the sexes but also between social classes and, perhaps most crucially, ways of being . . . Winter does a deft job of developing all the characters fully and making their motives understandable . . . It's to Winter's credit that both the fear and the beauty are given vivid expression in this finely crafted novel.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Barbara Carey","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_11":". . . a poignant and powerful first novel . . .","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Donna Bailey Nurse","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_12":"This is a remarkable first novel, an accomplished debut by an exciting new voice with a confident, mature style.","OtherText_Review_12_Auth":"Vanessa Berridge","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Daily Express","OtherText_Review_13":". . . beautifully paced, sometimes shocking and never prurient.","OtherText_Review_13_Auth":"Maggie Fergusson","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Intelligent Life Magazine","OtherText_Review_14":"Winter's dazzling debut addresses the riddle of gender and the tragedy of conformity with astonishing insight and eloquence.","OtherText_Review_14_Auth":"Richard Labonte","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Gay Calgary and Edmonton Magazine","OtherText_Review_15":". . . a confident, serious debut.","OtherText_Review_15_Auth":"Carrie O'Grady","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_16":". . . a captivating romantic novel with a happy ending.","OtherText_Review_16_Auth":"Jim Taylor","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Canadian Literature","OtherText_Review_17":"...a stunning novel, one of the rare kind that might well imbed itself permanently in a reader's psyche.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Rosalie MacEachern","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"New Glasgow News","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Emily Landau","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The Walrus","OtherText_Review_2":"[Kathleen Winter's] lyrical voice and her crystalline landscape are enchanting.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Sally Law","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_3":"Reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides' magnificent 2002 novel Middlesex, Winter's treatment of such a delicate issue is amazing and incredibly engaging. Her novel is written with immense sensitivity and grace, not to be missed.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Jim Piechota","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Bay Area Reporter","OtherText_Review_4":"Read it because it's a story told with sensitivity to language that compels to the last page, and read it because it asks the most existential of questions. Stripped of the trappings of gender, [Kathleen] Winter asks, what are we?","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":". . . utterly original . . . a haunting story of family, identity, and the universal yearning to belong.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"O Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"Annabel's strength lies in probing the dilemma of sexuality and self-knowledge. I have never read such an intimate portrait of a person struggling to live inside a self that the world sees as a dreadful mistake.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_7":"Annabel is a stunning and stirring debut that signals the long-overdue arrival of a literary talent.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Halifax Chronicle Herald","OtherText_Review_8":"Annabel is an unforgettable novel of struggles, personal and inter-personal, and Winter's empathetic voice does them justice in a way that connects reader to story. Destined to be one of the biggest novels out of Newfoundland this year, this is a story of isolation and a communication breakdown that breaks a family down, and breaks the reader down along with them.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Chad Pelley","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"St. John's Telegram","OtherText_Review_9":"A book like this, its topic and beautiful language, the unrelenting sorrow, Winter's insightful characterizations and utter sensitivity, is difficult to do justice to with these few words. I simply want to tell people: read this book. Read it though you know little or nothing about its subject or the author. It will open you up. It will change you.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Kathleen Winter's stunning debut novel, a national bestseller and is a beautifully sensitive story of family, identity, and the yearning to belong.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_10":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_11":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_12":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_13":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_14":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_15":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_16":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_4":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_5":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_6":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_7":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_8":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_9":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeCode_10":"04","PrizeCode_11":"04","PrizeCode_12":"04","PrizeCode_13":"04","PrizeCode_14":"01","PrizeCode_15":"05","PrizeCode_16":"05","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeCode_4":"04","PrizeCode_5":"04","PrizeCode_6":"04","PrizeCode_7":"04","PrizeCode_8":"03","PrizeCode_9":"01","PrizeName_0":"New York Times Editors' Choice","PrizeName_1":"Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year","PrizeName_10":"OLA Evergreen Award","PrizeName_11":"CBC Bookies: Best Overall Book","PrizeName_12":"CBC Bookies: Best Scene","PrizeName_13":"Orange Prize for Fiction","PrizeName_14":"Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award","PrizeName_15":"ReLit Awards: Novel","PrizeName_16":"IMPAC Dublin Literary Award","PrizeName_2":"Quill and Quire Books of the Year","PrizeName_3":"Amazon.ca Best Books of the Year","PrizeName_4":"Amazon.ca First Novel Award","PrizeName_5":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_6":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_7":"Governor General's Award: Fiction","PrizeName_8":"Vancouver Sun Top 10 Canadian Books of the Year","PrizeName_9":"Independent Literary Awards","PrizeYear_0":"2011","PrizeYear_1":"2010","PrizeYear_10":"2011","PrizeYear_11":"2011","PrizeYear_12":"2011","PrizeYear_13":"2011","PrizeYear_14":"2011","PrizeYear_15":"2011","PrizeYear_16":"2011","PrizeYear_2":"2010","PrizeYear_3":"2010","PrizeYear_4":"2011","PrizeYear_5":"2010","PrizeYear_6":"2010","PrizeYear_7":"2010","PrizeYear_8":"2010","PrizeYear_9":"2010","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2010-06-26","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"Anansi Book Club Editions","ShortDescription":"Kathleen Winter's stunning debut novel, a national bestseller and is a beautifully sensitive story of family, identity, and the yearning to belong.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Annabel
Kathleen Winter's stunning debut novel, a national bestseller and is a beautifully sensitive story of family, identity, and the yearning to belong.
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Under the Hawthorn Tree
Under the Hawthorn Tree is a story of first love and forbidden love, set against the backdrop of the final days of the Cultural Revolution.
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Dr. Brinkley's Tower
Dr. Brinkley’s Tower is a sensational, passionate story of jealousy and greed set against the backdrop of Mexico in the 1930s.
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{"id":6817705918523,"title":"The Juliet Stories","handle":"the-juliet-stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction and selected as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJuliet Friesen is ten years old when her family moves to Nicaragua. It is 1984, the height of Nicaragua's post-revolutionary war, and the peace-activist Friesens have come to protest American involvement. In the midst of this tumult, Juliet's family lives outside of the boundaries of ordinary life. They've escaped, and the ordinary rules don't apply. Threat is pervasive, danger is real, but the extremity of the situation also produces a kind of euphoria, protecting Juliet's family from its own cracks and conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Juliet's younger brother becomes sick with cancer, their adventure ends abruptly. The Friesens return to Canada only to find that their lives beyond Nicaragua have become the war zone. 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Snyder maintains an engaging blog called Obscure CanLit Mama, but if there’s any justice she’ll soon have the option of dropping that first word.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Ian McGillis","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_1":"... well-crafted and imaginative ... Snyder’s tone and style is vivid and compelling ...","OtherText_Review_10":"Carry Snyder is a writer that we’re bound to hear more of in the future. Her razor-sharp prose is insightful and rich throughout.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Rover Arts","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Zoe Whittall","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"... a moving story, beautifully told.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Emily M. Keeler","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"Fans of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast will love this one.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_4":"... excellent ... 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The Juliet Stories
A stunning novel set against the backdrop of the political turmoil in 1980s revolutionary Nicaragua.
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{"id":6817704607803,"title":"People Park","handle":"people-park","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island city has engaged the illustrationist Raven, who promises to deliver the most astonishing spectacle its residents have ever seen. As the entire island comes together for the event, we meet an unforgettable cross-section of its inhabitants, from activists to nihilists, art stars to athletes, families to inveterate loners. Soon, however, what has promised to be a triumph of civic harmony begins to reveal its shadow side. 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People Park
A tour de force of eerily prescient, grotesque, and hilarious observation and a narrative of gripping, unrelenting suspense.
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The Emperor of Lies
Winner of the prestigious August Prize, The Emperor of Lies is a powerfully moving story set in World War II Poland.
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Time Warped
"A fascinating and at times mind-boggling book that will change the way you think about time." — Financial Times
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Still Counting the Dead
BBC correspondent Frances Harrison covers the attacks on Sri Lanka’s Tamils, civilians, and rebels alike by their own government.
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Doppler
A bestseller in Scandinavia — Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose.
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{"id":6816230473787,"title":"Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility","handle":"clear-skies-no-wind-100-visibility","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet against the divergent landscape of British Columbia — from the splendours of nature to its immense dangers, from urban grease and grit to dry, desert towns — \u003cem\u003eClear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility\u003c\/em\u003e examines human beings and their many frailties with breathtaking insight and accuracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eThéodora Armstrong peoples her stories with characters as richly various — and as compelling — as her settings. A soon-to-be father and haute cuisine chef mercilessly berates his staff while facing his lack of preparedness for parenthood. A young girl revels in the dark drama of the murder of a girl from her neighbourhood. A novice air-traffic specialist must come to terms with his first loss — the death of a pilot — on his watch. 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The writing in this collection boils with meaning, beauty and menace, and signals the liftoff of an exciting new literary talent.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Michael Christie, author of The Beggar's Garden","OtherText_Review_1":"These fresh, edgy, unflinching stories about contemporary life on the urban and rural West Coast will resonate with readers at all stages of life: parents watching their children grow up too quickly, young couples starting families, brothers and sisters at crossroads in life coping with the fraying adulthood brings to childhood bonds.","OtherText_Review_10":"…an exceptional debut","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Zoe Whittall","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_11":"With this impressive debut collection, Théodora Armstrong establishes herself as a fresh and multi-faceted talent, capable of mining everyday human dramas to create evocative and lasting tales about the human condition.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"PRISM International","OtherText_Review_12":"…Armstrong writes beautifully…","OtherText_Review_12_Auth":"Georgie Binks","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Christine Mazur","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"[Armstrong] is a fresh, new voice in Canadian short fiction, but a fresh, new voice that’s already proven her to be a force in the form. 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Clear Skies is the kind of collection that leaves you satisfied, but wanting more.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Michelle Lalonde","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_5":"Théodora Armstrong’s début collection launches House of Anansi Press’s new short-fiction imprint, Astoria, in impressive fashion. This is a writer to watch, and a book not to be missed... These darkly intimate and subtly heart-breaking pieces are pure pleasure to read. Armstrong is an electrifying new voice on the short fiction scene.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Stacey Madden","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_6":"Armstrong’s themes of agency and inevitability are distilled to their essence and given another ironic twist, and her typically spare language is honed to a fine edge.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Steven W. Beattie","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_7":"A worthwhile, well-honed collection that's probing and nuanced... Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility also highlights an author whose regional scope ought to be appreciated well past the borders of British Columbia.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Brett Josef Grubisic","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_8":"The stories in this collection are a rare phenomenon, capable of taking the reader to places so familiar one forgets they’ve never been there. The writing is crisp, taut, and evocative, and each story has a separate pleasure to give. Théodora Armstrong is a terrifically talented young writer, and this is a superb début.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo","OtherText_Review_9":"[Théodora Armstrong’s] stories are direct and non-apologetic, fluid and intelligent, and especially good at delineating a desire to connect and the lack of ability to make that connection.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Mark Anthony Jarman, author of 19 Knives and Ireland’s Eye","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\"Théodora Armstrong's stories are brash and brainy.\" - Mark Anthony Jarman","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2013-02-22","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\"Théodora Armstrong's stories are brash and brainy.\" - Mark Anthony Jarman","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
"Théodora Armstrong's stories are brash and brainy." - Mark Anthony Jarman
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{"id":6816229720123,"title":"Maggie \u0026 Me","handle":"maggie-amp-me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLong-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e' selection for Memoir of the Year.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning to end.\" — Diana Athill, Costa Book Award–winning author of Somewhere Towards the End \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrank McCourt's \u003cem\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e crossed with Billy Elliot, Maggie \u0026amp; Me is a unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Thatcher years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOctober 12, 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. 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He lives in Brighton, U.K.\u003c\/p\u003e","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Barr, Damian","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLong-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e' selection for Memoir of the Year.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning to end.\" — Diana Athill, Costa Book Award–winning author of Somewhere Towards the End \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrank McCourt's \u003cem\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e crossed with Billy Elliot, Maggie \u0026 Me is a unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Thatcher years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOctober 12, 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Maggie Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDamian, his sister, and his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as Maggie takes hold: she snatches school milk, smashes the unions, and makes greed good. Following Maggie's advice, Damian works hard and plans his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life and — in spite of violence, strikes, AIDS, and Clause 28 — manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaggie \u0026 Me\u003c\/em\u003e is a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's Britain; a story of growing up gay in a straight world and coming out the other side in spite of, and maybe because of, the Iron Lady.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770893801","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770893801\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"Personal Memoirs","NumberOfPages":"256","OtherText_Review_0":"Maggie \u0026 Me is a tremendous, surprising read.... [it's] a book that's hard to put down, laugh out loud funny and profoundly moving.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Olivia Cole","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"British GQ","OtherText_Review_1":"... a fine memoir about the drama, pain and humour of growing up gay, gifted and poor... [Barr] has an uncanny ability to employ wit to flip you from a wince to a smile -- and sometimes right back again. When need be, he conveys maximum visceral impact, like a Scottish Frank McCourt of Angela's Ashes fame.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Douglas J. Johnston","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"This memoir of deprivation and survival is shrewdly constructed and written with a winning dry humour.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Adam Mars-Jones","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_3":"Undoubtedly, many readers will be riled at the thought of this positive spin on Thatcher, but Barr is writing from his own, unique perspective - he knows she almost screwed his life up completely, but also acknowledges that she was a glimmer of light in the darkness. It’s a compelling read, which I thoroughly recommend.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Janice Forsyth","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Herald Scotland","OtherText_Review_4":"...an excellent read, and a vital reminder of how much we are shaped by the culture which surrounds us.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Andrew Losowsky","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The Huffington Post","OtherText_Review_5":"It’s too bad [Margaret Thatcher] didn’t live to read this book. She’d have been proud of Barr’s resilience—and his generosity of spirit.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Dafna Izenberg","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_Review_6":"The writing is beautiful...the evocation of his childhood tender and affectionate, the summoning up of a particular time and place pin-sharp. A poignant and often humorous memoir, full of energy and life.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Andrew Holgate","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_7":"...an affecting memoir without cliches.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Arifa Akbar","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Independent","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small-town Scotland during the Thatcher years.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Green Carnation Prize","PrizeName_1":"The Sunday Times' Memoir of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2013","PrizeYear_1":"2013","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2013-04-11","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small-town Scotland during the Thatcher years.","Width":"5.3125","WidthCode":"in"}
Maggie & Me
A unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small-town Scotland during the Thatcher years.
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War defined my entire childhood and all but the last two years of my adult life. It was a time when neighbor turned against neighbor, schools were divided, friendships and romances broken off. A time when suspicions grew, movements were restricted, freedoms curtailed, and people’s rights were compromised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u2028\u2028\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the government of Sri Lanka in May 2009, I worked on an essay for a magazine about my experiences as a child growing up in Sri Lanka. The editor and I went back and forth several times, and during the process it became clear that the editor wanted a clearly delineated tale about villains and saints, uncomplicated by the nuances of my own, real experience. While I understood that American newspaper culture looked for black and white, the story I was writing was not so simple, and I needed to place it within fiction in order to allow it the necessary space. \u003c\/p\u003e\u2028\u2028\u003cp\u003eI wrote down seven hundred words about several very different families who lived on one lane, and sent it to one of my brothers. He happened to be online and we started chatting about what I had written. He reminded me of the riots, and what happened that day when we were very young and interpreted the world differently than we do now. It was the stuff of online chats, those half-sentences lacking punctuation, but right away I realized that this was exactly what I had been harkening toward. I didn’t want official statements and propaganda to be the only story heard. I wanted to give people a sense of who we once were, who we became, and how we all lost something that was worth fighting for in that shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u2028 \u2028\u003cp\u003eAs a political journalist I understand perfectly how easy it is to reinterpret or misinterpret anything that is said or done, how necessary it is to stay focused on a single message. When I write short political pieces, my opinions are always clear and, often, unforgiving. Fiction is the place where I look for the truth, because it allows for conversation. When I write fiction I am interested in engaging with readers. To see what they think, to hear what they have “taken” from the book, what I intended and what I did not. There is more truth to be had in a communal evocation of it than there is in single-person reportage. 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With the publication of the book coinciding with the fourth anniversary of the war’s end, I feel there will be a chance to get this message out both to Sri Lankans and to an American audience: wars can and do end, peace is possible so long as there is acknowledgment of wrongdoing to be set beside the necessity of forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Lovingly written, historically rich and compassionate to all sides of the turmoil.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"…with prose both lingering and breathtaking – the children, even the lane’s bully who could have been different with just the occasional kindness, will charm you, tease you, play with you, and when they leave you, they’ll shatter your heart.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"BookDragon, book review blog produced by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC)","OtherText_Review_2":"By the time Freeman’s characters are finally tested, some found wanting, some proving to be caring neighbours after all, the reader is thoroughly invested in the fate of all the residents on Sal Mal Lane.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Joel Yanofsky","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_3":"Ru Freeman is a tender-hearted fireball.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Hope Mills","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Millions","OtherText_Review_4":"There is something positively Russian in the feel of this book – in its full-bodied evocation of domestic lives...which, beyond logic and any ability I might have to convey it, draw us in almost hypnotically.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Kathleen Byrne","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"It is the Heraths, and especially their children — Suren, Rashmi, Nihil and little Devi — who are at the heart of this generous story…They are wondrous to behold, with their intelligence, imagination and innocence. I don’t know that I’ve seen children more opulently depicted in fiction since Dickens.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Cristina Garcia","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The New York Times","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"This epic novel explores the lives of the families that live on Sal Mal Lane and the heartbreaking ways this once harmonious community turns to war.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2013-04-29","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"This epic novel explores the lives of the families that live on Sal Mal Lane and the heartbreaking ways this once harmonious community turns to war.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
On Sal Mal Lane
This epic novel explores the lives of the families that live on Sal Mal Lane and the heartbreaking ways this once harmonious community turns to war.
