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{"id":6813791027259,"title":"Clifford","handle":"clifford","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFirewater \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Harold Johnson returns to his childhood home in a northern Indigenous community for his brother Clifford’s funeral, the first thing his eyes fall on is a chair. It stands on three legs, the fourth broken off and missing. So begins a journey through the past, a retrieval of recollections of his silent, powerful Swedish father; his formidable Cree mother; and his brother Clifford, a precocious young boy who is drawn to the mysterious workings of the universe. As the night unfolds, memories of Clifford surface in Harold’s mind’s eye. Memory, fiction, and fantasy collide, and Clifford comes to life as the scientist he was meant to be, culminating in his discovery of the Grand Unified Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExquisitely crafted, funny, visionary, and wholly moving, Clifford is an extraordinary work that embraces myriad forms of storytelling. 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Heartache and hardship are no match for the disarming whimsy, the layered storytelling shot through with love. The power of land, the pull of family, the turbulence of poverty are threads woven together with explorations of reality, tackling truth with a trickster slant.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Clifford is a story only Harold Johnson could tell. By turns soft and harsh, intellectual and emotional, Johnson weaves truth, fiction, science, and science fiction into a tapestry that is rich with meaning and maybes. A natural storyteller, Johnson seeks imagined pasts and futurity with equal parts longing and care. This work allows readers and writers the possibility of new and ancient modes of storytelling.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Tracey Lindberg, author of Birdie","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Harold R. Johnson is a wonderful writer, and Clifford is his best work yet. For fans of Jack Finney and Richard Matheson, this terrific book is a wonderfully human tale of memory both bitter and sweet, as well as a poignant exploration of time’s hold over all of us.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award–winning author of Quantum Night","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Clifford is unlike anything I’ve read — it is at once a story of science and magic, love and loss, and a case for the infinite potential of humanity. It is a book of profound wisdom — an unpacking of the deepest truths of science in an effort to transform the pain of grief and regret into healing and forgiveness.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Patti Laboucane-Benson, author of The Outside Circle","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBESTSELLING AUTHOR:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHarold R. 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The other end of the board, an eight-foot two-by-four, that he didn’t trim off, either because he didn’t want to spend time sawing it, or because he would get in trouble for wasting wood, was left jutting out on the other side of the post. “That piece of plywood is the shield. Now I’m going to come down the hill on that bicycle. That's my horse. And this” — a pole about six feet long — “is my lance.”\u003c\\\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“You watch.” He took me by the shoulders and stood me off to the side. “Now you’re going to see how it was done.”\u003c\\\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe came off that bit of hill on that bicycle that didn’t have any tires, just bare metal rims that rattled as he picked up speed. The hill, because the bicycle didn’t have any petals and he needed the assistance of gravity. One end of his lance tucked up under his arm, the other end — “You have to hit the shield right dead centre. That’s the way they did it”— out in front of the bicycle that had a fair bit of hurry as he came past me.\u003c\\\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd he did it.\u003c\\\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI was the witness.\u003c\\\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe lance did hit the shield right dead centre. A solid hit.\u003c\\\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe shield spun away, pivoted on the single nail driven into the top of the post, and the other end of the board spun around, exactly like he planned it, exactly like he told me it was going to work. Except I don’t think he expected the long end of the two-by-four to come around so quickly and catch him on the back of the head.\u003c\\\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI pick up the hoop. 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Clifford
A moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.
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{"id":6818430615611,"title":"Cockroach","handle":"cockroach","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCockroach\u003c\/em\u003e is as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hage's bestselling and critically acclaimed first book, \u003cem\u003eDe Niro's Game\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal's restless immigrant community, where a self-described thief has just tried but failed to commit suicide. Rescued against his will, the narrator is obliged to attend sessions with a well-intentioned but naive therapist. 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This sets the story in motion, leading us back to the narrator's violent childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky emigre cafes where everyone has a tale, and out into the frozen night-time streets of Montreal, where the thief survives on the edge, imagining himself to be a cockroach invading the lives of the privileged, but wilfully blind, citizens who surround him. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2008, \u003cem\u003eCockroach\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. 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Cockroach's finely wrought scenes build in tension toward a conclusion that's fitting and yet unpredictable...Readers are bound to be seduced.","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Kevin Chong","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"CBC.ca","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"Cockroach echoes Hage's trademark concern for life's losers, for the dispossessed, the troubled and the despairing...In a novel laced with dark humour and scorn for the complacency toward suffering in contemporary society, Hage dissects the immigrant experience with incisiveness and a good degree of aplomb.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"London Free Press","OtherText_Review_3":"Cockroach is an unforgettable, good read.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Banipal 36","OtherText_Review_4":"Hage has done it again. He has produced an amazingly original and brilliant novel that shows he is no one-hit wonder, but a major force in Canadian literature.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_5":"The best novel I read this year was Rawi Hage's Cockroach...which tells the story of an ungrateful immigrant, filled with angst and attitude, in a Montreal which could be Kafka's Prague. It is a dark book, narrated with verve and brilliance. It made me jump for joy.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Colm Toibin","OtherText_Review_6":"The things that make Rawi Hage a major literary talent - and Cockroach as essential reading as its predecessor [De Niro's Game] - include freshness, gut wrenching lyricism, boldness, emotional restraint, intellectual depth, historical sense, political subversiveness and uncompromising compassion.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_7":"...a tour de force novel of fearsome wit, skilled prose, and impressive imagination...A beautiful, compelling, original work, one of the finest novels of the year.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_8":"Cockroach reveals Hage to be no mere fluke, but a fearless talent with his best years ahead.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_9":"Hage is definitely the real deal...[Cockroach is] powerful, poetic...a near-thriller; you won't be able to put it down...The prose is tight, the haunting imagery beautiful and unsettling, and the setting vividly evoked.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Now Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Rawi Hage's second novel combines an uncompromising vision of humanity with razor-sharp portraits of society's outsiders.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_4":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_5":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_6":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"01","PrizeCode_4":"04","PrizeCode_5":"04","PrizeCode_6":"03","PrizeName_0":"IMPAC Dublin Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"Governor General's Literary Awards: Fiction","PrizeName_2":"Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal","PrizeName_3":"QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction","PrizeName_4":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_5":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_6":"Globe and Mail Top 100 Best Books of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2010","PrizeYear_1":"2008","PrizeYear_2":"2008","PrizeYear_3":"2008","PrizeYear_4":"2008","PrizeYear_5":"2008","PrizeYear_6":"2008","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2008-09-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Rawi Hage's second novel combines an uncompromising vision of humanity with razor-sharp portraits of society's outsiders.","Width":"5.3","WidthCode":"in"}
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Rawi Hage's second novel combines an uncompromising vision of humanity with razor-sharp portraits of society's outsiders.
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{"id":6819003695163,"title":"Crowd of Sounds","handle":"crowd-of-sounds","description":"Once in a long while a lyric poet comes along whose technique, emotional pitch, and intellect combine in sublime balance and take poetry to a new level. Witness Adam Sol.\n\nSol's work is exhilarating in its range. Here he is gentle and mournful, attuned to his surroundings, and suddenly over here he mounts a sneak attack and hits us with erotic joy, erotic threat, history, elegy, comic absurdity, and acts of disturbing ventriloquism somehow stitching it all together with a tightly scored thematic coherence.\n\nFor once our eyes are not our first concern, Sol writes, and in poem after poem, as he conducts jay, wasp, streetcar, busker, and lover's breath, he awakens our listening. These poems are about music but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence.","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:32-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T15:36:44-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Sol Adam","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2003-04-01"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":40249577111611,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846885","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Crowd of Sounds - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":118,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887846885","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324495183931,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"width":396,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a9573a09-5df2-43cc-bd78-243304677c81.jpg?v=1678596676","width":396}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"Once in a long while a lyric poet comes along whose technique, emotional pitch, and intellect combine in sublime balance and take poetry to a new level. Witness Adam Sol.\n\nSol's work is exhilarating in its range. Here he is gentle and mournful, attuned to his surroundings, and suddenly over here he mounts a sneak attack and hits us with erotic joy, erotic threat, history, elegy, comic absurdity, and acts of disturbing ventriloquism somehow stitching it all together with a tightly scored thematic coherence.\n\nFor once our eyes are not our first concern, Sol writes, and in poem after poem, as he conducts jay, wasp, streetcar, busker, and lover's breath, he awakens our listening. These poems are about music but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence."}
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Adam Sol's sublime poems are about music, but they are also about the silence it breaks, and the inevitable recurrence of that silence.
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{"id":6582728032315,"title":"De Niro's Game","handle":"de-niros-game","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. In Rawi Hage's unforgettable novel, winner of the 2008 IMPAC Prize, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two young men caught in Lebanon's civil war. Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown to adulthood in war torn Beirut. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and consolidate power through crime; or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known. Bassam chooses one path: obsessed with leaving Beirut, he embarks on a series of petty crimes to finance his departure. 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De Niro's Game
A-List edition of Rawi Hage's classic novel De Niro's Game, with a new introduction by Colm Toibin.
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{"id":6818955919419,"title":"Drift","handle":"drift","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat are we thinking at any given moment? What happens to a thought as that moment, on its way to oblivion, collides with its successor?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRambunctious, witty, joyous, and bittersweet, drift is an investigation conducted by a truly unfettered imagination. In fluid, sparkling cadences, Kevin Connolly's poems let the mind's downtime have the stage for a change -- the desert sky transformed; Spring Break as viewed by passing skipjacks; narratives of danger and dream narrative; a meditation on the business end of a sea cucumber; figures of history disfigured and left to wander the consumer grid -- such are the entirely odd, entirely current events in Connolly's world, a realm that stands at an acute angle from the place we normally live in but which we all seem to drift into. 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As one of Connolly's own high-voltage sonnets states, what stops the heart starts the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003edrift\u003c\/em\u003e's constant juxtaposition of abundance and loneliness, we hear what it is to confront a new century, having quite likely failed during the last. We're reminded, by a voice unlike any other on the Canadian landscape, that our solitude is painful yet precious.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Drift
A Trillium Book Award for Poetry winner, this collection reminds us that our solitude is painful, yet precious.
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{"id":6899075383355,"title":"Dual Citizens","handle":"dual-citizens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin comes an intimate and compelling novel of motherhood, love, a search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll her life, Lark Brossard felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliant pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally by Lawrence Wheelock, a filmmaker who is both Lark’s employer and her occasional lover. When Wheelock denies her what she longs for most — a child — Lark is forced to re-examine a life marked by unrealized ambitions and thwarted desires. As she takes charge of her destiny, Lark comes to rely on Robin in ways she never could have imagined. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this meditation on motherhood, sisterhood, desire, and self-knowledge, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complex path towards fulfillment as an artist and as a human being.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-06-27T18:09:08-04:00","created_at":"2022-06-27T17:25:33-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","Adult Bestseller","Book Club Pick","By (author) Ohlin Alix","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2019-06-04"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2295,"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":40499144458299,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487004866","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dual Citizens - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":380,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487004866","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40499145408571,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487004873","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dual Citizens - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487004873","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40499145703483,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487004880","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dual Citizens - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487004880","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6b4d2a5d-03db-49c2-9b03-9b617b74500f.jpg?v=1678602821"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6b4d2a5d-03db-49c2-9b03-9b617b74500f.jpg?v=1678602821","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"A graphic pattern is in shades of blue and green shapes with grey lines in between. 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ÒTouchingÉ Dual Citizens has a lot in common with Zadie SmithÕs Swing Time and Claire MessudÕs The Burning Girl.ÓÑWall Street Journal.","id":23324569665595,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6b4d2a5d-03db-49c2-9b03-9b617b74500f.jpg?v=1678602821"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6b4d2a5d-03db-49c2-9b03-9b617b74500f.jpg?v=1678602821","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin comes an intimate and compelling novel of motherhood, love, a search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll her life, Lark Brossard felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliant pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally by Lawrence Wheelock, a filmmaker who is both Lark’s employer and her occasional lover. When Wheelock denies her what she longs for most — a child — Lark is forced to re-examine a life marked by unrealized ambitions and thwarted desires. As she takes charge of her destiny, Lark comes to rely on Robin in ways she never could have imagined. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this meditation on motherhood, sisterhood, desire, and self-knowledge, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complex path towards fulfillment as an artist and as a human being.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A spellbinding fever dream of a tale that will leave you forever changed, and will surely earn Ohlin a place among the greatest writers of our generation. I loved it.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year","OtherText_Accolades_1":"This novel sneaks up on you the way life does — full of chance and yearning. It’s a precise, subtle, sad, and graceful story about how we care for each other, and how we try to, and how we fail.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Ohlin’s story of sisters wraps its tendrils deep as any family. Dual Citizens leads a reader through landscapes of compassion and crisis in this deeply felt, iridescent novel of the spells and surprises a sibling creates.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark","OtherText_Accolades_3":"There’s so much life in this novel! Alix Ohlin is such an effortless, absorbing stylist, and with Dual Citizens she has given us a story about family and sacrifice that will give readers a great deal to consider. It’s a wonderful book that you will want to share.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Owen King, author of Double Feature","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eFor longtime admirers of Alix Ohlin’s fiction, the psychological complexity and keen observations in this novel will come as no surprise. In \u003cem\u003eDual Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e, Ohlin examines the conflicting desires of two sisters from Montreal with a riveting precision reminiscent of fellow Montreal native Mavis Gallant. However, unlike Gallant’s Montreal girls, Ohlin’s are not of a generation ‘trained to be good and patient’ but to follow their ambitions. A lifelong witness to one’s shifting longings, this wise and luminous novel shows, is a sibling.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Idra Novey, author of Those Who Knew","OtherText_Accolades_5":"Alix Ohlin is a thrilling and singular writer who intimately captures and celebrates a lifetime of desires, disappointments, and everyday triumphs in these two sisters’ lives. I couldn’t stop thinking about it: Dual Citizens will take up residency in your mind and heart for quite some time.","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Jennifer Gilmore, author of The Mothers","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eTouching . . . \u003cem\u003eDual Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e has a lot in common with Zadie Smith’s Swing Time and Claire Messud’s The Burning Girl.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Wall Street Journal","OtherText_Review_1":"Fascinating and unexpected.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_2":"With supreme confidence, Ohlin’s quicksilver prose and brilliant characterization at once seize and pull the reader into the wide-ranging and complex world of half-sisters Robin and Lark as they struggle with questions of identity, the slow burn of mental illness, and the need to leave your mark on the world. Her characters are as complex and real as your own dearest loved ones. Dual Citizens is a compulsively readable novel about family, sisterhood, and those uncontrollable forces that drive and haunt us.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Rogers Writers’Trust Fiction Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_3":"Evocative … Traces [its] characters over long arcs of time and place with equal amounts grace and wit.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Vogue","OtherText_Review_4":"If storytellers seduce not just with the tale but how they tell it, then Ohlin is exemplary.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_5":"Luminous … Ohlin’s touching, beautifully crafted story traces the unbreakable bond holding the sisters together, even when miles apart, through many changes.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_6":"Ohlin’s prose and insight are luminous … As with her prior novel, Inside, Ohlin is adroit at articulating her characters’ internal dialogues, and it becomes apparent to the reader as it does to both women that they are at their most harmonious when connected to each other.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_7":"Alix Ohlin’s gorgeously understated writing brings her characters to vivid, brilliant life, especially fiercely loyal and socially awkward Lark, who felt like someone we’d love to be friends with.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Apple Books Canada","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An intimate and compelling novel about motherhood, love and the search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_1":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"02","PrizeCode_1":"02","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeName_0":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_1":"Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_2":"A CBC Book of the Year","PrizeName_3":"A Globe and Mail Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","PrizeYear_2":"2019","PrizeYear_3":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-06-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An intimate and compelling novel about motherhood, love and the search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Dual Citizens
An intimate and compelling novel about motherhood, love and the search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.
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{"id":6582732750907,"title":"Far to Go","handle":"far-to-go","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Helen and Stan Vine Jewish Book Award and finalist for the Man Booker Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFar to Go\u003c\/em\u003e, one of our most accomplished young writers takes us inside the world of an affluent Jewish family in Prague during the lead-up to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are secular Jews whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of Hitler. They are unable to leave the country in time to avoid deportation, but they do manage to get their six-year-old son Pepik a place on a Kindertransport. Meanwhile, a fascinating and compelling present-day strand in the story slowly reveals the unexpected fates of each of the Bauers. 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This epic novel takes you inside an affluent Jewish family in the lead-up to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Whichever style he adopts or genre he inhabits, deWitt remains a true original.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_4":"DeWitt’s particular comic genius is to evoke the darkness behind the dazzle. The novel is a brittle, unsettling delight: a fairground ride swooping above vertiginous drops, wringing out laughter and screams as it rattles towards its conclusion. Whichever style he adopts or genre he inhabits, deWitt remains a true original.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_5":"A highly enjoyable read . . . DeWitt’s style is nothing if not idiosyncratic, and his elevated language — played for particular comic effect when it comes to dialogue — is perfectly suited to affectionately chiding upper-class mores. And the tenderness between Frances, her son, and her old friend Joan is of the real stuff.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Esquire","OtherText_Review_6":"A ‘tragedy of manners’ about people out of sync in the world, this novel is disconcertingly funny. It strikes postures where a more conventional writer would have been sincere and humourless. Its subjects are effrontery, wealth, death, and bad manners. Many of the greatest novels are about nothing so very important, and they last because they are done beautifully. French Exit shows Patrick deWitt’s literary mastery and perfect ear. It’s an immaculate performance on ice, executed with sharp shining blades, lutzing and pirouetting above unknowable black depths.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_7":"Disarmingly funny … Billed as a ‘tragedy of manners,’ French Exit is deWitt’s take on a form of theatre popularized over the centuries (but dating back to the ancient Greeks) by such luminaries as Molière, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, and Noel Coward — with deWitt’s snappy yet droll version most closely resembling the latter two. A traditional comedy of manners employs an abundance of wit and insouciance to skewer the deplorable aspects of high society — and the prevalence of appearance over substance in particular. DeWitt’s absolute mastery over this approach is a thing of beauty: every nuance, scene, character, and snippet of dialogue is pitch perfect … French Exit includes multiple layers of meaning and social commentary, wrapped up in a whip-smart package that cracks with wit and wordplay … DeWitt proves that while The Sisters Brothers may have made his name as an author, it was far from a singular success.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_8":"[DeWitt] is a masterful storyteller who propels narrative with witty, weird vignettes and digressions.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_9":"Darkly comic, perfectly brilliant … Let deWitt take you along on this dizzying, wild ride; you’ll love every second of it, and then hop back to the beginning for another go. It’s worth the trip.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Nylon Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial ruin.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_10":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_11":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_5":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_6":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_7":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_8":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_9":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_10":"03","PrizeCode_11":"03","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"04","PrizeCode_5":"03","PrizeCode_6":"03","PrizeCode_7":"03","PrizeCode_8":"03","PrizeCode_9":"03","PrizeName_0":"International Bestseller","PrizeName_1":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_10":"A 49th Shelf Book of the Year","PrizeName_11":"An Amazon.com Best Book of the Month","PrizeName_2":"International Dublin Literary Award","PrizeName_3":"Forest of Reading Evergreen Award","PrizeName_4":"Oregon Book Awards: Ken Kesey Award for Fiction","PrizeName_5":"A Globe and Mail Book of the Year","PrizeName_6":"A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year","PrizeName_7":"A Chatelaine Book of the Year","PrizeName_8":"A Now Magazine Book of the Year","PrizeName_9":"A Quill \u0026amp; Quire Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","PrizeYear_10":"2018","PrizeYear_11":"2018","PrizeYear_2":"2018","PrizeYear_3":"2018","PrizeYear_4":"2018","PrizeYear_5":"2018","PrizeYear_6":"2018","PrizeYear_7":"2018","PrizeYear_8":"2018","PrizeYear_9":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-08-28","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial ruin.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
French Exit
A brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial ruin.
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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. As a collection, these stunning stories create a multi-faceted jewel of a book.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Src":"Binnie Kirshenbaum","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Zalika Reid-Benta’s first book — by turns effortless, vivid, funny, sad, and genuinely like being there — is as shiny as they come. Her spot-on capture of youthful aspiration, folly, and how family members tend to understand one another only in fragments make these stories a real pleasure — full of recognition, humour, and keenly observed lives in the here and now. Frying Plantain, a window into the world of growing upward and onward inside and outside family ties, is an absolute gem.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Janice Galloway","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN EXCITING EMERGING AUTHOR WITH STRONG CONNECTIONS IN THE U.S. AND CANADIAN LITERARY COMMUNITIES:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is Zalika Reid-Benta’s first published book, but she has already made a name for herself as a writer. The author has an M.F.A. from Columbia University, where she was mentored by Paul Beatty, author of the Booker Prize–winning novel \u003cem\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\\\/em\u003e; Victor LaValle, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Changeling\u003c\\\/em\u003e; Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Scenic Route\u003c\\\/em\u003e; and Gary Shteyngart, author of \u003cem\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story\u003c\\\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLake Success\u003c\\\/em\u003e. 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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. She a soft chile.” \u003c\\\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Frying Plantain . . . brims with wit and compassion.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"Reid-Benta is a natural storyteller . . . This splendid collection marks her as a writer to watch.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_2":"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.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"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.
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{"id":6816229064763,"title":"Hellgoing","handle":"hellgoing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe's Top 10 Books of 2013.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Lynn Coady gives us nine unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the years progress. 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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.","OtherText_Review_10":"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.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Jared Bland","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_11":"A damned good read.","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Lori Hahnel","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Alberta Views","OtherText_Review_12":"\u003cp\u003eCoady’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.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Room Magazine","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Alex Good","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"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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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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Here resides the great intelligence of Yara El-Ghadban’s book, which, taking up and going beyond Spinoza’s famous formula, reaffirms that literature can at once laugh, cry, hate, and understand.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Lettres québécoises","OtherText_Review_1":"Yara El-Ghadban paints a picture of a country devastated by an ethical shortcoming that affects everyone, Palestinians and Israelis. Through this chorus of female voices and through the character of a nurse who reads to the patient, she calls for wisdom.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"TelQuel","OtherText_Review_2":"[Yara El-Ghadban’s] prose forces us to look anew. Readers accustomed to the repetitive stories of textbooks and the media will be transported into the eye of the hurricane and enveloped in the close proximity and conflagration of war … and carried away by a pen that combines history and feeling with extraordinary panache. Don’t wait. Read this book now.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Le Journal des Alternatives","OtherText_Review_3":"One can only bow before the sensibility and striving for objectivity of someone who writes with extraordinary fluidity and who the stage would do well to discover.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeName_0":"Blue Metropolis Literary Diversity Award","PrizeName_1":"Prix Français Hors-Concours","PrizeName_2":"Prix Hors-Concours des Lycéens","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2020-11-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
I Am Ariel Sharon
I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.
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In Exile
Award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari’s deeply personal investigation of a family secret with lingering consequences.
