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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. 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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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Born and raised in Montreal, she lives in Vancouver, where she chairs the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Ohlin, Alix (CA)","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","EAN":"9781487004866","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487004866\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","guide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487004866\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=guide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"9","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"identity; mental illness; sisters; intimate storytelling; strong female characters; dance; film editing; family dynamics; boarding school; sisterhood; narcissism; coming of age; piano prodigy; Julliard; Canlit; literary fiction; Finalist; Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize; Finalist; Scotiabank Giller Prize; Finalist; Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; A Globe and Mail Book of the Year; A CBC Book of the Year; Zadie Smith; Claire Messud; Montreal","NumberOfPages":"256","OtherText_Accolades_0":"I hesitate to call Dual Citizens Alix Ohlin’s best book — because her previous ones are among my favourite recent works of fiction — but it’s perhaps her most entrancing. 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":6813791354939,"title":"French Exit","handle":"french-exit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and an international bestseller, Patrick deWitt’s brilliant and darkly comic novel is now a major motion picture starring Michelle Pfeiffer.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrances Price — tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature — is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Price’s aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePutting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self-destruction and economic ruin — to riotous effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrimming with pathos and wit, \u003cem\u003eFrench Exit\u003c\/em\u003e is a one-of-a-kind “tragedy of manners,” a riotous send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother and son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute. 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Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Price’s aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePutting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self-destruction and economic ruin — to riotous effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrimming with pathos and wit, \u003cem\u003eFrench Exit\u003c\/em\u003e is a one-of-a-kind “tragedy of manners,” a riotous send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother and son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute. 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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487003920","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770891050","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770894129","BASICMainSubject":"FIC045000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Family Life \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePATRICK DEWITT\u003c\/strong\u003e was born on Vancouver Island in 1975. He is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: \u003cem\u003eUndermajordomo Minor\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAblutions\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Sisters Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Stephen Leacock Medal, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. 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These are people you may not want to invite to dinner, but they sure make for fun reading.","OtherText_Review_10":"Sharply observed moments give deWitt’s well-written novel more depth than the usual comedy of manners — a depth reinforced by the exit that closes the tale, sharp object and all. Reminiscent at points of The Ginger Man but in the end a bright, original yarn with a surprising twist.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrench Exit\u003c\/em\u003e satisfies with its delightful economy. Barely a word is out of place, and the dialogue is particularly arch and ironic … One hears echoes in \u003cem\u003eFrench Exit\u003c\/em\u003e of playwrights Noël Coward and Oscar Wilde, not to mention novelists Evelyn Waugh and Edith Wharton.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"NPR","OtherText_Review_2":"A cross between a Feydeau farce (fitting, given that the location of most of the novel is Paris) and a Buñuel film, as one after another in an eccentric cast of characters is introduced . . . DeWitt is in possession of a fresh, lively voice that surprises at every turn.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Kate Atkinson","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Vanity Fair","OtherText_Review_3":"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_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. 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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. It reminds us that individuals remain bound to their cultural experience — their quirks and fixations stubbornly wrapped up as metaphorical leftovers.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_4":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_5":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_6":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeCode_3":"02","PrizeCode_4":"02","PrizeCode_5":"05","PrizeCode_6":"03","PrizeName_0":"Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_2":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_3":"Trillium Book Award","PrizeName_4":"Forest of Reading Evergreen Award","PrizeName_5":"Toronto Book Awards","PrizeName_6":"A CBC Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2020","PrizeYear_2":"2019","PrizeYear_3":"2019","PrizeYear_4":"2019","PrizeYear_6":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-06-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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. Hellgoing provides another reminder that her use of wit is consummate, and her regard for the reader is gracious.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"David Chau","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_3":"Brilliant collection of short stories.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Dana Medoro","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"Hellgoing is hell going…Coady is a muscular writer, who drives us right smack into the situation her characters are experiencing … Coady’s stories are not about commonalities as such. They are unique.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Jennifer Hunter","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_5":"Hellgoing is a superb collection, end to end, and easily one of the best books I’ve read so far in 2013.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Michael Hingston","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_6":"Toting their trauma, Coady’s characters repel these attacks from fathers, doctors,\r\nlovers and the legion of others that ‘know best’ by learning “to hurt and insult him as\r\neffortlessly as he did me.” This rebellion lets Coady’s wicked wit shine, and while compassion\r\nfrom the reader is complicated by this attitude, Coady always delivers a knockout punch at\r\nthe end of each story,“ like picking at your cuticles and being surprised when they start to\r\nache and bleed.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Mike Landry","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Telegraph-Journal's Salon Magazine","OtherText_Review_7":"One of the hallmarks of Lynn Coady's work is her shrewd examination of the underexplored byways of human psychology.\r\n\r\nCoady is a writer who increasingly commands attention and respect","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Jeet Heer","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"It is the author's demonstrable strength as an ironist that prevents these stories- and these characters from appearing completely hopeless.\r\n\r\n[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.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Steven W Beattie","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_9":"Powerful.","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":"trade paperback","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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{"id":6817704804411,"title":"Inside","handle":"inside","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, an Amazon.ca Best Book, and an iTunes Store Best Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Grace, a highly competent and devoted therapist in Montreal, stumbles across a man in the snowy woods who has failed to hang himself, her instinct to help immediately kicks in. Before long, however, she realizes that her feelings for this charismatic, extremely guarded stranger are far from straightforward.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, her troubled teenage patient, Annie, runs away and soon will reinvent herself in New York as an aspiring and ruthless actress, as unencumbered as humanly possible by any personal attachments. And Mitch, Grace's ex-husband, a therapist as well, leaves the woman he's desperately in love with to attend to a struggling native community in the bleak Arctic. We follow these four compelling, complex characters from Montreal and New York to Hollywood and Rwanda, each of them with a consciousness that is utterly distinct and urgently convincing. 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Before long, however, she realizes that her feelings for this charismatic, extremely guarded stranger are far from straightforward.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, her troubled teenage patient, Annie, runs away and soon will reinvent herself in New York as an aspiring and ruthless actress, as unencumbered as humanly possible by any personal attachments. And Mitch, Grace's ex-husband, a therapist as well, leaves the woman he's desperately in love with to attend to a struggling native community in the bleak Arctic. We follow these four compelling, complex characters from Montreal and New York to Hollywood and Rwanda, each of them with a consciousness that is utterly distinct and urgently convincing. With a razor-sharp emotional intelligence, \u003cem\u003eInside\u003c\/em\u003e poignantly explores the manifold dangers and imperatives of making ourselves available to, and indeed responsible for, those dearest to us.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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It’s something most readers will be more than happy to do.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Ian McGillis","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_11":"... [an] extremely readable blend of poignancy and sardonic humour ...","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Dory Cerny","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_12":"Alix Ohlin’s writing is brilliant. Readers will enjoy ‘Inside’ and will finish anticipating Ohlin’s future works; wanting to see how far she can go.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Digital Journal","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Stephan Lee","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Entertainment Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"... wondrously engrossing ...","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Boston Globe","OtherText_Review_3":"... vividly pictorial ... Ohlin has as unsettling an old soul as Leonard Cohen’s.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"T. F. Rigelhof","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"... [Alix] Ohlin makes us care ...","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Carol Ross Williamson","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Guelph Mercury","OtherText_Review_5":"... [a] twisty, clever and captivating read ... this cunning writer yanks you inside her world.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Mary Pols","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"San Francisco Chronicle","OtherText_Review_6":"Can any of us really save another person? Or is each of us solely responsible for his or her own life? 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A powerful drama about entwined lives and a woman with an unsettling ability to broach the innermost dynamics of the people around her.
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This touching, witty novel introduces us to a number of voyages of discovery.
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{"id":6817704935483,"title":"Mai at the Predators' Ball","handle":"mai-at-the-predators-ball","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation. Shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLiterary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the latest installment in her ongoing portrait of life in contemporary North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this swirling fresco, we meet unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous works, some new. This time, Blais lets us into the consciousness of fifteen-year-old Mai, an unusually perceptive young woman whose uncensored observations on femininity and youth, freedom and constraint belie her age. 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They open their arms to those who are excluded -- both men and women, triumphant and threatened, both free and bound.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith this astonishing new novel, Blais gives us a remarkable chronicle of our modern age teeming with characters who seem to represent the whole of humanity. She invites us to share the drama of perfect joy, the tragedy of happiness, and she gives us her best work yet.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Mai at the Predators' Ball
The fifth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. In this vibrant novel, we enter the lives of unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous works and some new.
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{"id":6814270619707,"title":"Minds of Winter","handle":"minds-of-winter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, \u003ci\u003eMinds of Winter\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing novel about the chance meeting of two present-day travellers who expose one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada, about 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Both are in search of answers about a family member: Nelson for his estranged older brother, and Fay for her vanished grandfather. Driving Fay into town from the airport on a freezing January night, Nelson reveals a folder left behind by his brother. An image catches Fay’s eye: a clock she has seen before. Soon Fay and Nelson realize that their relatives have an extraordinary and historic connection — a secret share in one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of polar expedition. This is the riddle of the “Arnold 294” chronometer, which reappeared in Britain more than a hundred years after it was lost in the Arctic with the ships and men of Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition. 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Soon Fay and Nelson realize that their relatives have an extraordinary and historic connection — a secret share in one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of polar expedition. This is the riddle of the “Arnold 294” chronometer, which reappeared in Britain more than a hundred years after it was lost in the Arctic with the ships and men of Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition. 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Past and present merge to convey the polar landscape’s immense mysteries, and the lives of those voyagers compelled to seek answers in its icy expanses. Ed O’Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Ron Rash, author of Serena and Above the Waterfall","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Few novelists have the temerity to offer up mystery, suspense, adventure, and a famous historical puzzle in a single novel. 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In Minds of Winter, Ed O’Loughlin’s brilliant story of polar exploration, time itself is an Arctic: a mysterious dimension of sun craze and apparitions, chance encounters and destiny. The mechanism of this novel is fascinating to observe, its implications are deeply human. In O’Loughlin’s work, our desire for knowledge, our obsession with the past, our grappling with life itself … all of it is generously, wittily on display.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_4":"Hugely ambitious…[O’Loughlin] displays a prodigious imagination.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"Readers who delight in history and mystery mixed together will appreciate O’Loughlin’s shifting drifts of reality and imagination.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_6":"[A] masterly, richly researched, vastly ranging tale.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_7":"Minds of Winter proves to be an exhilarating romp through the age of polar exploration … like the search for Franklin himself, Minds of Winter is a story of death and glory, loss and triumph and, ultimately, the mighty power of the imagination in the face of unrelenting struggle.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_8":"In both concept and execution the novel is a serious piece of work at once vastly entertaining and ambitious on a scale that leaves much of contemporary Irish fiction looking woefully insubstantial … there will be few better historical novels published this year.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_9":"[A] marvel of a novel.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Irish Independent","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The unexpected meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction","PrizeYear_0":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-02-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The unexpected meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
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The unexpected meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.
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Our Voice of Fire
A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi Morin set to transform the narrative around Indigenous Peoples.
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Pigeon
Karen Solie's poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, and creeping catastrophe.
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To the east, long grass and low trees all the way to the horizon, and to the west, the land bled into the cloud-like silhouette of the mountains. Days ago he had lost sight of the ranges he called home, and now he paced alongside peaks he remembered dimly from long ago, when he was a younger man, a line of only half-familiar shapes, the faces of acquaintances. He’d stolen everything he could from a ranger’s station outside Banff, including a knapsack, a hatchet, matches, and a blanketcoat with ROCKY MTNS PARK stencilled across the shoulder blades and STN 153 on the chest. He’d found nothing useful for hunting. No gun, not even a knife.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe jerky he’d been eating began to fume right through the canvas of his knapsack and sicken him as he walked. Holding the bag to his belly he clawed through it, dropping behind him the last strips of meat. Then the reeking square of oilcloth in which they had been wrapped fluttered down to settle on a tuft of grass like a tiny umbrella. He took out the hatchet and considered dropping it as well, to get rid of the weight, but couldn’t open his hand. The hatchet had great utility, so he slid it back into his bag. He was god-almighty thirsty and dreamed as he walked, dreamed of a river, of drinking gallons of water from that cold river.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eOne afternoon he came upon a gully packed with young trees which turned out to be mostly dry, but he dug down and sipped at a muddy pool. Then he rolled onto his side under the cover of shrubs and slept hard. When he rose a few hours later it was getting on to dark and he was stiff and trembling.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThat night he found himself on the road he had been looking for. He followed it until he was standing, as planned, outside the little guard hut at the Sweetgrass border crossing between Alberta and Montana. He stood by the lightless window and swayed on numb legs. A bright coin of a moon overhead and no wind at all. The world was utterly still, so quiet he could hear his own ears humming. William Moreland stood like an idiot before the hut and waited for the guard. He stared about with hollow eyes and slowly came to the conclusion that he should probably do something.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eBeyond the hut was a small gabled house and an unoccupied corral. There was a motorcar up on blocks by the kitchen door, but no lights to be seen anywhere. Moreland tried to call out with his dry throat but all that came out was a thin hiss; his first attempt to speak in more than a week. 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Everything packs a significant punch and draws the reader into the novel’s world with a startling immediacy.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_5":"Striking … Once again, Adamson’s powers as a poet weave her characters deeply into the natural world.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_6":"Rich and exciting … delightful, sinewy language that takes time with the details of the moment, of humour and whimsy … Adamson’s writing soars.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Hamilton Review of Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003ePart literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner \u003cem\u003eRidgerunner \u003c\/em\u003eis now available as a paperback.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_1":"Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeYear_0":"2020","PrizeYear_1":"2020","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2020-05-12","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003ePart literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner \u003cem\u003eRidgerunner \u003c\/em\u003eis now available as a paperback.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Ridgerunner
Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner Ridgerunner is now available as a paperback.
