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The Outside Circle
A graphic novel about two brothers surrounded by poverty and gang violence trying to overcome centuries of historic trauma.
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Tokyo Digs a Garden
Tokyo lives in a small house between giant buildings with his family and his cat, Kevin. Will they ever experience the natural world again?
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The Best Kind of People
From award-winning author Zoe Whittall comes The Best Kind of People, a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family.
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Payback
In her 2008 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Atwood delivers a wide ranging, entertaining, and imaginative look at the topic of debt.
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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. Meanwhile, George builds his power in the underworld of the city and embraces a life of military service, crime for profit, killing, and drugs.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTold in the voice of Bassam, \u003cem\u003eDe Niro's Game\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful, explosive portrait of a contemporary young man shaped by a lifelong experience of war. Rawi Hage's brilliant style mimics a world gone mad: so smooth and apparently sane that its razor-sharp edges surprise and cut deeply. A powerful meditation on life and death in a war zone, and what comes after.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487005573","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487005573\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Imprint":"Anansi Audio","MetaKeywords":"Action \u0026amp; Adventure; Literary; award winner","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A-List edition of Rawi Hage's classic novel De Niro's Game, with a new introduction by Colm Toibin.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_4":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_5":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"01","PrizeCode_4":"04","PrizeCode_5":"04","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Awards: Fiction","PrizeName_1":"IMPAC Dublin Literary Award","PrizeName_2":"QWF McAuslan First Book Prize","PrizeName_3":"QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction","PrizeName_4":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_5":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeYear_0":"2006","PrizeYear_1":"2008","PrizeYear_2":"2006","PrizeYear_3":"2006","PrizeYear_4":"2007","PrizeYear_5":"2006","ProductFormDescription":"Digital Audio, MP3","PublicationDate":"2006-01-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"A List","ShortDescription":"A-List edition of Rawi Hage's classic novel De Niro's Game, with a new introduction by Colm Toibin."}
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":6582719250491,"title":"The Antagonist","handle":"the-antagonist","description":"\u003cp\u003eAgainst his will and his nature, the hulking Gordon Rankin (\"Rank\") is cast as an enforcer, a goon -- by his classmates, his hockey coaches, and especially his own \"tiny, angry\" father, Gordon Senior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRank gamely lives up to his role -- until tragedy strikes, using Rank as its blunt instrument. Escaping the only way he can, Rank disappears. But almost twenty years later he discovers that an old, trusted friend -- the only person to whom he has ever confessed his sins -- has published a novel mirroring Rank's life. The betrayal cuts to the deepest heart of him, and Rank will finally have to confront the tragic true story from which he's spent his whole life running away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the deep compassion, deft touch, and irreverent humour that have made her one of Canada's best-loved novelists, Lynn Coady delves deeply into the ways we sanction and stoke male violence, giving us a large-hearted, often hilarious portrait of a man tearing himself apart in order to put himself back together.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:48-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:05:48-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Award Winning","By (author) Coady Lynn","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2011-08-03"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1895,"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":39403402952763,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890428","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Antagonist - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890428","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412867104827,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891043","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Antagonist - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":327,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770891043","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39412867203131,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895607","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Antagonist - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895607","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_22feabac-8ca8-4186-a3a8-f97ae332d061.jpg?v=1723952285"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_22feabac-8ca8-4186-a3a8-f97ae332d061.jpg?v=1723952285","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743116832827,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.633,"height":2344,"width":1483,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_22feabac-8ca8-4186-a3a8-f97ae332d061.jpg?v=1723952285"},"aspect_ratio":0.633,"height":2344,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_22feabac-8ca8-4186-a3a8-f97ae332d061.jpg?v=1723952285","width":1483}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eAgainst his will and his nature, the hulking Gordon Rankin (\"Rank\") is cast as an enforcer, a goon -- by his classmates, his hockey coaches, and especially his own \"tiny, angry\" father, Gordon Senior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRank gamely lives up to his role -- until tragedy strikes, using Rank as its blunt instrument. Escaping the only way he can, Rank disappears. But almost twenty years later he discovers that an old, trusted friend -- the only person to whom he has ever confessed his sins -- has published a novel mirroring Rank's life. The betrayal cuts to the deepest heart of him, and Rank will finally have to confront the tragic true story from which he's spent his whole life running away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the deep compassion, deft touch, and irreverent humour that have made her one of Canada's best-loved novelists, Lynn Coady delves deeply into the ways we sanction and stoke male violence, giving us a large-hearted, often hilarious portrait of a man tearing himself apart in order to put himself back together.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Coady's writing is witty and sensitive... this is a fantastic book that shouldn't be missed.","OtherText_Quot_16":"Sentence for sentence, Lynn Coady is one of the most dynamic prose stylists in Canadian letters.","OtherText_Quot_17":"Only a writer as wonderfully gifted as Lynn Coady could elicit such extraordinary sympathy for a character as full of self-destructive rage as Rank, her main character. You won't soon forget either him or this haunting novel.","OtherText_Review_0":"[Lynn Coady] has a hearty wit and a piercing understanding of human nature . . . [she] has made herself one of our essential writers.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Jeet Heer","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"The Antagonist could have not have come at a better time. In our fast, media-saturated world, this novel gives the reader the refreshing and increasingly rare opportunity to take a closer, more compassionate look at someone wrongly judged by his outer shell.","OtherText_Review_10":"Unhinged at times, cathartic, lyrical and brave ... the reader must simply sit back and enjoy.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Nathaniel G. Moore","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Rabble","OtherText_Review_11":"... 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You won't soon forget either him or this haunting novel.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Richard Russo","OtherText_Review_15":"...sharp and very funny...the pathos and humor brought to a challenging life story will appeal to many readers.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_16":"A genuinely fascinating character [whose] emails evolve from clumsy rages to thoughtful, measured ruminations on crucial events in his life...But it is Coady’s ability to realistically portray his teens and university years and empathetically conduct his search for self that makes The Antagonist more than just entertainment.","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_17":"Smartly tuned and as unsettling as it intends to be...Coady expertly renders a man who's compelled to address his past but not entirely ready to look in the mirror [and her novel] is a caution to tread carefully.","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_18":"... a stunning new novel. Coady's writing is witty and sensitive... this is a fantastic book that shouldn't be missed.","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Nicholas Mancusi","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Daily Beast\/Newsweek","OtherText_Review_19":"...[a] clever and sympathetic exploration of male friendship.","OtherText_Review_19_Auth":"Ron Charles","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Heather Leighton","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Rover Arts","OtherText_Review_2":". . . thoroughly engrossing. . . a breathless and frequently hilarious narrative . . . one of the freshest voices in years.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Zoe Whittall","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"FASHION Magazine","OtherText_Review_3":". . . a richly comic creation . . . a revealing effort in cross-gender empathy.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Joel Yanofsky","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_4":"A deft blend of farce, tragedy and wry social comment, The Antagonist is no mean feat.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Barbara Carey","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_5":". . . far more complex than the hilarious one-liners that make her work so irresistible to read.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Margaret Gunning","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_6":"In this coming-of-age tale, male friendships and relationships are explored in all their goofiness and complexity . . . 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The Antagonist
From bestselling novelist Lynn Coady comes an unforgettable, unflinching story of a life gone wrong.
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{"id":6582708437051,"title":"Stella!","handle":"stella","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarie-Louise Gay published \u003cem\u003eStella, Star of the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e more than ten years ago. It was an immediate hit, and since then she has written and illustrated four more books featuring the engaging, red-headed heroine, Stella, and her little brother, Sam — \u003cem\u003eStella, Queen of the Snow\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eStella, Fairy of the Forest\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eStella, Princess of the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e and, most recently, \u003cem\u003eWhen Stella Was Very, Very Small\u003c\/em\u003e. With gentle humor, freshness, a sense of whimsy and exquisite watercolors, Marie-Louise Gay gives us stories about two young siblings discovering their world. Here at last are all five books bound into one delightful volume. The treasury contains new art for the cover and opening page as well as new decorative line art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen Stella Was Very, Very Small\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When Stella was very, very small, she thought she was a turtle. She also thought that trees could talk and that words were like ants running off the pages of her books.\" This is the story of a lovely tiny Stella, whose world is full of small adventures and slivers of magic. And she delights in sharing it all with Sam when he comes along. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStella, Star of the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStella and Sam are spending the day at the sea. Stella has been to the sea before and knows all its secrets, but Sam has many questions…and Stella has an answer for them all. 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This vital book makes a clear and compelling argument about why creatives need to make a non-negotiable commitment to ethics, and it’s filled with numerous accessible strategies for how to put those ethics into action.","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Kat Vellos, designer, facilitator, and author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships","OtherText_Accolades_7":"\u003cp\u003eA vast toolbox of fantastic ideas that I will use in my work and share with others. 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Being aware of the impact of the systems within which we operate can empower us with an enriched understanding of the work that we do and, hopefully, help us advocate for change. There is a fine line between being aware of issues and being crushed by the weight of the systemic problems we face. Aim for the former to stay in a headspace of action and empowerment, and remember, we can’t single-handedly save the world in one profound act. What we \u003cem\u003ecan\u003c\/em\u003e do is implement some of the actions outlined in this book, and develop some of our own, to effect incremental change toward a more equitable world.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelp your Audience Live (Mentally) Healthily\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eOver the years there have been all sorts of sketchy ways the creative industries have been complicit in manufacturing needs. The practice of manipulating audience behaviour has become increasingly stealthy through the use of things like dark patterns (manipulative interface designs that trick users into doing things they may not have wanted to do), the repetitive hyper-targeting and re-targeting of ads and past-viewed products, and addictive experiences in digital product design. Aiming to identify and avoid these modes of practice is a key step toward an ethical practice.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eI would argue that we can’t be conscious creatives if we’re exploiting self-esteem to sell a product, infusing fat-phobia into our marketing messages, advertising nutritionally void foods to kids, producing experiences that capitalize on a dopamine\/reward response, selling high fashion using violent, misogynistic imagery, or promoting mindless consumption. These ethical pitfalls aren’t always simple to avoid, however mindful awareness, positive intentions, and advocating for the promotion of healthy behaviours in our audiences are steps in the right direction.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMake it Analogue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWhen creating with objectives toward developing strong and connected communities, consider that reliance on or defaulting to a technology-based solution might not serve our cause well. Social Innovation leader Ezio Manzini believes that a community’s reliance on digital connectivity can actually weaken a once-solid social fabric. This replacement of authentic, real-world connections with connections based in superficial, digital realms can, arguably, compromise a community’s resilience. If technology is necessary in your creative work, ensure it plays a supporting role and never replaces face-to-face human connection.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcknowledge The Privilege of Ethical Practice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eLet’s promise to stop judging the people around on us whose choices we don’t perceive to be ethical. Having the ability to make socially and environmentally conscious decisions can be steeped in a privilege not universally shared. For example: ethically made materials, resources, food, and fashion often come at a higher price point and are therefore inaccessible to many people. To have the choice to work for an ethical employer often demands earning a college education, which requires financial means and intellectual aptitude. Advocating for change can require long hours, emotional labour, mental fortitude, and a requirement for presence in collective action not always available to those whose safety, mental health, or physical health may be compromised. To be supportive allies in the pursuit of a better world, we must start with an understanding of the complex systems that can impact our abilities to act. When we withdraw judgment from other people’s choices, we can remember to do the same for ourselves. Usually we are doing the best we can with the awareness and the resources we have at the time.\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":"Kelly Small’s experience as a former creative director provides valuable insight … Small’s thorough breakdown of ethical concerns in the workplace can benefit anyone wanting to grow as an ally in a nation rife with issues of disparity.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Cascade","OtherText_Review_1":"What Kelly Small brings to the table is a healthy dose of both inspiration and practicality … Kelly Small’s personal story is an inspiration in itself, shared throughout the book with candour and courage. If you’re a creative searching for cleaner, healthier, and socially just ways to practice, you’ll not find a better place to start looking. And the timing couldn’t be better.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Applied Arts","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An actionable guide to mindfulness and practical ethics for any creative professional who wants to make a living without selling their soul.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2020-08-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An actionable guide to mindfulness and practical ethics for any creative professional who wants to make a living without selling their soul.","Subtitle":"Practical Ethics for Purposeful Work","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
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An actionable guide to mindfulness and practical ethics for any creative professional who wants to make a living without selling their soul.
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And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son’s future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve-year-old Jack Boulton has been left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun who keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old house. Though he knows his father is coming for him, the boy longs to return to his family’s cabin, deep in the woods. 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It hearkens back to when novels were generous and ambitious, big-shouldered and big-hearted. Gil Adamson writes worlds utterly unto their own.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Robert Olmstead, award-winning author of Coal Black Horse and Savage Country","OtherText_Accolades_2":"In Gil Adamson’s Ridgerunner we meet thirteen-year-old Jack Boulton, whose quest — perhaps foolish, certainly dangerous — is to be reunited with his only living family member, his father. A beautiful and moving novel about the durability of family ties, Ridgerunner is a brilliant literary achievement, and in Jack Boulton, Adamson has created one of the most vividly rendered children you will ever encounter in fiction. I loved every page of it.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Michael Redhill, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author of Bellevue Square","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Gil Adamson understands the pain and the necessary beauty of our connection with other people better than anyone. Ferocious, entirely authentic, funny, and tragic, Ridgerunner is a wild adventure spun in exalted prose: the book I’ve been wanting to read for years.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Marina Endicott, award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Difference","OtherText_Accolades_4":"In Ridgerunner, Gil Adamson manages a balancing act of beauty and violence, humour and heartbreak. She can write about anything: a nun’s madness, a twelve-year-old boy’s cooking talents, the way a horse moves through a cold forest. How it feels to be held on your mother’s lap, how it feels to jump off a moving train, how it feels to keep the people you’ve lost alive in your mind. The novel is vivid, beautiful, and fully alive.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Jamie Harrison, award-winning author of The Widow Nash and The Center of Everything","OtherText_Accolades_5":"[The characters] are so real, the time and place so convincing, and most importantly, the story captivating to the core.","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Jon Mayes","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eUpon release in hardcover \u003cem\u003eRidgerunner \u003c\/em\u003equickly became a Canadian bestseller.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eRidgerunner\u003c\/em\u003e is part literary Western and part historical mystery.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is the follow up to Adamson’s previous award winning and critically acclaimed novel \u003cem\u003eThe Outlander\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Moreland kept moving south. If the moon was bright he walked all night, wading through dry prairie grass. He was alone and carried his meagre belongings on his back. It was November and snow clung to the hollows and shadows, but that snow was old, dry, delicate as meringue. He had come down the leeward side of the Rockies and had descended into the rolling grassland that runs from Alberta all the way into Montana. Having left the only real home he had ever known, he was looking for the border.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eCold as the days were, the sun was intense. Every noon he boiled in his coat and every night he lay shivering on the frigid ground and whined like a dog. After four days and nights, his feet were very bad. He suspected they were bloody by now but he couldn’t bring himself to pull off the boots and look.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThis was open country. 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. The applicant to cross over simply waited there, as he should, trying to either speak to authority, or call for service, but could make no sound at all, while the guard slumbered somewhere out of sight.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eA barn owl melted out of the dark and alighted on a gable of the house. They gazed unblinking at each other until the owl tilted off and moved without sound to the west. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe absurdity of the situation was not lost on Moreland: this was after all the border between two countries. But all around him was a sea of grass and rolling land and wind and animals and dust and seeds that flowed this way and that across the imagined line. A decade and a half earlier he would not have stopped, nor intended to stop, nor have approached the crossing station at all. He would not have given it the slightest thought, but gone his own, quiet, solitary way, neither wild nor domesticated, just alone. But now he had been so long among people he’d forgotten that part of himself. So it came to him very slowly that the natural world, having long ago defined its own precincts and notions of order, was simply waiting for him to become unstuck. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHe cupped his face and pressed it to the thin glass. In the darkness of the hut he saw a wooden counter and a high stool. He wandered round to the rear and pulled open the door. Inside he found a shelf under the counter on which stood a few romance books, a clean plate and a fork, long-dead bees and bits of bee, and below that, bolted to the floor, a small metal box. On top lay a heavy padlock, twisted open, and the key was stuck in it. He gathered the padlock into his fist, lifted the lid of the box, and let it all sag to the floor. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eMoreland stood for a long time looking down at the revolver. An army model, Colt single action. There were a few spare rounds in the box, some of which didn’t match the gun but seemed to have been put there for tidy housekeeping. He considered taking the pistol, but in the end he shut the lid of the box, put the padlock back on top, shut the door to the hut, and left everything as it had been. He looked across the road at the blank windows of the little house and went back out into the night, moving south, always south, wading through a vast nothingness of grass. An ocean of grass.\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":"Adamson’s Ridgerunner is the kind of book that forges the possible from the impossible, despite age and borders. It’s a hearty, brave novel that challenges us to live life on our own terms.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Chicago Review of Books","OtherText_Review_1":"Part literary Western, part historical mystery, it’s a vivid story that grabs you by the eyeballs on page one.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"Engrossing … Adamson immerses readers in life as it was a century ago with attention to details about horses, wolves, bears, the weather, and all of nature, including the light and dark of human nature. Her sly plotting never quits, luring the reader into shocking surprises.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_3":"I have just finished reading Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson, a novel that left me deeply satisfied and savouring the experience of reading a really good book … A great story and a wonderfully written novel.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Metro North Bay-Nippissing","OtherText_Review_4":"Adamson writes with a sly wit and a deep insight into her characters and the natural world but, more significantly, into how the characters and the natural world interact, shaping and being shaped by one another . . . 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Ridgerunner
Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner Ridgerunner is now available as a paperback.
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A Short History of Progress
15th Anniversary edition of the #1 national bestseller featuring a new introduction from the author warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.
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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. In Canada, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet George Elliott Clarke named her a “Writer to Watch.” At the Banff Writing Studio, she worked with Greg Hollingshead and Janice Galloway, and she became close to Caroline Adderson.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTRONG INTEREST IN STORIES ABOUT DIASPORA COMMUNITIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRecent hits such as David Chariandy’s \u003cem\u003eBrother\u003c\/em\u003e, Mohsin Hamid’s \u003cem\u003eExit West\u003c\/em\u003e, and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/em\u003e have shown that there is a strong interest in stories set among diaspora communities.\u003cem\u003e Frying Plantain\u003c\/em\u003e’s evocation of the Canadian Caribbean community is another strong contender in this field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eFrom “Pig Head”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e On my first visit to Jamaica I saw a pig’s severed head. My grandmother’s sister Auntie had asked me to grab two bottles of Ting from the icebox and when I walked into the kitchen and pulled up the icebox lid there it was, its blood splattered and frozen thick on the bottles beneath it, its brown tongue lolling out from between its clenched teeth, the tip making a small dip in the ice water.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e My cousins were in the next room so I clamped my palm over my mouth to keep from screaming. They were all my age or younger, and during the five days I’d already been in Hanover they’d all spoken easily about the chickens they strangled for soup and they’d idly thrown stones at alligators for sport, side-eyeing me when I was too afraid to join in. I wanted to avoid a repeat of those looks, so I bit down on my finger to push the scream back down my throat.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e Only two days before I’d squealed when Rodney, who was ten like me, had wrung a chicken’s neck without warning; the jerk of his hands and the quick snap of the bone had made me fall back against the coops behind me. He turned to me after I’d silenced myself and his mouth and nose were twisted up as if he was deciding whether he was irritated with me or contemptuous or just amused.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Ah wah?” he asked. “Yuh nuh cook soup in Canada?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Sure we do,” I said, my voice a mumble. “The chicken is just dead first.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e He didn’t respond, and he didn’t say anything about it in front of our other cousins, but soon after they all treated me with a newfound delicacy. When the girls played Dandy Shandy with their friends they stopped asking me to be in the middle and when all of them climbed trees to pluck ripe mangoes, they no longer hung, loose-limbed, from the branches and tried to convince me to clamber up and join them. For the first three days of my visit, they’d at least tease me, broad smiles stretching their cheeks, and yell down, “This tree frighten yuh like how duppy frighten yuh?” Then they’d let leaves fall from their hands onto my hair and laugh when I tried to pick them out of my plaits. I’d fuss and grumble, piqued at the taunting but grateful for the inclusion, for being thought tough enough to handle the same mockery they inflicted on each other. But after the chicken, they didn’t goad me anymore and they only approached me for games like tag, for games they thought Canadian girls could stomach.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“What’s taking you so long?” My mother came up behind me and instead of waiting for me to answer, leaned forward and peered into the icebox, swallowing hard as she did. “Great,” she whispered. “Are you going to be traumatized by this?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I didn’t quite know what she meant — but I felt like the right answer was no, so I shook my head. My mother was like my cousins. I hadn’t seen her butcher any animals, but back home she stepped on spiders without flinching, she cussed out men who tried to reach for her in the street, and I couldn’t bear her scoffing at me for screaming at a pig’s head.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Eloise!” Nana called. My grandmother came into the kitchen from the backyard and stood next to us, her hands on her hips. The deep arch in her back made her breasts and belly protrude, and the way she stood with her legs apart reminded me of a pigeon.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I hear Auntie call out she want a drink from the fridge. That there is the freezer yuh nuh want that. Yuh know wah Bredda put in there? Kara canna see that, she nuh raise up for it.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I closed the lid,” said my mother. “Anyway, it was a pig’s head. It’s not like she saw the pig get slaughtered. She’s fine.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Kara’s a soft one. She canna handle these things.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I felt my mother take a deep breath in and I suddenly became aware of all the exposed knives in the kitchen and wondered if there was any way I could hide them without being noticed. We were only here for ten days and my mother and Nana had already gotten into two fights — one in the airport on the day we landed, the other two nights after — and Auntie had threatened to set the dogs on them if they didn’t calm down.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Mi thought Canada was supposed fi be a civilized place, how yuh two fight like the dogs them? Cha.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I wondered if all daughters fought with their mothers this way when they grew up and started to tear up just thinking about it. Nana looked at me.\u003cbr\/\u003e “See? She ah cry about the head.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “It’s not about the head,” said my mother. “She just cries over anything.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Like I say. 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.
