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{"id":6811233288251,"title":"A Boring Wife Settles the Score","handle":"a-boring-wife-settles-the-score","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe eagerly anticipated sequel to the critically beloved and bestselling \u003ci\u003eAutopsy of a Boring Wife\u003c\/i\u003e finds the saucy and ever-appealing Diane, now turning fifty and with the wreckage of her marriage behind her, setting off on a new hilarious journey for romance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Boring Wife Settles the Score\u003c\/i\u003e marks the return of Diane, the raunchy and entertaining heroine of the prize-winning and bestselling \u003ci\u003eAutopsy of a Boring Wife\u003c\/i\u003e. Despite the end of her marriage, Diane still has plenty of love to give. Determined not to waste her days — that’s just not her style — she finds a job in a daycare and solace in cocktails with her best friend, Claudine, who convinces Diane her love life is not over. Diane wants romance and sees no reason why she shouldn’t have it, but she soon discovers, in her typically chaotic and hilarious manner, that for a woman approaching her fifties the task is not so simple as it is for a man.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T12:08:23-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T09:49:29-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Humor","Arachnide Editions","Book Club Pick","By (author) Lavoie Marie-Renée","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2021-07-06","Translated by Aaronson Arielle"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2295,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40190667685947,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487009373","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Boring Wife Settles the Score - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":337,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487009373","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40190668144699,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487009380","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Boring Wife Settles the Score - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487009380","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40190668275771,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487009397","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Boring Wife Settles the Score - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487009397","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6fee6a36-5dc5-411d-8edb-f48128e9e5c6.jpg?v=1687689496"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6fee6a36-5dc5-411d-8edb-f48128e9e5c6.jpg?v=1687689496","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23553574109243,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6fee6a36-5dc5-411d-8edb-f48128e9e5c6.jpg?v=1687689496"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6fee6a36-5dc5-411d-8edb-f48128e9e5c6.jpg?v=1687689496","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe eagerly anticipated sequel to the critically beloved and bestselling \u003ci\u003eAutopsy of a Boring Wife\u003c\/i\u003e finds the saucy and ever-appealing Diane, now turning fifty and with the wreckage of her marriage behind her, setting off on a new hilarious journey for romance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Boring Wife Settles the Score\u003c\/i\u003e marks the return of Diane, the raunchy and entertaining heroine of the prize-winning and bestselling \u003ci\u003eAutopsy of a Boring Wife\u003c\/i\u003e. Despite the end of her marriage, Diane still has plenty of love to give. Determined not to waste her days — that’s just not her style — she finds a job in a daycare and solace in cocktails with her best friend, Claudine, who convinces Diane her love life is not over. Diane wants romance and sees no reason why she shouldn’t have it, but she soon discovers, in her typically chaotic and hilarious manner, that for a woman approaching her fifties the task is not so simple as it is for a man.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A Boring Wife Settles the Score
The saucy and ever-appealing Diane, now turning fifty and with the wreckage of her marriage behind her, sets off on a new hilarious journey for romance.
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{"id":6899052609595,"title":"A Family Affair","handle":"a-family-affair","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships, \u003ci\u003eA Family Affair\u003c\/i\u003e confirms award-winning author Nadine Bismuth’s place as a remarkable chronicler of contemporary middle-class mores in the manner of Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, and Lorrie Moore. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning novelist and screenwriter for film and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etelevision Nadine Bismuth has returned with an unsparing portrait of twenty-first century life. In \u003ci\u003eA Family Affair\u003c\/i\u003e, love is the first casualty and deceit — towards others, towards oneself — the norm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKitchen designer Magalie is being cheated upon and so cheats in turn, in the office and with a divorced police officer who has hired her. 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I read it in one go … There is something frankly endearing in this portrait of the modern family. A book you will devour because Nadine Bismuth writes with an extraordinary, honest, accessible, evocative pen.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Radio-Canada","OtherText_Review_2":"A keen and lucid exploration of the mirages of love and motherhood.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_Review_3":"Nadine Bismuth, in a very contemporary style and with a distinctly Quebecois sense of humour, presents us her vision of relationships between men, women, children, parents. Under the heated floor of a hi-tech granite kitchen, she hides nothing. No, but she shatters the lid of that old cast iron casserole, confronting us with our contradictions and reminding us that it is never too late to start afresh, other than we are, elsewhere.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"ActuaLitté","OtherText_Review_4":"Bismuth writes page-turners, frankly and accessibly. Once started, you cannot stop. 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A Family Affair
A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships and a chronicle of contemporary middle-class mores.
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Moore switches effortlessly from topic to topic, scene to scene, past to present, and one perspective to another, as one might switch channels on a television. 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Alligator
Alligator moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland.
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{"id":6818233090107,"title":"Annabel","handle":"annabel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOnly three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. 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This book announces the arrival of a major writer.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"...a sprawling book filled with musical prose...","OtherText_Review_10":". . . Annabel is a novel about divisions, not only between the sexes but also between social classes and, perhaps most crucially, ways of being . . . Winter does a deft job of developing all the characters fully and making their motives understandable . . . 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Her novel is written with immense sensitivity and grace, not to be missed.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Jim Piechota","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Bay Area Reporter","OtherText_Review_4":"Read it because it's a story told with sensitivity to language that compels to the last page, and read it because it asks the most existential of questions. Stripped of the trappings of gender, [Kathleen] Winter asks, what are we?","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":". . . utterly original . . . a haunting story of family, identity, and the universal yearning to belong.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"O Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"Annabel's strength lies in probing the dilemma of sexuality and self-knowledge. I have never read such an intimate portrait of a person struggling to live inside a self that the world sees as a dreadful mistake.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_7":"Annabel is a stunning and stirring debut that signals the long-overdue arrival of a literary talent.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Halifax Chronicle Herald","OtherText_Review_8":"Annabel is an unforgettable novel of struggles, personal and inter-personal, and Winter's empathetic voice does them justice in a way that connects reader to story. Destined to be one of the biggest novels out of Newfoundland this year, this is a story of isolation and a communication breakdown that breaks a family down, and breaks the reader down along with them.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Chad Pelley","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"St. John's Telegram","OtherText_Review_9":"A book like this, its topic and beautiful language, the unrelenting sorrow, Winter's insightful characterizations and utter sensitivity, is difficult to do justice to with these few words. I simply want to tell people: read this book. Read it though you know little or nothing about its subject or the author. It will open you up. 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Annabel
Kathleen Winter's stunning debut novel, a national bestseller and is a beautifully sensitive story of family, identity, and the yearning to belong.
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Autopsy of a Boring Wife
The hysterically funny tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband is having an affair because, he says, she bores him.
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Nothing is ever as simple as it seems: the boundaries between friendship and sex dissolve; power relationships are turned on their heads, if only long enough to examine them from all angles; transgressions and escapes become new kinds of traps. In “Auditioning,” a young twin makes a desperate attempt to reclaim her individuality. In “Serving,” a father and a son give parallel accounts of what it looks like when you let life eat you from the inside out. In “Star of the Sea,” a man watches his past get literally torn down before his eyes. 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The ancient and peculiar mystery of intimacy — how we fit (or fail to fit) into the lives that surround us — winds its murky way through the whole collection, but each story burns with the excitement of a brand new case, completely original, and saturated with sharp detail. This is the work of a debut writer already at the top of her game. Please, Ms. Crocker, we want some more!","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXTRAORDINARY NEW TALENT\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eEva Crocker, daughter of Man Booker Prize—longlisted author Lisa Moore, is an explosive new voice on the literary scene and has received blurbs from Heather O’Neill and Zoe Whittall, among others. 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Walt’s father edged his way into the apartment as Walt stepped backwards to make room for him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“New windows?” His father looked around in the living room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s renovated.” Walt skimmed a hand along the sharp hairs growing on his jawbone. He was aware of the heat spreading across his face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Good, it’s easier to keep a new place clean. We drove by and saw you didn’t have any curtains up and your mother thought you might like to have some.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe door to the bathroom opened, the hall flooding with warm damp air and the smell of shampoo. Trent was wearing jeans and a t-shirt but his feet were bare. His hair was dripping, making dark circles on his shirt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Trent, this is my Dad.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrent took three steps down the hall and held out his hand. His feet leaving wet smudges on the floor. Walt’s back was against the closet door, which was made of thin strips of wood held together with a rubbery plastic. The door creaked against the weight of his body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I’m Trent.” Trent extended his hand. He was taller and broader than Walt’s father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuddenly, the apartment filled with a high-pitched bleating. At first it sounded like a bird but the louder it got the more mechanical it sounded. For a moment the three men stood staring at each other, paralyzed by the sound. Trent had dropped Walt’s father’s hand but they were still standing close enough to be touching. Walt held the curtains protectively against his chest. Trent’s dog barked on the back deck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s the fire alarm,” Trent said. “There’s something burning. Do you smell something burning?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s toast. I was making toast under the broiler,” Walt replied before darting out of the room.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eU.S. OUTREACH\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarrelling Forward\u003c\/em\u003e will be available on NetGalley and Edelweiss. We will also be doing a targeted mailing to indies booksellers, building on the reputation of our short story imprint, Astoria, following the Indies Introduce nomination for \u003cem\u003eDouble Dutch\u003c\/em\u003e by Laura Trunkey.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[A]n intimate and fascinating read.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"This Magazine","OtherText_Review_1":"Suggesting Alice Munro is both high and lazy praise – an easy way to say well-set short fiction and a pretty future for Crocker in CanLit – but there’s a quality to this Newfoundland author’s work that fans of the Nobel Prize winner will recognize, if they’re willing to displace age, place and decoration accordingly. Where Munro so remarkably captures rural banality, Crocker taps a similarly enthralling mundanity in Quebec’s urban bustle and Eastern Canada’s could-be-anywhere suburban sprawls.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_2":"A fine and enthralling collection that will excite and seduce readers.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarrelling Forward\u003c\/em\u003e, is a short-story collection unique for its diverse points of view … Crocker draws us in immediately … these brief pieces resonate with the reader for a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-03-18","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.","Subtitle":"Stories","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Barrelling Forward
Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.
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{"id":6816230080571,"title":"Bone and Bread","handle":"bone-and-bread","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for 2016 CBC Canada Reads\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBeena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods -- and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Montreal's Hasidic community of Mile End. Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow towards adulthood, their paths begin to diverge. 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Her search stirs memories and opens wounds, threatening to undo the safe, orderly existence she has painstakingly created for herself and her son. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eHeralded across Canada for the power and promise of her debut collection, \u003cem\u003eMother Superior\u003c\/em\u003e, Nawaz proves with \u003cem\u003eBone and Bread\u003c\/em\u003e that she is one of our most talented and unique storytellers.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-25T16:28:15-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T14:37:41-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Starred Reviews","Book Club Pick","By (author) Nawaz Saleema","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2013-03-15","Thrillers \u0026 Mystery"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":2295,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40213757263931,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890091","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Bone and Bread - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":517,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770890091","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213826699323,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892439","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Bone and Bread - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770892439","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40213826732091,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895744","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Bone and Bread - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895744","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_960031a2-8b33-491a-93dd-2c4a99e82749.jpg?v=1678598198"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_960031a2-8b33-491a-93dd-2c4a99e82749.jpg?v=1678598198","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324530966587,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_960031a2-8b33-491a-93dd-2c4a99e82749.jpg?v=1678598198"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_960031a2-8b33-491a-93dd-2c4a99e82749.jpg?v=1678598198","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for 2016 CBC Canada Reads\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBeena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods -- and by shared tragedy. 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Nawaz... is successful at building nuanced characters and reflecting the uneasy and untidy nature of family relationships.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Nadia Kidwai","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1":"Nawaz draws the core relationships with immaculately rendered delicacy; she gives the narrative time and space to unfold and evolve in a way that carries uncanny emotional punch.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Ian McGillis","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_2":"Bone and Bread... is an emotionally complex, riveting story. [It] is a poignant read, but it captivates because it brims with humanity. Nawaz hustles the reader along with vivid writing, scintillating characters, and the alluring element of mystery.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Jennifer Hunter","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_3":"Bone and Bread is ambitious... Nawaz successfully portrays a strong yet tumultuous bond between the two sisters.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Heather Leighton","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Nawaz invites her reader into an intimate and devastating history, and holds you right until the end.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Emily M. Keeler","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_5":"... absorbing...","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Athena McKenzie","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Zoomer","OtherText_Review_6":"Saleema Nawaz’s debut novel Bone and Bread sets poetic prose against the complex mythology of a small family... Nawaz’s wellcrafted narrative and vivid descriptions immerse the reader in Beena and Sadhana’s world.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Maisonneuve","OtherText_Review_7":"Saleema Nawaz returns with a big and beautiful novel... a first novel that rewards the reader's emotional involvement with a quietly tragic examination of the numerous solitudes in the life of one family.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Kamal Al-Solaylee","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_8":"…emotionally complex and nuanced…","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Alexis Kienlen","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Alberta Daily Herald Tribune","OtherText_Review_9":"With an elegance and fluidity of prose rare in first novels, Canadian writer Nawaz presents a masterful examination of the ties that bind people together and the quiet endurance required for sustaining those bonds through the countless travails of life and death.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A heady, powerfully emotional novel that is part family saga, part love story, and part mystery.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeName_0":"Quebec Writers' Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Canada Reads","PrizeYear_0":"2013","PrizeYear_1":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2013-03-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A heady, powerfully emotional novel that is part family saga, part love story, and part mystery.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Bone and Bread
A heady, powerfully emotional novel that is part family saga, part love story, and part mystery.
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It has been a long time since I’ve become tearful at the end of a novel but I must confess to doing so reading the final pages. 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Carry Me is full of this kind of searching, characters looking for a way to map their lives against war and love and change.” — Portland Press Herald\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens is a beautiful, lyric writer. His understanding of the age and command of it, moment to moment, is impressive … everything is beautiful in the details, in the smallness of personal moments even as we know that no matter how calm, how peaceful the moment, it will not last.” — Jason Sheehan, NPR\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Carry Me’s perspective on war’s tragedies is beautifully composed, and heartbreakingly credible.” — Shelf Awareness\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Behrens is a master, at home in the broad sweep of history and the intimate detail of a character’s experience. This is a novel that could be, should be, read in a hundred years.” — Jury, The Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR PETER BEHRENS AND THE O’BRIENS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “[The O’Briens] is impressive in its scope and ambitious in its goals. 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A novel that animates the past this vibrantly should make volumes of mere history blush. ‘Life burns hot,’ Fergus thinks, and so do these pages.” — Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Behrens’ use of crisp dialogue clearly conveys the fear, the longing and the unbridled hope of a young man teetering on the brink between starvation and salvation. But it is in his economical narrative that Behrens truly shines. ‘Life honed to the very edge. Sharpened on a whetstone. Chopping through the days. Working time like it was a sweep of hay.’” — Winnipeg Free Press\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“From a mountaintop in Ireland to the beckoning promise of America, there are scenes that will remain imprinted upon the reader’s mind. 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Carry Me
Set during the decades encompassing the First and Second World Wars, Carry Me is a devastating historical saga about love and family.
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The narrative is cohesive and propulsive, but it’s Moore’s mastery of language and image that sets her apart.","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Heather Cromarty","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_19":"Moore's ability to conceal a drum-tight plot line and an unflagging fidelity to the thematic pillars of Caught—mistakes and luck, trust and doubt, consequences and freedom—in the cloak of rough-and-tumble prose is something to behold.","OtherText_Review_19_Auth":"Laurie D Graham","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"The Malahat Review","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Leah Hager Cohen","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"Caught is an outstanding novel, combining the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Jeet Heer","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"Lisa Moore’s new book is a beautiful piece of writing…","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Duncan McMonagle","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"[T]his novel that is rife with realness, and beauty, and tension; so much it hurts, in the best possible way.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Morgan Murray","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Newfoundland Quarterly","OtherText_Review_5":"Moore’s prose is as vivid as ever...","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Susan G. 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A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.
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The novel walks a great line between paperback levity and psychological intelligence—exactly what you want in a summer read.","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Julia De Laurentiis Johnson","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_Review_12":"…sharp lines, seedy characters and the kind of can’t-put-it-down suspense you might expect from a dime store detective novel but with Lisa Moore-level construction, detail and meticulous prose. This isn’t Moore slumming it in suspense fiction—but genre elevation…","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"The Coast","OtherText_Review_13":"With linguistic verve and a magnified curiosity about whatever passes through her field of vision, Moore elevates the cops-and-robbers subgenre to literary respectability.","OtherText_Review_13_Auth":"Richard Cumyn","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_14":"The reader can only marvel at the precision of Moore's observations.","OtherText_Review_14_Auth":"Mark Frutkin","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_15":"...witty, retrospective, eloquent and exciting. Moore has crafted an old-timey adventure with good guys and bad guys — who are also one in the same.","OtherText_Review_15_Auth":"Amy Rosen","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_16":"...Moore’s Caught is a fantastic read. It’s a rapid ride, with a strong current of tension that never lets up.","OtherText_Review_16_Auth":"Jennifer Lori","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"PRISM international","OtherText_Review_17":"A superbly written novel that crosses literary boundaries, Caught will surely garner [Moore] even wider readership.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Mike Heffernan","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Atlantic Books Today","OtherText_Review_18":"Caught is a pleasure to read. The narrative is cohesive and propulsive, but it’s Moore’s mastery of language and image that sets her apart.","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Heather Cromarty","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_19":"Moore's ability to conceal a drum-tight plot line and an unflagging fidelity to the thematic pillars of Caught—mistakes and luck, trust and doubt, consequences and freedom—in the cloak of rough-and-tumble prose is something to behold.","OtherText_Review_19_Auth":"Laurie D Graham","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"The Malahat Review","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Leah Hager Cohen","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"Caught is an outstanding novel, combining the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Jeet Heer","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"Lisa Moore’s new book is a beautiful piece of writing…","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Duncan McMonagle","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"[T]his novel that is rife with realness, and beauty, and tension; so much it hurts, in the best possible way.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Morgan Murray","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Newfoundland Quarterly","OtherText_Review_5":"Moore’s prose is as vivid as ever...","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Susan G. Cole","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"NOW Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"…Caught proceeds like a lit fuse.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"David Chau","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_7":"As trippy, mellow, and revelatory as Hearn’s weed, Caught takes pleasure from rewriting crime formulas and gives pleasure in doing so.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Brett Josef Grubisic","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_8":"There is so much more to praise Moore for. The novel is rich with her subtle injections of humour, her careful pacing, and her clear yet coarse dialogue that leaves just enough unsaid. Of course, it also lives up to the ultimate test of a thriller – there is no doubt that this is a page-turner.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Kaiva Brammanis","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"McGill Daily","OtherText_Review_9":"…in Caught Moore has clearly set out to challenge the conventions of crime writing.","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Jeff Miller","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Cult Montreal","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback TV Tie-in","PublicationDate":"2013-05-24","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A remarkable novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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{"id":6813791027259,"title":"Clifford","handle":"clifford","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFirewater \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Harold Johnson returns to his childhood home in a northern Indigenous community for his brother Clifford’s funeral, the first thing his eyes fall on is a chair. It stands on three legs, the fourth broken off and missing. So begins a journey through the past, a retrieval of recollections of his silent, powerful Swedish father; his formidable Cree mother; and his brother Clifford, a precocious young boy who is drawn to the mysterious workings of the universe. As the night unfolds, memories of Clifford surface in Harold’s mind’s eye. 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The other end of the board, an eight-foot two-by-four, that he didn’t trim off, either because he didn’t want to spend time sawing it, or because he would get in trouble for wasting wood, was left jutting out on the other side of the post. “That piece of plywood is the shield. Now I’m going to come down the hill on that bicycle. That's my horse. And this” — a pole about six feet long — “is my lance.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“You watch.” He took me by the shoulders and stood me off to the side. “Now you’re going to see how it was done.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe came off that bit of hill on that bicycle that didn’t have any tires, just bare metal rims that rattled as he picked up speed. The hill, because the bicycle didn’t have any petals and he needed the assistance of gravity. One end of his lance tucked up under his arm, the other end — “You have to hit the shield right dead centre. 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Clifford
A moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.
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It will lead to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toy-maker is on the cusp of a transformative invention, all the way to present-day Ottawa Valley in Canada, where a journalist, battling a terrible disease, risks everything for one last chance to live. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking inspiration from a remarkable true story, \u003ci\u003eComing Up for Air \u003c\/i\u003eis a bold, richly imagined novel about the transcendent power of storytelling and the immeasurable impact of every human life. The legacy of the woman at its heart touches the lives of us all today, and this book reveals just how.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Born in Canada, she now lives in London, U.K., with her husband and three children, where she teaches creative writing in prisons.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Leipciger, Sarah","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine across oceans and time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does not know it, her decision will set in motion an astonishing chain of events. 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Coming Up for Air expands her range even further, exploring that eerie shoreline where land and ocean meet, where breathing becomes drowning, and life teeters on the very edge.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time","OtherText_Accolades_1":"A beautiful and moving novel with an intriguing multi-point-of-view structure and an interesting and diverse cast of characters — a lady’s companion in Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, a toymaker in Norway, and a mother caring for a daughter with cystic fibrosis. Sarah Leipciger weaves back and forth seamlessly — and suspensefully — among them. The prose is lovely, particularly the descriptions of nature, and the dialogue is punchy and spare. The ending is as unexpected as it is satisfying. A fine novel.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Roberta Rich, author of The Midwife of Venice and A Trial in Venice","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Leipciger’s beautiful words are elegant, sharp, and bold, but what makes Coming Up for Air completely stunning is that it shows how people, living at different times and in faraway places, can breathe life into each other. The three lives run through the novel, flowing farther and faster until they converge in a powerful rush. The ending left me gasping.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Claire Cameron, author of The Last Neanderthal and The Bear","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Glittering. Ambitiously imagined and richly woven. A triumph. From the first page, I was gripped not only by the scale of the narrative but the sheer fierce beauty of the writing. Here is a novel that dares to cross the boundaries of time, the elements, life and death, and does so with the twists and hooks and magic of a consummate storyteller.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Music Shop","OtherText_Accolades_4":"Vivid and evocative . . . moving and intricate . . . A book about tragedy, love, and ultimately hope.","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Claire Fuller, author of Bitter Orange","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA HISTORICAL NOVEL WITH COMMERCIAL APPEAL: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis novel bridges the literary and the commercial. 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More blurbs coming soon.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSPECIAL OUTREACH TO ORGANIZATIONS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe will seize on marketing opportunities with organizations that will be interested in this novel’s strong nonfiction hook. (Spoiler alert: Anouk, the protagonist of the 1980s storyline survives her CF long enough to be a candidate for a lung transplant because of the scientific advances of the last century, specifically the development of the plastic mannequins used to teach CPR. The CPR mannequin has a face modelled after that of L’Inconnue; Amund, the Norwegian toymaker seeking to make sense of the tragic drowning of his own son, uses her death mask when he uses modern plastics to realize his vision for the mannequin, thereby playing a part in a discovery that will save thousands of lives.) Organizations we will approach include: the Cystic Fybrosis Foundation in the U.S.; regional lung health associations; groups that encourage and facilitate organ donation, such as Donate Life America; and groups that teach CPR, including the American Heart Association.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Leipciger is a masterful and brilliant storyteller who writes beautiful, concise, and clear descriptions . . . [Coming Up for Air] is a fascinating and enthralling must-read.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eComing Up for Air\u003c\/em\u003e is effervescent and audacious — a novel in which kicking for the surface, no matter how desperate the odds, is always worthwhile.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_2":"Leipciger’s prose is rich and stirring.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine across oceans and time.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"Historical Writers’ Association Crown Award for Best Historical Fiction","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-03-03","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine across oceans and time.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Coming Up for Air
A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine across oceans and time.
