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Heroes in My Head
The incredible story of renowned feminist activist Judy Rebick’s struggle with depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
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Hope Has Two Daughters
Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.
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Her prose is sleek, her humour sharp, and her voice fuelled by kindness, rooted in truth. Hunting Houses reads like a story you thought you knew, then you realize that Britt does not write characters, she writes humans; humans always have layers, and they are always astonishing.\" — Catherine Leroux, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Party Wall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Fanny Britt’s \u003cem\u003eHunting Houses\u003c\/em\u003e is as transparent and true a picture of startling, soul-seizing, everyday love as you’ll ever come across in fiction. But here, also, is the kind of haunting temptation that can threaten enduring love, the hairline crack from the past that promises to break apart everything that matters. Think Chekhov’s Lady with Lapdog or poor Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina — if those women were to fall in love in 80s Montreal, if they had to line up all night on the sidewalk waiting for Pearl Jam tickets, if they grew up to be real estate agents with an eye for homey interiors and faults in the foundation. Think of all the subtle, complex deals women make with themselves to stay true. In bone-honest, luminous prose, Britt shows the nature of lust and how we can become the playthings of our past desires, however illusory.\" — Lisa Moore, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eFebruary and Caught\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Britt’s novel is an unflinching reminder that heartbreak doesn’t discriminate… . 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Hunting Houses
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.
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I Am Because We Are
In this innovative memoir, a daughter tells the story of her mother, a pan-African hero who faced down misogyny and battled corruption in Nigeria.
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The protagonist, Candace, is a recently divorced writer who trades her Manhattan life for a cottage in the Hamptons … [\u003cem\u003eIs There Still Sex in the City?\u003c\/em\u003e is] brimming with the snappy rhetorical questions and taxonomic acronyms that became Bushnell's signature back in the stiletto days … While Carrie was a bright-eyed anthropologist, Candace and her friends are survivalists; even beyond the City, it's a jungle out there.” — \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“What comes after cosmos and toxic bachelors? Fuelled by chilled rosé, Sex and the City scribe Candace Bushnell is masterfully decoding a new era of single life.” — \u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“From Cosmos to rosé, her current beverage of choice, Bushnell may drink pink. But she knows how to write dark.” — \u003cem\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The book captures the buoyancy of the writer’s brand … As with the show, there’s a lot to relish. Bushnell’s portrayals of the women in her circle somehow feel both forgiving and clinical, with an anthropologist’s matter-of-factness … Bushnell wrestles smartly with the theme of aging, with how being a ‘fiftysomething’ woman is different from being a ‘thirtysomething’ woman … This Bushnell writes most gracefully about topics that are not sex and dating … The city is big, Bushnell implies, but not endless. The sex never left it. But was sex ever really the point?” — \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“As she did in her bestselling \u003cem\u003eSex in the City\u003c\/em\u003e, Bushnell examines her own and her friends’ experiences with dry wit, delivering sharp social observations about the trials and piquant pleasures of looking for love at a certain age.” — \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“While [Bushnell] doesn’t bring back Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, or Samantha, it feels a bit like we’re at brunch with middle-aged versions of those archetypes, and they’re still talking about love and sex because, well, of course. The book, part memoir, part fiction, is a guide to the Ides of Fifty … Much like in the original SATC, Bushnell and her friends experience every romantic possibility so we don’t have to … Bushnell also touches on poignant aspects of what she calls ‘middle-aged madness’: the death of a parent, the isolation of divorce, the ache of realizing that even the most gorgeous among us will eventually become invisible.” — \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Before Carrie Bradshaw was written into existence, there was a sexy blonde scribe pounding Manhattan’s pavement in search of love —or its lustiest approximation — armed with nothing but a Cosmo, a computer, and couture. We are of course talking about Candace Bushnell, the original Carrie, whose \u003cem\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/em\u003e column-turned-book \u003cem\u003eSex and the City\u003c\/em\u003e became arguably one of the most era-defining television series in history. 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Or did Carrie find herself in her fifties child-free, single again, and wondering how to get back in the game, only to have her gynecologist recommend a Mona Lisa laser treatment because ‘your vagina is not \u003cem\u003eflexible enough\u003c\/em\u003e’? Ugh. Such are the humiliations awaiting the female in middle age. That you-gotta-laugh-or-you-cry place is where Candace Bushnell, with her usual sparkling candor, begins \u003cem\u003eIs There Still Sex in the City?\u003c\/em\u003e.” — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Bushnell’s literary penchant for what keeps us intrigued never disappoints.” — \u003cem\u003eHamptons Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Bushnell’s voice is as knowing and sharp as ever … As with \u003cem\u003eSATC\u003c\/em\u003e’s ‘toxic bachelors’ and ‘modelizers,’ there’s a new taxonomy: ‘Cubbing,’ the pursuit of older women by younger men; or ‘MAM,’ for middle-aged madness, a late-onset midlife crisis for women. She also updates a chapter on ‘bicycle boys’ — then, the charmingly rumpled literary types on vintage bikes, now wealthy guys in Lycra.” — \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“It’s hard out there for a cougar. But for Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, it’s exactly the age when women need her the most. Her latest book addresses … women in their fifties and sixties who suddenly find themselves dating again. 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Edith Wharton, Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy can all be cited, in varying degrees, as Bushnell’s predecessors, with a bit of Elaine Dundy thrown in … Compared with the hugely popular television series, the book is tough, unapologetic, and jittery with anxiety … hilarious, hard-edged, delightful, harsh, elegant and fun.” — \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The book that sparked a cultural phenomenon.” — \u003cem\u003eOprah\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“I did not move to New York because I watched Sex and the City. I moved to New York because I read it … [It is] dark and cynical and weird … Everyone is mean, and selfish, and complicated, and many of them are not rich, and most of them have wardrobes that go unmentioned … All are reported with Bushnell’s savvy reporter’s eye.” — \u003cem\u003eGarage Vice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Fascinating … Hilarious.” — \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Sly … Sharp.” — \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“A breath of fresh air…. 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Now that the appropriate time had passed since my divorce, I should throw myself back into the dating world and write about what it was like to be dating over fifty. I could do internet dating. I could hire a matchmaker…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI cut her off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don’t think so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wasn’t ready to start dating. But most of all, I didn’t want to. I’d been in relationships for nearly thirty-five years. I’d even experienced the full relationship cycle — fall in love, get married, and get divorced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd now I was supposed to do it all over again? Was engaging in the relationship cycle the only thing I could do with my life? I thought about that good old definition of crazy: Doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was time to put an end to the cycle. And so I decided for the first time in thirty-four years, to be man-free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis also meant being sex-free. At this point in my life, I’m not a casual sex person.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn’t talk about it, of course. The topic of sex, once the source of so much amusement, embarrassment, fear and joy, rarely came up. My single friends had been single forever and not dating and therefore not getting any, while my married friends were married and dealing with kids and also — I imagined — not getting any.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, delivers a highly entertaining book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-08-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, delivers a highly entertaining book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Is There Still Sex in the City?
Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, delivers a highly entertaining book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487003043","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487006211","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770898806","BASICMainSubject":"FIC019000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Women","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Historical \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"FIC019000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC044000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC014000","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Nam-Joo, Cho","Contributor_1":"Chang, Jamie","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe runaway bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally, \u003ci\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982 \u003c\/i\u003eis the most important book to have come out of South Korea since Han Kang’s \u003ci\u003eThe Vegetarian.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Jiyoung is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s.\u003cbr\/\u003eKim Jiyoung is representative of her generation:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother.\u003cbr\/\u003eIn primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime.\u003cbr\/\u003eIn high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night.\u003cbr\/\u003eIn university, she is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships by her professor.\u003cbr\/\u003eIn the office, she is an exemplary employee who is overlooked for promotion by her manager.\u003cbr\/\u003eAt home, she is a wife who has given up her career to take care of her husband and her baby.\u003cbr\/\u003eKim Jiyoung is depressed.\u003cbr\/\u003eKim Jiyoung has started to act out.\u003cbr\/\u003eKim Jiyoung is her own woman.\u003cbr\/\u003eKim Jiyoung is insane. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim Jiyoung’s husband sends her to see a psychiatrist.\u003cbr\/\u003eThis is his clinical assessment of the everywoman in contemporary Korea.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487006990","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR CHO NAM-JOO AND \u003cem\u003eKIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternational Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLonglist, National Book Award for Translated Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 100 Notable Books of 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eTime \u003c\/em\u003eMagazine Must-Read Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eLitHub\u003c\/em\u003e Most Anticipated Book of 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book’s implications were unlike any other, and I was impressed … It’s a thought-provoking book.” — RM, member of K-pop group BTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I read the book and it changed how I think. Everything I’ve put aside, thinking it doesn’t mean anything, is actually because I am a woman. I realized how unfair it has been all this time.” — Sooyoung, member of K-pop group Girls’ Generation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A sensation when it appeared in South Korea in 2016, this novel recounts, in the dispassionate language of a case history, the descent into madness of a young wife and mother — a Korean Everywoman whose plight illuminates the effects of a sexist society.” — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A cultural call to arms … Like Bong Joon Ho’s Academy Award–winning film \u003cem\u003eParasite\u003c\/em\u003e, which unleashed a debate about class disparities in South Korea, Cho’s novel was treated as a social treatise as much as a work of art.” — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This novel is about the banality of the evil that is systemic misogyny … Upon its publication in South Korea in 2016, the book, which sold more than a million copies, had an \u003cem\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/em\u003e effect, propelling a feminist wave. It’s easy to see why.” — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As she unveils the lifetime of misogyny her protagonist has faced in South Korea, Cho Nam-Joo points to a universal dialogue around discrimination, hopelessness, and fear.” — \u003cem\u003eTime \u003c\/em\u003eMagazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cho’s novel became a rallying cry for South Korean women … While Cho’s focus is on South Korean culture, the normalisation of violence and harassment in the book seems all too familiar.” — \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cho Nam-joo’s third novel has been hailed as giving voice to the unheard everywoman … [\u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung\u003c\/em\u003e]has become both a touchstone for a conversation around feminism and gender and a lightning rod for anti-feminists who view the book as inciting misandry … [The book] has touched a nerve globally … The character of Kim Jiyoung can be seen as a sort of sacrifice: a protagonist who is broken in order to open up a channel for collective rage. Along with other socially critical narratives to come out of Korea, such as Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning film, \u003cem\u003eParasite\u003c\/em\u003e, her story could change the bigger one.” — \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Cho Nam-joo] pulls no punches in her delineation of cultural misogyny … The author’s particular achievement is in blending political and stylistic concerns in a cool tone carefully captured in Jamie Chang’s translation … Cho’s moving, witty, and powerful novel forces us to face our reality, in which one woman is seen, pretty much, as interchangeable with any other.” — \u003cem\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/em\u003e (U.K.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The novel’s virtue lies in its broad social impact … To read the book is to imagine being a restive, aggrieved millennial and to trace [Kim Jiyoung’s] path through everyday misogyny.” — \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e has much in common with Han Kang’s\u003cem\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/em\u003e.” — \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A clear-eyed look at damage done.” — \u003cem\u003eStraits Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In this fine — and beautifully translated — biography of a fictional Korean woman, we encounter the real experiences of many women around the world.” — \u003cem\u003eSpectator \u003c\/em\u003e(U.K.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This tale has immediate resonance … Cho’s matter-of-fact delivery underscores the pervasive gender imbalance, while just containing the empathic rage.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book was fresh and shocking to me. It traces the life cycle of an ordinary, typical woman from her school days and working life to marriage and childbirth. At the same time, it shows the history of the women’s policies in Korea.” — Lee Myung-sun, President of the Korean Women’s Development Institute\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I loved this novel. Kim Jiyoung’s life is made to seem at once totally commonplace, and nightmarishly over-the-top. As you read, you constantly feel that revolutionary, electric shift, between commonplace and nightmarish. This kind of imaginative work is so important and so powerful. I hope this book sells a million more copies.” — Elif Batuman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Written with unbearably clear-sighted perspective, \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e possesses the urgency and immediacy of the scariest horror thriller — except that this is not technically horror, but something closer to reportage. I broke out in a sweat reading this book.” — Ling Ma, author of\u003cem\u003e Severance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book writes about the life of a woman living in Korea: the despair of an ordinary woman, which she experiences without complaint. The fact that it’s not about ‘someone special’ is extremely shocking, but also highly relatable.” — Sayaka Murata, author of \u003cem\u003eConvenience Store Woman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book constantly resonated with me — it would be better to say that there’s nothing we don’t know about the book than there are things we do know.” — Mieko Kawakami, Akutagawa Prize–winning writer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fierce and powerful look at modern-day Korean society through the lens of a refreshingly new protagonist. Born in 1982, Kim Jiyoung wins us over with her tolerance and strength. She is every one of us who has been invisible.” — Weike Wang, author of \u003cem\u003eChemistry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What any woman might have experienced at least once in her life is calmly portrayed in every two or three pages of the book. The small and big injustices and irregularities — it’s a curse only women are subjected to … The writer of the novel is — or was — exhausted in Korea, for the same reason as I am. The woman who, just like me, bears all the struggles for nothing. Just learning about this alone is enough to make the book a worthwhile read.” — Amamiya Karin, author of \u003cem\u003eAngry Seoul\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is strange that tears welled up in my eyes because this story is not at all unfamiliar to me. It is my story and also that of innumerable women of the same generation who grew up under subtle discrimination and violence.” —Choe Jieun, journalist, \u003cem\u003eIZE Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The argument that this is a must-read book for Koreans didn’t sound hollow to me because as I was reading the book, I could understand a little what it is like to live as a woman in Korea.” —Jeong Hyeongmo, culture editor, \u003cem\u003eJoongAng Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What’s exceptional about this book is how unexceptional its main character is: she is living the typical life of a Korean woman. It’s a testimony of subtle hardship and everyday discrimination. You’ll probably see something you recognize in there too.” — \u003cem\u003eLitHub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] spirited debut … The brutal, bleak conclusion demonstrates Cho’s mastery of irony. This will stir readers to consider the myriad factors that diminish women’s rights throughout the world.” –– \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book’s strength lies in how succinctly Cho captures the relentless buildup of sexism and gender discrimination over the course of one woman’s life … The story perfectly captures misogynies large and small that will be recognizable to many.” — \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cho deploys a formal, almost clinical prose style that subtly but effectively reinforces the challenges Korean women like Jiyoung endure throughout their lives in multiple contexts — familial, educational, and work-related … \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung \u003c\/em\u003eeffectively communicates the realities Korean women face, especially discrimination in the workplace, rampant sexual harassment, and the nearly impossible challenge of balancing motherhood with career aspirations.” — \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Uncompromising and powerful, [\u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e] shows hidden misogyny in sharp relief.” — \u003cem\u003eBookseller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Though she’s a fictional character, Kim Jiyoung is a symbolic figure in Korea. It seems her status will be even more elevated as novel \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e recently became a million seller.” — \u003cem\u003eKorea Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Not only a riveting read, but a mirror to society that is daring enough to portray us as faceless as we truly are.” — \u003cem\u003eKorean Literature Now\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It has touched the hearts of readers of diverse backgrounds across Korea for its subtleness. Rather than depicting extreme situations for the sake of the plot, the book calmly describes common experiences that happen in the everyday lives of Korean women — things that have always been there, but have never been thought of as problematic until recently.” — \u003cem\u003eKorea Joon Gang Daily\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Irene, a member of the girl group Red Velvet, faced an online backlash after she told a fan that she’d been reading \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e, a book that quietly chronicles all the small ways women experience being ‘less than’ in Korea … [and] illustrates the injustices faced by Korean women.” — \u003cem\u003eQuartz Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Published without fanfare … the book sales rose steeply through word of mouth, and now it is the best-selling fiction. It is used as teaching material for some universities’ sociology courses, and Roh Hoe-chan, the floor leader of the Justice Party, gave the book as a gift to President Moon Jae-in … \u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e became a social phenomenon.” —\u003cem\u003eHankook Ilbo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e is an issues-driven novel … It was also the most talked about book in the spring of 2017.” —\u003cem\u003eChosun Pub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chilling.” — \u003cem\u003eDomino \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Compelling … A sharp punch.” — \u003cem\u003eTimes of London\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eKim Jiyoung, Born 1982\u003c\/em\u003e’s] debut in North America was highly anticipated, and now that I’ve read this slim novel, I see what all the fuss was about.” — \u003cem\u003eI’ve Read This\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally and the most important book to have come out of South Korea since The Vegetarian.","PrizeCode_0":"Long-listed","PrizeName_0":"05","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-04-14","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally and the most important book to have come out of South Korea since The Vegetarian.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
A bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally and the most important book to have come out of South Korea since The Vegetarian.
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Mermaids and Ikons
Beloved poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen’s first work of nonfiction in a handsome A List edition.
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Moving Targets
Moving Targets is an expansive and essential collection of critical prose by legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood.
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Museum of Bone and Water
A provocative investigation of the human body — our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire.
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That said, McKeon’s ability to engage with instead of dictatingto is powerful and unifying, specifically as she provides the type of ammunition needed for readers to abandon existing comfort zones or truths fabricated for self-preservation. She urges us to learn and listen (but \u003cem\u003eactually \u003c\/em\u003elisten). She’s patient but forceful in offering her many (many) facts. I’ve never liked the word \u003cem\u003enice\u003c\/em\u003e, and liked the idea of aspiring to be nice even less. Thankfully, McKeon makes \u003cem\u003enice\u003c\/em\u003e a non-word — a notion or descriptor that means nothing and does nothing. She sets us free of the rhetoric associated with niceness and exchanges the burden of playing by the rules for the data, statistics, and emphasis on intersectionality that will help us, collectively,to obliterate them.” — Anne T. Donahue, author of \u003cem\u003eNobody Cares\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lauren McKeon looks beyond the traditional lens of male power to see what we truly need to achieve a more equitable world — not simply more women at the top of government and business, but more freedom to define and create a world that doesn’t abide by the dated rules of the patriarchy. Drawing on a variety of women’s stories and lived experiences, McKeon shows us that there are plenty of ways to live outside the lines and create change rather than wait for it.” — Gemma Hartley, author of \u003cem\u003eFed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lauren McKeon is one of the most important journalists writing about feminist issues in this country today. This impeccably researched and reported book is a revelation, an inspiration, a punch in the gut, and a fierce rallying cry. It’s a definite must read for anyone who cares about women’s current reality, and women’s future in this country and beyond.” — Stacey May Fowles, author of \u003cem\u003eBaseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eWhatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Lauren McKeon’s] vital, keenly insightful work is a must-read.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“McKeon uses plain language and an army of external sources to illuminate the puppet strings of power … \u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls \u003c\/em\u003eavoids despairing, instead positing a hopeful roadmap toward a future wherein women will not just attain power, but will topple and rebuild it in their own image.” — \u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Through a wealth of examples of women and communities working to topple power structures in a variety of sectors, \u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls \u003c\/em\u003eis a thoughtful, bold read that envisions a future in which women create new styles of leadership.” — \u003cem\u003eRabble.ca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Timely … [\u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e] will open your eyes to a better way of doing things.” — \u003cem\u003eI’ve Read This\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls \u003c\/em\u003eprovides a rallying cry for feminists of any age to once again challenge the current paradigm and institutions that continue to disempower women. McKeon’s book contains a healthy amount of outrage and antidote that will leave the reader with tools to do more than just get angry — it will also create for themselves and for future generations recipes for working toward systemic change … \u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls \u003c\/em\u003ebelongs on the bookshelf alongside Susan Faludi’s \u003cem\u003eBacklash\u003c\/em\u003e, Susan Douglas’s \u003cem\u003eEnlightened Sexism\u003c\/em\u003e, Sylvia Bashevkin’s W\u003cem\u003eomen, Power, Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, and Linda Trimble’s \u003cem\u003eMs. Prime Minister\u003c\/em\u003e — all important contemporary books that lay out feminist issues. It adds to the conversation and stands upon the shoulders of these giants in terms of moving feminist thought ahead.” — \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR LAUREN MCKEON AND \u003cem\u003eF-BOMB\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“However you define feminism, read this book. McKeon’s chronicle of our collective Conditions of Persistence reveals the ravages of exclusion, organized opposition, and denial. This compassionate airing of our failings clears the ways forward. Race, privilege, gender, sexuality; the work to be done, your invitation to the conversation, is here.” — Karen Walton, writer for \u003cem\u003eOrphan Black\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lauren McKeon’s \u003cem\u003eF-Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e is the antidote to feeling at a loss for examples of why intersectional feminism is so very urgently needed now. With a journalist’s attention to research and context, an activist’s drive for meaningful action and policy-change, and a memoirist’s craft, McKeon has written a necessary call to action.” — Erin Wunker, author of \u003cem\u003eNotes from a Feminist Killjoy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eF-Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderfully uncomfortable peek into the lives and perspectives of folks who need to be seen, heard, and understood for the good of the feminist movement. McKeon mixes deep introspection with a s#!tload of research to bring us a much-needed commentary that will both anger and inspire you.” — Rachel Ricketts, founder of lossandfoundxo.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In absorbing passages that evoke the seduction and subterfuge found in spy thrillers, McKeon chronicles her encounters with female leaders of men’s rights groups.” — \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“F-Bomb isn’t a typical creative non-fiction or narrative book — it’s blunt, honest, and well-researched. It’s the book to read on the current political climate.” — \u003cem\u003eFLURT Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In a manner that is both personal and unpretentious, McKeon deftly critiques more palatable ‘empowerment’ and ‘choice’ narratives of feminism, and demonstrates why our feminism(s) must be intersectional, embrace difference, and begin with compassion.” — \u003cem\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“McKeon’s interviews and research shed much-needed light on feminism via its most ardent critics.” — \u003cem\u003eUnderstorey Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Now comes \u003cem\u003eF-Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, in which Lauren McKeon ventures to interview and understand women vociferously against feminism. It gets ugly, but she handles it with aplomb.” — \u003cem\u003eStraight Dope\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“McKeon proves a trustworthy and entertaining guide taking us through the tangled mess of lies, deliberate misunderstandings, and sad self-centredness that characterize the groups arrayed against the progress of feminism.” — \u003cem\u003eLiisBeth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For those who are skeptical about an uptick in men’s-rights activism, McKeon’s evidence is compelling. Through a combination of personal interviews and statistical analysis, she weaves a persuasive narrative highlighting the covert and explicit attitudes to gender politics and, specifically, feminism… . Rather than merely pointing out the areas in which women are facing resistance to equality, however, the book goes to great lengths to pose solutions. McKeon calls for a new strain of feminism, where different groups advocate for their own interests but come together to fight for common goals.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Georgia Straight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eOn November 8, 2016, I tried to pretend the TVs at my gym did not exist. I’d shown up that night to my weekly class expecting to walk out sweaty and exalted. If America elected a woman as its leader (as all the pundits and polls suggested the country would) then, surely, Canada would follow. Anything felt possible. I imagined a cascade of broken status quos — belligerent white men in crisp suits falling like dominos. But over the next hour disbelief replaced excitement. At one point, our class melted away from our workout stations to pool, lost, around the TV. Women muttered shit, what, no, over and over again. That night, I couldn’t sleep. I stayed seated on my bed, cross-legged, stunned. It didn’t matter that I wasn’t American, or that one of the wokest men on Earth supposedly ran my own country. Electing a blatant misogynist to one of the world’s most powerful positions symbolized something: we were fucked.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eSince then, the question of women and power has undergone something of a renaissance — largely because we’ve been forced to confront, once again, how much of it women still don’t have. Quite literally overnight, many of us went from believing, with good reason, that we’d never been closer to equality — and power — to reckoning with just how far away from both women truly were. In response, women woke up, gathered, and demanded change. All around the world, they protested. The momentum from the Women’s March on Washington built into #MeToo and a very public reckoning with the everyday ways in which women’s power and autonomy are constantly undermined.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWatching it all, I was galvanized. But I also felt as though I was stuck in a not-so-fun house of magic mirrors. Come one, come all! Watch as the road to equality shrinks, stretches, distorts! Sometimes it seemed as if our fury, powerful in its own right, could propel us anywhere we wanted to go: into public office, into the C-suite, into a world in which we had bodily autonomy. Other times, as the anti-feminist backlash grew louder, bolder, and more expansive, it seemed as though women were in our most precarious spot yet. I began to think of feminist power as a paradox: from some vantages, we seemed closer than ever to achieving it; from others, we’d never been farther away.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eI have spent the bulk of my journalism career investigating the ways in which women navigate, and in many cases push back against, the expectations of the world around them. In doing this, I now realize, what I’ve really been asking, consciously or not, is how women disrupt and reimagine power structures, how they gain power both in and over their lives. Many of the women I’ve interviewed are pioneers in their fields, often ones dominated by men, and you could say they are subverting from within. Others are pushing at established power structures from the outside, rallying from the grassroots. They are all inspiring and amazing. But is what they’re doing working? These past few years have illuminated some stark, and seemingly contradictory, truths. Despite immense progress, no amount of success can immunize women against the toxic, sexist environments around them, and it is not uncommon for women to be utterly alone: one of few in their field, the only woman in management at their company, or the only one breaking a certain convention.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe more I heard their stories, the more I wondered: Even if a woman won the next American or Canadian federal election, what would that victory gain us? Or, put another way: Do we have the very concept of women and power all wrong? I’m not saying I want all the feminists to give up the fight, retreat to their kitchens, and let one pucker-mouthed man and his acolytes burn the planet. I want women to attain the same powerful positions afforded to men, in equal numbers. But it’s also dangerous to see that status, in and of itself, as a panacea to centuries of Western civilization, all built on foundational histories of sexism, misogyny, and violence against women. A woman prime minister certainly wouldn’t “cancel out” this seemingly new brand of misogyny, dredged up for all the world to see. In fact, the past few years have revealed that any woman, or member of another equity-seeking group, who stands where white, straight, cisgender men usually do is certain to face violent backlash. Or, as University of Cambridge classics professor Mary Beard argues in her short manifesto Women and Power, throughout time women have been placed in, or near to, positions of power simply to fail. To illustrate her point, Beard borrows from Greek mythology, referring to Clytemnestra, who rules over her city while her husband fights in the Trojan War, only to be murdered by her own children after she refuses to cede her new leadership upon his return (well, okay, she also killed her husband rather than go back down the patriarchal chain). Or more recently, Beard suggests, consider Theresa May or Hillary Clinton. For women, power is messy from every angle.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003ePerhaps, then, it’s finally time to start rethinking feminism’s one-time end goals, to ditch our old checklists for equality. Yes, let’s not abandon our strategizing toward getting more women to the top, but let’s also examine a deeper, less considered problem: that is, what the view from “the top” looks like for women once they’re there. What if we could redefine not just women’s path to power but the very concept of power itself? Or more radical yet: What if we stopped focusing on playing the game better, ditched the rulebook, and refused to play their game at all? What would power even look like to us if we weren’t always visualizing it within the context of men?\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An insightful novel that shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power and ditching convention.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-03-03","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An insightful novel that shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power and ditching convention.","Subtitle":"Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
No More Nice Girls
An insightful novel that shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power and ditching convention.
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Taking the concept of \u003cem\u003eamor mundi\u003c\/em\u003e as her starting point, she muses on the difficulty of loving the world. Why is it so hard, and why must we love the world? The love Hannah discusses here is not love in the conventional sense. To love the world means reconciling oneself with it, in all its imperfection and weakness — because this reconciliation is necessary for its continued existence. For Hannah Arendt, it was a case of “understanding and accepting what really happened.” How could anyone love the world after the Holocaust? In what world is something like the Holocaust even possible?\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah links love for the world, \u003cem\u003eamor mundi\u003c\/em\u003e, to responsibility, reflection, and judgement. A love that presupposes reflection over one’s own actions and an understanding of their consequences. In this approach, there are parallels to her thoughts on evil. Indifference can, according to Hannah, be fertile ground for evil, and the opposite of indifference is reflection. As a result, everyone has a responsibility to reflect on their own actions, a responsibility to choose, a responsibility not to simply obey orders and follow the crowd.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eYet the argument Hannah would come to call the \u003cem\u003ebanality of evil\u003c\/em\u003e aroused strong disgust and anger in many of her contemporaries. Hannah’s description of Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, as an unimaginative bureaucrat who was simply doing his job shocked the world. Critics saw Hannah’s argument as a diminishment of Eichmann’s guilt, and the book was slated everywhere. Friends and colleagues turned their backs on her. In an infamous interview with Günter Gaus on West German TV, just after the publication of \u003cem\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), Hannah is asked whether she wishes she had never written the book. Does she believe that, despite all the negative reactions — all the hate — she did the right thing by writing the book the way she did?\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah, a middle-aged woman by the time of the interview, listens to Gaus’s question with a frown. She is wearing a dark dress, and her once-black hair, though thick as ever, is flecked with grey. She has one leg nonchalantly crossed over the other, her dark eyes guarded yet alert, and she is holding a cigarette in one hand. 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On Love and Tyranny
In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt.
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{"id":6582752346171,"title":"Once More with Feeling","handle":"once-more-with-feeling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom award-winning author Méira Cook comes a novel exploring the intricacies and interconnected lives of one community in a small and colourful prairie city. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter twenty years Max Binder is still in love with his fiery wife, Maggie, and is determined to get her the perfect fortieth birthday gift. But Max’s singular desire — to make his wife happy — leads to an unexpected event that changes the course of his family’s life and touches the people who make up their western prairie city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet over the course of a single year, \u003ci\u003eOnce More With Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this city through intersecting moments and interconnected lives. 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But Max’s singular desire — to make his wife happy — leads to an unexpected event that changes the course of his family’s life and touches the people who make up their western prairie city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet over the course of a single year, \u003ci\u003eOnce More With Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this city through intersecting moments and interconnected lives. The colourful citizens who make up the community are marked by transformation, upheaval, and loss: the worker at a downtown soup kitchen who recognizes a kindred spirit amongst the homeless; the aging sisters who everywhere see the fleeting ghosts of two missing neighbourhood children; a communal voice of mothers anxious for the future of their children in the discomfiting world they inhabit. Award-winning author Méira Cook has crafted a novel that is at once funny, poignant, and yes, full of feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Vital and vivid characters spring from the page, grab your heart, and won’t let go.” — Terry Fallis, Two-Time Winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Meira Cook … writes prose so fluid, so effortless, so vivid, you’re swept away on its sheer beauty and power… . \u003cem\u003eOnce More With Feeling\u003c\/em\u003e manages to be both sharp and tender, tragic and fiercely funny, and wholly satisfying.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Brimming with warmth and a wry, often surrealistic sense of humour, Cook’s vibrant narrative delves beneath the tenuous surfaces of the everyday, asking us to re-examine the ways in which we see ourselves and understand the world.” — Kerry Lee Powell, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated \u003cem\u003eWillem de Kooning’s Paintbrush\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Labyrinthine, projecting, reversing, traversing, all of life on a strand of a spider’s web — perhaps those words might tickle the intimate and intricate lives and loves that Cook shares in her magical pages… . the book reads like an extended poem, its elegant lines and diverse voices simply twisting and turning forever into a cat’s cradle conversation on women, mothers, daughters, sons, religion, life, death, growing up, tradition… . a damn good [novel].” — \u003cem\u003eHamilton Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Méira Cook has re-established her position as one of Manitoba’s, if not Canada’s, finest novelists.” — \u003cem\u003eJewish Post and News \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom “Pizza Chicken Dentist”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown at the Mission folks were idling on the sidewalk, smoking and waiting for the metal shutters at the kitchen counter to clatter up so that lunch could finally be served. “Folks,” was what Miss Leonard called the men spinning on their worn-down rubber heels in the weak iodine sunlight of early spring. Miss Leonard volunteered all her free time to the Mission and consequently had a proprietary attitude. She called everyone folks: the old timers sipping coffee and playing checkers in the dining room, the born-agains who came for breakfast and stayed for Christ, the teenage boys with their wire hanger shoulder blades angling through their “Born to Rock” T-shirts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes a woman would sidle or shuffle or strut into the Mission, her gait keeping pace with her disposition; the coin tosses of bravado or despondency that saw her through her days. Singly, or in spindly little groups, the women would wait in line at the lunch counter, their hunger for food or companionship rendering them bold. And they were folks, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive or six men were idling outside the Mission when Annunciata arrived, a thin brown girl clutching at the balloon-string of her occasional buoyancy. The snow had finally rotted away, winter rushing through the gutters and gurgling down the drains. A couple of the men were smoking, coaxing a last puff from their burnt-down cigarettes, holding each breath until their eyes bulged. The Mission opened its doors to the city’s jobless, the street people, the panhandlers, the squeegee kids, the homeless ones, although once, when Annunciata had wondered aloud at these poor doorstep ghosts, the Senior Admin. had corrected her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We don’t say homeless here, Anna. We say ‘persons experiencing homelessness.’” Senior Admin. was a stocky girl with a permanent furrow above her brow. A little asterisk in the arid homelessness of her face, although what it bore witness to, Annunciata couldn’t exactly say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Experiencing homelessness” was meant to convey the temporariness of the condition, the vagrant hope that poverty was merely a refugee camp on the way to permanent citizenship. A waystation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Morning, Isaac, Donny, Bodo,” Annunciata called, stepping through the men who obligingly allowed her passage, sucking back their smoke and paddling at the air in front of them. “Morning, Nachos and Mr. Wilson.” Weary of being told what not to call the Mission people, Annunciata had decided to learn as many names as she could and use them accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Morning Mr… Um.” His name wasn’t really Um but the old fellow was uncooperative when asked, and Mr. Um was the best she could do. Annunciata thought that perhaps he was secretive about his name because it was the only thing he owned. On the other hand, maybe he’d just forgotten it—drink did that to a fellow, and crack, and the dog-eyed loneliness that eats its own paws. His eyes were yellowish and his few remaining teeth were grayish. He never smiled and seldom spoke, but when he was hungry he rapped out a shave and a shoeshine on the metal shutters of the kitchen window, and when he was feeling perky he did a soft shoe shuffle in the dust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnunciata stopped to watch and applaud. “Bravo!” she clapped. Mr. Um made jazz hands and blew her a purposeful kiss. He had a heavy, stumbling gait but a perfect pitch for imaginary music. “Nice weather we’re having,” Annunciata replied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pizza, chicken,” he confided. Something like that. But Annunciata thought he said “pizza,” and then some other kind of food. Possibly chicken. It was going on nine and she had to hustle to report for kitchen duty. So did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Heavens, child, I’m glad we’re not waiting for you to make any big announcements,” said Miss Leonard when Annunciata came into the kitchen shrugging off her jacket and tying an apron around her waist. 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Once More with Feeling
A look at the interconnected lives in one small prairie city, and how their relationships evolve over the course of a year.
