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Paris Undressed
In the spirit of Bringing Up Bébé comes the quintessential book about what French women can teach us about the world of lingerie.
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{"id":6582753853499,"title":"Passing Ceremony","handle":"passing-ceremony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBasic Black With Pearls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Helen Weinzweig’s brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom — and just about everyone else at the surreal and strangely moving wedding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a piece of music, \u003ci\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e is composed of brief, suggestive fragments that grow into a tightly integrated whole. There are bits of real and imagined conversation; polite dialogues that slide into mad comic banality; and scenes that could be quiet nightmares out of Borges. A satire and a rueful meditation on the ways people hurt one another, Weinzweig gives us a world suspended in time, an uneasy territory of the soul, which we all inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition features a new introduction by Jim Polk.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:13:23-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:13:23-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","By (author) Weinzweig Helen","Feminist Reads","Introduction by Polk Jim","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2017-08-26"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403456004155,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002602","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passing Ceremony - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":180,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002602","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413648326715,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002619","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passing Ceremony - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002619","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413648359483,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002626","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passing Ceremony - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487002626","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d3bbd4be-ade6-4bfa-b4e5-874914c8d602.jpg?v=1621110358"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d3bbd4be-ade6-4bfa-b4e5-874914c8d602.jpg?v=1621110358","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20453806211131,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d3bbd4be-ade6-4bfa-b4e5-874914c8d602.jpg?v=1621110358"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d3bbd4be-ade6-4bfa-b4e5-874914c8d602.jpg?v=1621110358","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBasic Black With Pearls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Helen Weinzweig’s brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom — and just about everyone else at the surreal and strangely moving wedding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a piece of music, \u003ci\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e is composed of brief, suggestive fragments that grow into a tightly integrated whole. There are bits of real and imagined conversation; polite dialogues that slide into mad comic banality; and scenes that could be quiet nightmares out of Borges. A satire and a rueful meditation on the ways people hurt one another, Weinzweig gives us a world suspended in time, an uneasy territory of the soul, which we all inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition features a new introduction by Jim Polk.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487003784","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770893702","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770898233","BASICMainSubject":"FIC046000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Jewish","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Jewish","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubject_0":"FIC046000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC019000","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Introduction by","Contributor_0":"Weinzweig, Helen (CA)","Contributor_1":"Polk, Jim","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBasic Black With Pearls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Helen Weinzweig’s brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. 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Its form seems built from mysterious, unconscious forces … As a whole, the powerful novel resembles a shattered reflection in a mirror, each page a different-sized shard of a splintered psyche … There’s a reason people are returning to [Helen Weinzweig’s] work now. Her art was committed to unshackling us from the illusion of any form of certainty — to keeping the unknown, unknown.” — \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e “A remarkable piece of writing.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Polished, forceful, and poetic.” — \u003cem\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“An unmistakable signature of a true artist.” — \u003cem\u003eBooks In Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Handled with skill.” — \u003cem\u003eChatelaine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“A brilliant first work of fiction.” — \u003cem\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Challenging and sophisticated.” — \u003cem\u003eQuarry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Helen Weinzweig and \u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eToronto Book Award Winner\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Thirty-five years after its initial publication and a hundred years since Weinzweig’s birth, \u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e is getting an admirable posthumous reissue via House of Anansi’s A-List series, asserting its relevance decades after it won the 1981 Toronto Book Award.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“I must concede that \u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e is so good as to have been well worth the exhilarating wait.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eBasic Black With Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e] is being rediscovered and acclaimed as a milestone in the history of Canadian women writers.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e “Glittering, uncomfortable, one-of-a-kind fiction … a daydream-spectacular, heavy on scenes from a rotten childhood and lightly dipped in madness — all of it delivered with spotlight-sharp images and iron-grey wit.” — \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“A funny and smart feminist classic that begs for rediscovery.” — \u003cem\u003e49th Shelf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Helen Weinzweig and \u003cem\u003eA View From the Roof\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“A neat juggling of actuality and surreality is one of the things that makes [Helen Weinzweig] such an extraordinary writer.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eYou sit there, father of the bride, you sit there straight and proud. 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Passing Ceremony
A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.
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Power Politics
A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing, Margaret Atwood.
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Her story [of Dr. Sima Samar] is one of hope and triumph, as are most of the tales in this straightforward, uplifting volume.” — \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Veiled Threat’s strength lies in its empirical portrayal of the injustices and inhumanities visited upon the Afghan people, especially woman and girls … [and] is to be applauded for its emotionally gripping disclosure of suffering and injustice.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“A brief but brilliant book about the hidden power of the women of Afghanistan … written in blazingly clear language, blessedly free of academic pretensions.” — \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Emotionally demanding reading … a passionate portrayal of recent events in Afghanistan from the perspective of a committed, feminist outsider.” — \u003cem\u003eHamilton Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“A powerful book that shows how women can change the world.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: In the Beginning(s) — the impact of agriculture, industrialization, and religion on the status of women\u003cbr\/\u003eChapter 2: Sex — from the pleasure principle to rape\u003cbr\/\u003eChapter 3: Religion, Culture, and Custom — the roles they’ve played over time\u003cbr\/\u003eChapter 4: Politics and Society — the power and the fury of changing world opinions \u003cbr\/\u003eChapter 5: The Economics and Energetics of Tomorrow — the future possibilities for girls and women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Chapter 1: In the Beginning(s)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo many beginnings. From delicate handprints on a cave wall to goddesses in ancient Mesopotamia; from political tyranny that came in the guise of a message from God to the convoluted journey to emancipation — the story of women is the longest revolution in history. So many times change was in the wind. So many times the finish line blurred. And so many times hope soared. Still, from Toronto to Timbuktu, the promise of equality has eluded half the world’s population. Now there’s a power shift. There’s never been a better time in human history to be a woman. And despite the blowback from misguided politicians, leftover chauvinists, and hypermasculine misogynists, women are closer to gaining equality than ever before. The journey ahead is bound to be epic, and it will affect everything — our wallets, our jobs, our very future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy now? How come the power shift didn’t happen during the first wave of the women’s movement (1848–1920), when the suffragettes struggled to get the vote? Or the second wave (1963–80), when women “put all our faith in the pill” and attended consciousness-raising sessions that discussed the oppression of women and demanded change in the status of women? Or even the third wave (1992–2010), which began after the American lawyer and academic Anita Hill was called to testify at the televised confirmation hearing of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, whom she had accused of sexual harassment, thus challenging his fitness for the position? Hill was then excoriated by the all-male Judiciary Committee, who didn’t believe her, and Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court. The fallout became a watershed moment in American politics and a turning point in raising awareness of sexual harassment. But still the long-term status of women was mostly unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow with the fourth wave, a movement that began in 2012 when social media took off, there’s a focus on intersectionality, a push for greater empowerment of traditionally marginalized groups — Indigenous people, people of colour; LGBTQ; ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities; people with physical and developmental disabilities; people of differing social classes — and for greater representation in politics and business. Fourth-wave feminists argue that society will be more equitable if policies and practices incorporate the perspectives of all people. While earlier feminists fought to shake off the ties that bound them to subservience, this new wave calls for justice against discrimination, assault, harassment, and it calls for equal pay and individual choices over our own bodies. Words like “cisgender,” “non-binary,” and “polyamorous” reflect the new vocabulary of a changing, more diverse society, and the clarion call for inclusion is being heard around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wave created hashtag feminism and put abusive powerful men on notice. And by all accounts, this one got liftoff. The symbiotic relationship between social media and individualism is likely driving the bus for change. The internet is all about “instant.” Twitter and Facebook can elevate people and create extreme celebrity and propel movements. Some of these, like #MeToo and #TimesUp, have been amplified by attention from influential entities such as the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and the Hollywood film industry, but others have been simmering over the last decade. As a journalist, I have watched human rights and the rights of women and girls become the focus of conversation, whether in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo or the savannah in Kenya, in the deserts of Afghanistan or the college campuses in North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have always depended on political will to change up the agenda — the stroke of the politician’s pen to install the stop sign or build the shelter or legislate a new law. It often took public will — marches and petitions — to push the politician to make change happen. But in the last few years, I’m seeing what I call personal will as the driving force behind both public and political will. Malala Yousafzai is a good example. She was fifteen years old, living in the Swat Valley in Pakistan; she wanted to go to school to learn to think for herself. But the Taliban, who claim they act in the name of God, forbade education for girls. She defied the cowardly thugs by speaking out publicly on girls’ rights to an education. On October 8, 2012, she climbed onto the school bus. The last words she heard were: “Which one is Malala?” The Taliban gunman shot that child in the head for going to school. But Malala recovered, and then she started a movement. Today everyone knows her. She’s become the world’s daughter, not because a politician in the Swat Valley insisted that the girls go to school; not because there were marches and petitions demanding education for girls. It was personal will that propelled Malala.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other telling side to this episode is that atrocities like this happen every day. But this time the world grabbed on to the story and didn’t let it go. I believe it was more evidence of liftoff, of the changing status of women; proof that people realize that dismissing half the world’s population is dangerous and expensive and wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe holy grail for the social innovators of the twenty-first century is knowing how campaigns such as #MeToo and the rise in personal power can be sustained. Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms, authors of \u003cem\u003eNew Power\u003c\/em\u003e, think they know the formula. They call it the difference between old power and new power. “Old power works \u003cem\u003elike a currency\u003c\/em\u003e,” they say. “It is held by few. Once gained it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads, and it captures.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs for new power, as exemplified by the #MeToo movement, it operates “\u003cem\u003elike a current\u003c\/em\u003e. It is made by many. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It uploads, and it distributes. Like water or electricity, it’s most forceful when it surges. The goal with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it.” Their conclusion is that #MeToo gave a sense of power to the participants, and that each individual story was strengthened by the surge of the much larger current.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday that empowerment is taking on everything from date rape to old lingering mores that cling to the lives of women the way barnacles attach to ships, slowing them down, denying their fair passage. It is also fuelling change — enormous, life-altering change.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-09-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.","Subtitle":"The Longest Revolution","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
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Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls.
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Second Words
Reissued in a handsome A List edition, the largest collection of critical prose to date from world renowned author and poet Margaret Atwood.
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{"id":6582759686203,"title":"Serafim and Claire","handle":"serafim-and-claire","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom one of Canada’s brightest emerging writers comes an unforgettable tale of love, art, and life. Set in the vividly imagined streets of 1920s Montreal, \u003cem\u003eSerafim and Claire\u003c\/em\u003e is the beautiful, moving, and compulsively readable story of two dreamers whose worlds become forever connected.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eClaire Audette is a dancer whose reputation in the vaudeville houses of 1920s Montreal is rapidly on the rise. Serafim Vieria is a photographer and lonely immigrant, wandering the streets of the same city haunted by memories of a lost love in his native Portugal. Around them, the Twenties are roaring, and the metropolis is simmering: corrupt politicians, the burgeoning of jazz, the emerging suffragette movement, trouble in the Red Light, fascism in the Italian community, with the English\/French divide cleaving through it all. 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Serafim and Claire
A beautiful and compulsively readable story of two dreamers whose worlds become forever connected, set in the streets of 1920s Montreal.
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{"id":6582760767547,"title":"Shrewed","handle":"shrewed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it’s the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan’s playground?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are some of the questions that bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Elizabeth Renzetti examines in her new collection of original essays. Drawing upon her decades of reporting on feminist issues, \u003ci\u003eShrewed\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about feminism’s crossroads. 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Shrewed
An intelligent and insightful collection of essays on women and feminism from bestselling author and Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti.
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The hope that sees women, both tattered and changed by the work of male violence and power, not at a loss for agency or warmth. In the end, Coles’s powerful novel is a tale of resilience.” — \u003cem\u003eRabble.ca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“No mistake, Megan Gail Coles is a driven, consequential writer who plays for keeps. Her seemingly off-the-cuff voice is controlled and quite intricate, and commands revisiting. \u003cem\u003eSmall Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club \u003c\/em\u003eis as important a novel as any that’s hit Canadian literature in years.” — Joel Thomas Hynes, author of \u003cem\u003eWe’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Each character is rendered with such stunning details and unflinching insights that you can’t leave this novel’s pages without being changed. 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A scattered taxi slogs by carrying fiendish-looking passengers who attempt to discreetly smoke from barely cracked windows. Discretion is a skill they have fallen out with but they don’t know that yet. They still fancy themselves stealth, piling four parka-plied humans into a single toilet stall, scarves dangling beneath the door, telling tails on them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume control is a thing of delusion in the confined spaces they inhabit. It will be years before this is fully realized by those who escape the scene or are thrown into adulthood by overdose or pregnancy. These lucky few will feel overwhelmingly, retroactively embarrassed by their one-time rock star fantasies. Olive can hear them bawling about their supposed betrayals as clouds of tobacco smoke and slurry syllables updraft skyward through the slightly parted window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Olive forgives them their make-believe follies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are no better or worse than most of the half well-off, half grown-up humans she has met. They are just flawed and vulnerable to the pitch. Olive is no different. She has chased the white dragon into smoky rooms where grad students complained about unkindly thesis feedback while wearing thousand dollar watches. A holiday-tanned winter wrist, a baggie held aloft, another Volvo fob serving key bumps round the ring. Under such circumstances, Olive is for the most part silent. She can pass for one of them until she releases language into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlive often holds her rural tongue for fear of being found out. She is not a card-carrying member of the townie majority. And rarely are there other fugitive faces for Olive to hide behind on nights when she wants to get on the go. There was a Mexican painter once. A Russian musician. There was the one Pakistani fellow whose name Olive could never recall. She did not think it was unpronounceable, she just could not pronounce it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are lots of words still beyond her reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Olive can think of no words to describe the pain felt where her pants nearly meet her feet. She winces and tucks her chin farther inside her coat. She tries to push her neck back to save from catching skin in the zipper. She sniffs back hard and swallows a slippery lob. Her grandmother would not approve of hoarding mucus in the body but her grandmother would not approve of much of what she does lately. 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They are not twenty-five. They are not even thirty-five and feel as such. Most internally promise to stay home with the kids next weekend as they turn their faces to or from the sunshine depending on the quantity of painkillers ingested in the car. This temporary commitment to sobriety is bookended by revolving party systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome relish vitamin D while others resent it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe division will not last long, though, as the sun already has started to duck back inside the nimbostratus. It will storm again today as surely as the nearly forty will go out again in four days’ time. The babysitter will be called. The cat will be let in. They will flee their houses for a little look around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet the stink of house off ya.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey will reliably cloak this smell of domestication in alcohol and nicotine and self-loathing until Monday. Mondays are for quitting everything. Again. Except when it storms on Monday. Then quitting everything is pushed to Tuesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday is such a Tuesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe weekend warriors refuse to sell out and so have fully bought in pound for pound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlive is just the same. She too had been sold the notion of party drugs as lazy fun and then fast gobbled them hand over fist. Swallow, snort, smoke; ingestion is an irrelevant matter of personal preference and ease. There is no wall to wall them out. Or in. Drug trends are trendingalong regardless of national media reports daily updating all on their progress east and upward. Olive has watched the same scenes play out on repeat in dark corners of the late night since arriving in Sin Jawns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they’ve gone and stashed the kits everywhere to protect against the siren call. A first line of defence kept behind wine bars. Under the bathroom sink. In purses. And Olive knows she must address the long list of reasons why self-medicare is needed to comfort her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEventually. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel exposes class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.","PrizeCode_0":"Nominated","PrizeCode_1":"Nominated","PrizeCode_2":"Winner","PrizeName_0":"07","PrizeName_1":"07","PrizeName_2":"01","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-02-12","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel exposes class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel exposes class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.
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But never does she shy away from the dark undercurrents of her characters’ lives. \u003cem\u003eSomething for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e is an important book by a major talent working at the height of her considerable powers, an author who isn’t afraid to stretch the boundaries of her art and who pursues her singular aesthetic vision in an uncompromising and wildly entertaining manner.” — Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Unexpected events, memorable characters, and a reverence for struggling make this collection anything but ordinary.” — \u003cem\u003ePique Newsmagazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Lisa Moore brings a particular wizardry to whatever she touches, but her command of the short story is such that when she bends its rules, we look at old ideas in new ways … The stories in \u003cem\u003eSomething for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e are like prizes in pass-the-parcel. They tie up neatly, but they’re loose enough so that when you move the package, the corner edge tears, and the wrapping opens up like a hole in a pair of nylons, and you realize there are a lot more layers underneath that need to be peeled back and teased apart.” — \u003cem\u003eOvercast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Moore takes her characters to some undeniably dark places in these stories, though the book is never entirely devoid of humour or hope. And there is abiding joy in the prose, which is lithe and tensile in equal measure. There is astonishment here, and grit, and beauty that is close to breathtaking.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“[A] testimony to her absolute mastery of technique … Without question, Moore is a writer of great social conscience and compassion.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In Moore’s most diverse and powerful collection yet, each story has a role to play in highlighting the most fascinating hidden aspects of our everyday lives.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR LISA MOORE AND \u003cem\u003eCAUGHT\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2013\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award\u003cbr \/\u003eA Quill \u0026 Quire Book of the Year\u003cbr \/\u003eA Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2013\u003cbr \/\u003eAn Amazon.ca Best Books: Editors' Pick of 2013\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Precise, compressed, intimately rhythmic, mesmerizingly smart.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In the creation of David Slaney, Lisa Moore brings us an unforgettable character, embodying the exuberance and energy of misspent youth. \u003cem\u003eCaught\u003c\/em\u003e is a propulsive and harrowing read.” — Patrick deWitt, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sisters Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“[Lisa Moore’s] written a new kind of legend for a new Newfoundland.” — \u003cem\u003eReader’s Digest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCaught\u003c\/em\u003e is an outstanding novel, combining the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e“Lisa Moore’s new book is a beautiful piece of writing.” — \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e“This novel that is rife with realness, and beauty, and tension; so much it hurts, in the best possible way.” — \u003cem\u003eNewfoundland Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e“Moore’s prose is as vivid as ever.” — \u003cem\u003eNOW Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCaught\u003c\/em\u003e proceeds like a lit fuse.” — \u003cem\u003eGeorgia Straight\u003c\/em\u003e“As trippy, mellow, and revelatory as Hearn’s weed, Caught takes pleasure from rewriting crime formulas and gives pleasure in doing so.” — \u003cem\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR LISA MOORE AND \u003cem\u003eFEBRUARY\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, CBC Canada Reads 2013\u003cbr \/\u003eLonglist, Man Booker Prize\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Winterset Award\u003cbr \/\u003eThe New Yorker Best Books of the Year\u003cbr \/\u003eA Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year\u003cbr \/\u003eA Quill \u0026 Quire Book of the Year\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Loneliness is hard to write about without become maudlin or cliched. But Moore never errs on the side of sentimentality … There’s an economy in Moore’s style that shows us how a once vibrant life can be whittled down by pain and loneliness. But, by grounding her writing in the physical world, Moore shows how life’s everyday tasks and encounters create a comforting continuity that allows forward movement.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Exquisitely mindful … All is suffering, certainly, but it’s just as true that all is also pretty funny. Moore gets this. She gets life … Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very consciousness of her characters. In this way, she does more than make us feel for them. She makes us feel what they feel, which is the point of literature and maybe even the point of being human.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Lisa Moore’s work is passionate, gritty, lucid, and beautiful. She has a great gift.” — Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize–winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Gathering\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Lisa Moore is an astonishing writer. She brings to her pages what we are always seeking in fiction and only find the best of it: a magnetizing gift for revealing how the earth feels, looks, tastes, smells, and an unswerving instinct for what’s important in life.” — Richard Ford, author of \u003cem\u003eCanada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Moore deftly weaves together the present … and the past, evoking memory and grief in pitch-perfect detail.” — \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“It has been a joy indeed to discover Lisa Moore. Despite her great success with a previous novel and two collections of short fiction, \u003cem\u003eFebruary\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book I have read by this talented Canadian writer. I shall soon be reading the rest.” — \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eFebruary\u003c\/em\u003e] is what great prose should be … a work of art … a moving narrative of risk, love, loss, and surviving” — \u003cem\u003eNewfoundland Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This mesmerizing book is full of tears, and is a graceful meditation on how to survive life’s losses.” — \u003cem\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Soaring.” — \u003cem\u003eChatelaine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“[Moore] expertly captures her characters’ physical surroundings in sharp-edged fragments of colour and sensation … Helen comes across as a perfectly ordinary woman … But that’s what [\u003cem\u003eFebruary\u003c\/em\u003e] is about: a perfectly ordinary woman whose life is profoundly changed by an extraordinary event. This is a marvellous book.” — \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Moore pens another triumph … emotional tension, coupled with an acute eye for regional setting and dialect, has long been a hallmark of Moore’s work … the hauntingly beautiful February, is likely to turn some heads and hearts as well.”— \u003cem\u003eChronicle Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Moore never errs on the side of sentimentality … Loneliness is hard to write about without becoming maudlin or cliched. But Moore seems to understand this very human facility, describing the unconscious ways we sometimes try to avoid feeling overwhelmed by it … Moore shows how life’s everyday tasks and encounters create a comforting continuity that eventually wears down emotional pain to allow forward movement … You’ll be surprised at this novel’s ability to uplift.” — \u003cem\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Moore … is one of the smartest, sharpest minds among Canada’s younger fiction writers, and she deftly averts the saccharine and hyperbolic in this, her second novel.” — \u003cem\u003eMatrix Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“There is no one else in the country who can touch Lisa Moore’s elegant rendering of language … She’s distinctive, and what she does with language is nothing less than dazzling, and then there is her uncanny ability to inhabit every pore and sinew of her endearingly human characters … What she does with language is pure art.” — \u003cem\u003eSalty Ink\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Complex yet clear, compelling and profound, the style is a joy to read and Lisa Moore’s story-spinning gift is great. Her people become our people, her richly described settings our own.” — \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Canadian writer Lisa Moore’s second novel solidifies her reputation as a gifted writer whose prose exhibits an urgency, precision, and sensitivity worthy of the legacy of Virginia Woolf.” — \u003cem\u003eThe World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Moore, whose previous novel, \u003cem\u003eAlligator\u003c\/em\u003e, won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, renders sensations with the precision of a Vermeer.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Moore has established with her second novel a distinctive voice in Canadian literature. Language in Moore’s capable hands is often deceptively spare, revealing for the careful reader layers of acute insight. Her writing in \u003cem\u003eFebruary\u003c\/em\u003e is characterized by a raw, stream-of-consciousness intensity.” — \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR LISA MOORE AND \u003cem\u003eALLIGATOR\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, Commonwealth Fiction Prize (Canada and the Caribbean)\u003cbr \/\u003eWinner, ReLit Award\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Scotiabank Giller Prize\u003cbr \/\u003eFinalist, Bennington Gate Fiction Award\u003cbr \/\u003eLonglist, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\u003cbr \/\u003eLonglist, Orange Broadband Award\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Bold, vivid, imagistic, resonant … Moore’s joy at being alive and living among her people and getting them down as honestly as she can is irrepressible.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Superb … While the number of seemingly disparate plots is initially confusing, paths cross in unexpected, satisfying ways.” — \u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Compelling and rewarding … surprisingly emotional, rich with human feeling and insight. Moore has a keen ear for both dialogue and a well-turned phrase, and the writing is suffused with a reckless joy.” — \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Alligator is full of visual detail, abrupt cuts, and startling juxtapositions. 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. Fittingly, the novel achieves just what Madeleine proposes her documentaries offer: an unexpected story, a strong message, at least one belly laugh.” — \u003cem\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR LISA MOORE AND \u003cem\u003eOPEN\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Lisa Moore writes like a dream. This is a marvellous collection … A truly original voice.” — Michael Redhill, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mai\u003c\/em\u003el\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Moore’s talent is staggering, her images arresting, her dialogue, particularly between men and women, needle-to-the-eye sharp.” — \u003cem\u003eMaclean’s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“[Moore’s] stories are full of nerve and verve. They brim with an irresistible mix of adrenaline, compassion, and insight … Perceptive and wonderful.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eOrlando, Florida. I’m here with a conference of twenty thousand librarians from all over North America, two weeks after the Pulse massacre. It’s very early; I’m jogging around two big, olive-coloured ponds and not a breath of wind, an empty eight-lane highway between the ponds and I’m on the median.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lizard skitters over the curb and across the highway. It goes in fast-forward but there are glitches. Stops. Goes, stops. Darts. A jellied quivering. The long thin body is still, but the legs. You can’t even see the legs in the bald light. Just a blur of motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are squiggles of fluorescent spray-paint here and there on the sidewalk in pink, orange, and lime. They’re construction directives, targets for jackhammers, indicating the location of water or sewage pipes beneath the concrete, positions for embedded spigots, underground tunnels for workers and who knows what else — bog people, muskets, cannonballs, arrowheads. I took two planes to get here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrlando was retrieved from the swamp by a wily entrepreneur who set up dummy companies to purchase the land cheap. A hundred thousand people work in the theme parks here, vomiting in their oversized cartoon-costume heads because you aren’t allowed to vomit in a theme park. It’s hot in those cartoon heads. You aren’t even allowed to die of heat prostration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople who die on the parks’ premises are secreted away, whisked from the grounds in unmarked cars and why not? Why not have a zone that death can’t in infiltrate? It costs fabulously to squeeze into these crowds, to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course you offer life without death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou offer furry animals that speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I’m coming around the second pond the sprayers come on and shuffle out sheets of recollected water, the sign says. Water that I don’t want to touch my bare skin because who knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s not true that the wily entrepreneur is cryogenically preserved. That’s an urban legend. People say just his head in a murky aquarium: mouth open, the lower lip looking grey and nibbled, deteriorating despite the formaldehyde, like he’s developed a cold sore, and a five o’clock shadow, because hair still grows in death. Sometimes the head burps and a wobbling bubble escapes a corner of the mouth. A fold-encrusted eyelid utters. But that is just the underwater air infiltration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis place is where the GoFundMe stage-four cancer children come to fulfill a bucket list. The parks around here specialize in reconstituting hearts — break ’em, put ’em back together. The white beluga in the aquarium will do it for you, all by itself. Defibrillate your soul. The ghostly mammal emerges from the murk, tail dragging because of a low-grade fugue.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-09-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Something for Everyone
Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.
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Swimming Lessons
A woman disappears without a trace. Twelve years later, her adult daughter starts finding answers hidden in the books that her mother left behind.
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{"id":6582765322299,"title":"That Tiny Life","handle":"that-tiny-life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn settings that range from the old American West to pre-revolutionary France, from a present-day dig site in the high tablelands of South America to deep space, \u003ci\u003eThat Tiny Life \u003c\/i\u003eis a wide-ranging and utterly original collection of short fiction and a novella that examines the idea of progress — humanity’s never-ending cycle of creation and destruction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the award-winning story, “Valley Floor,” a surgeon performs an amputation in the open desert in the American West. In “Da Capo al Fine,” set in eighteenth-century France, the creator of the fortepiano designs another, more brutal instrument. And in “That Tiny Life,” the reader gets a glimpse into a future in which human resource extraction goes far beyond Earth. 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They all demand to be looked at under the microscope of Fisher’s penetrating and irresistible prose. And when examined, the meaning is so stunning, you are enraptured by the grand themes tackled in each story. The juxtaposition of small and large, nature and science, cowboys and space travellers renders the reading experience of this book startling and exhilarating, making you rejoice in the perplex mystery of your own tiny life.” — Danuta Gleed Literary Award Jury Citation\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Fisher’s writing is cinematic in scope, coupled with a rare talent for restraint that leaves you wholly satisfied yet yearning for more at every story’s conclusion.” — \u003cem\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Imagery that would make a poet jealous, characters rich enough to sustain entire novels, and dialogue that communicates a lot in few words … \u003cem\u003eThat Tiny Life\u003c\/em\u003e is gorgeous.” —\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Every time I opened this book I expected to find clumps of feather or rabbit fur or grit from one of Saturn’s moons. 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An extraordinary debut.” — Steven Price, author of \u003cem\u003eBy Gaslight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The book certainly represents a significant new talent in Canadian fiction.” — \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Grim and riveting, Erin Frances Fisher’s stylistic virtuosity in these six dexterously crafted tales is by turns macabre and blackly funny. Characters search for absolution, miss, struggle for, and sometimes make their connections. We root for their negotiations of the morbid topography of change. The harshness and magnificence of \u003cem\u003eThat Tiny Life\u003c\/em\u003e is seen through a lens intensely magnified by the brevity and transience of existence. Anyone interested in the human condition will appreciate this book.” — Yasuko Thanh, author of \u003cem\u003eMysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Readers of this extraordinary collection will be taken by the scope and range of the stories. By the precision of craft and visceral detail. The true inhabiting of bodies, in the characters, the creatures, and also in the natural world as a body beyond. But what truly separates Fisher’s prose is the heart, the blood, the guts, the all of it, that drive this book, as a body. It seems so distinct in parts, but runs together with a singular, unifying force that very few writers could muster. It is a collection that thrums with that undeniable heart and energy, no matter where the stories land or lead.” — Kevin Hardcastle, author of \u003cem\u003eIn the Cage\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom “Valley Floor”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sawbones squats, his satchel by his knees, his back to the cart and the mules and their feedbags. He runs his forefinger along the tourniquet around Roy’s leg, rubs the pus between his fingertips and thumb, sniffs the lot, and says he’s taking Roy’s leg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Like shit you are,” I say. “What’s he left with it gone?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sawbones pushes his specs up his disjointed nose and says that if he leaves the leg attached, Roy’ll be gone. Roy’s girl, just three, explores her mouth with her fingers. Her eyes big and gold as coins. She squats in the dirt in front of some thorny shrubs, a whelp in piss-stained trousers, the night growing fathomless above the hills behind her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGirl’s new with us. Roy fetched her from the mother less than a week back. Don’t know why he picked her up when he did, since, one, he knew the child’s age from the letter, and two, he already had that crushed toe sending stripes up his foot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sawbones’ specs shine flat-lensed in the light from the firepit. I suspect they don’t so much alter his vision as give him a look. He bends over Roy, who’s laid flaccid under the cactus. Roy’s hair and skin and clothes are tacky with basin dust. The firelight blinks over his silhouette, pretties his discoloured leg and cracked lips. His cocky flip of curls thrown back from his ridged nose and cheeks and spread over the dirt. His eyes closed. Been passed out a while. I grab his good foot and jostle and release.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Might go anyway,” I say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sawbones rocks on his haunches, eyeing the mule I promised him for the trip. One of a pair. Sorrel, sturdy—three hands short of draft—and recently acquired, though Roy and I have been hauling supplies through the valley good on seven years. That’s seven years of spiny fruit and sunburn while carting basics to men batshit enough to have settled this particular desolation. Brutes searching gold, coal, oil midst the saltbush and boulders. The work gives Roy and me a nice, healthful pay, but only because not many want the job. Heat’s hard on the mules and water takes up half the wagon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe girl pulls her fingers from her mouth and wipes them across her shirt. Sawbones removes his specs, holds the lenses to the light, then plucks his hanky from his coat and polishes. His kerchief’s done-up old style—stitched around the trim with cream dashes—same era as the jacket, which has buttons top to bottom, but hangs wide open. Plush fabric, carpet-like, worn thin down the back. Like he’s spent his life sitting. He settles his specs back on that crooked nose and loops the wires around his ears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoy, flat-out, chest hardly lifting each breath. I put a hand on my lips and jaw. All the grit there, in the lines and loose skin—the valley sucks away fat. Seems to have aged twenty years though it’s only been those seven, and we were both young men when we acquired the route. He and I been partners too long now to know who owes who—though I suspect at this moment it’s him who owes me. We have a friendship. Which is why I said nothing when Roy kept the girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI recline against the wagon and set a knuckle to the forehead of the nearest mule, and the mule leans into it. Soft-nosed beast. “Take the leg then,” I say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSawbones opens his satchel and reaches out a pan, a leather roll, and a hard-cased cautery set. Kicks the logs and exposes the coals and balances the pan. Unsnaps the cautery case and sets the long-handled irons into the fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Water,” he says.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI uncap a jug and fill the pan. The sawbones fiddles with the knot and unrolls the leather wrap. Tools inside flash blade to spine: tongs, scissors, various knives. He thumbs the clasp on a worn medical bag. Vials strapped to the underside of the lid. The interior’s full of glass flasks and spools of silk and gauze. He tips a vial of iodine into the pan, then opens a jar of alcohol. Wipes down each blade with a soaked bit of cotton and sets the equipment ready on top the leather sheath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSawbones removes and folds his coat and lays it on the bow of the wagon. He steps to Roy’s side and snips the torn pant leg. Twice the normal size below the knee, and two of the black toes sport open sores.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lift.” Sawbones waves at the foot. I lift. He slides a sheet of oilskin under the thigh. “Down.” He and I loop rope around Roy’s wrists and good ankle, then tie the rope onto stakes and pound the stakes into the dirt. Sawbones pulls a cotton swab from the bag and wipes Roy’s leg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“That high,” I say. “Christ almighty.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sit on him.” Sawbones tests the tourniquet already around Roy’s upper thigh. I take my spot kneeling on Roy’s shoulders, and the girl comes up beside me. Kid’s already kicked off and lost her shoes and stands barefoot in the cooling sand. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Turn round,” I say, and when she won’t, I grab her. Press her face into my chest.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"Grim and riveting, Erin Frances Fisher’s stylistic virtuosity in these six dexterously crafted tales is by turns macabre and blackly funny. Characters search for absolution, miss, struggle for, and sometimes make their connections. We root for their negotiations of the morbid topography of change. The harshness and magnificence of That Tiny Life is seen through a lens intensely magnified by the brevity and transience of existence. 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That Tiny Life
An utterly original collection of short fiction that examines the idea of progress — humanity’s never-ending cycle of creation and destruction.
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It's a compelling exploration of the ways a crime implicates all of us.” — Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of \u003cem\u003eWe Love You, Charlie Freeman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Whittall places the reader right at the centre of their pain. It’s the best depiction of female suffering I’ve read since Jane Smiley eloquently tackled sexual abuse in A Thousand Acres.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e“Nuanced to the end, Whittall’s novel achieves something that’s rare in real-life cases of sexual violence. She gives a voice to the ones we never hear from: those who are collateral damage.” — \u003cem\u003eChatelaine\u003c\/em\u003e“Toronto author Zoe Whittall’s new novel The Best Kind of People is the best kind of book — it’s got a compelling story, characters readers will recognize and come to love, and writing that makes it effortless to turn page after page.” — \u003cem\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Fast-paced … but never melodramatic.” — \u003cem\u003eMaclean’s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Exquisitely emotional.” — \u003cem\u003eOwen Sound Sun Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“An astounding portrait of a character by omission.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Whittall raises her game dramatically in this Giller-shortlisted novel.” — \u003cem\u003eNOW Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“A story like this never ends… . A humane, clear eyed attempt to explore the ripple effects of sexual crime.” — \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eTHE MIDDLE GROUND\u003c\/em\u003e (2010)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Whittall’s prose demonstrates vitality and humour as she includes the minutiae of daily life among the bizarre events in Missy's adventure … An entertaining read. Recommended.” — \u003cem\u003eCM Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eHOLDING STILL AS LONG AS POSSIBLE\u003c\/em\u003e (2009):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eLAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS: TRANSGENDER FICTION WINNER\u003cbr\/\u003eAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION STONEWALL HONOUR BOOK\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“With Holding Still, Whittall has established herself as a writer of immense vitality and courage; she stands as the voice of a lost, but thanks to her not forgotten, generation: the boys and girls who will inherit the earth.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“An unforgettable depiction of growing up in the new millennium.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eHolding Still for as Long as Possible\u003c\/em\u003e, the awareness of mortality intersects with the romantic restlessness of youth. 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It’s the best depiction of female suffering I’ve read since Jane Smiley eloquently tackled sexual abuse in A Thousand Acres.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_1":"With incredibly rare nuance, sensitivity, and insight, Zoe Whittall takes us deep into our contemporary conversation around sexual violence and shines a vital spotlight on the individuals and communities that live in its long shadow. Whittall’s undisputed talent as a writer shines, as does her understanding into the complexity of our sympathies, our morality, and our humanity. With The Best Kind of People, Whittall has created an urgent and timely document, one that asks us to reflect on how we can best serve survivors of abuse and best support all of those who exist in its aftermath. With incredible empathy, and undeniable skill, this book is sure to spark much needed dialogue, vital debate, and richly deserved acclaim.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_2":"The Best Kind of People is all-of-a-piece and well worth the read not only for what it adds to the conversation about accusation and rape, but also for the pleasure it offers to those who like a good story.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_3":"The Best Kind of People examines the effects of rape culture on an entire community with rare nuance and insight. Every character is fully rounded, flawed, and achingly human. It puts me in mind of a twenty-first-century Ordinary People — which, for the record, is one of my favourite novels.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_4":"Fast-paced . . . but never melodramatic.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_5":"Toronto author Zoe Whittall’s new novel The Best Kind of People is the best kind of book — it’s got a compelling story characters readers will recognize and come to love and writing that makes it effortless to turn page after page.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_6":"Exquisitely emotional","OtherText_Quote_from_review_7":"The jury found Zoe Whittall’s The Best Kind of People urgent and timely, nuanced and brave. This gripping story challenges how we hear women and girls, and dissects the self-hypnosis and fear that prevent us from speaking disruptive truth. With subversive precision and solid veracity, Whittall calls into question pervasive forms of silence and acquiescence.","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From award-winning author Zoe Whittall comes The Best Kind of People, a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family.","PrizeCode_0":"Short-listed","PrizeName_0":"04","PrizeYear_0":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2016-08-27","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"From award-winning author Zoe Whittall comes The Best Kind of People, a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family."}
The Best Kind of People
From award-winning author Zoe Whittall comes The Best Kind of People, a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family.
