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Kiss the Undertow
The disturbing story of a swimmer navigating the abuse of her body and mind as she trains for competition, exploring the nature of power and will.
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{"id":7014714736699,"title":"Kukum","handle":"kukum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, Governor General's Literary Award in the Translation Category\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKukum\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the story of Almanda Siméon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love with a young Innu man despite their cultural differences and goes on to share her life with the Pekuakami Innu community. They accept her as one of their own: Almanda learns their language, how to live a nomadic existence, and begins to break down the barriers imposed on Indigenous women. Unfolding over the course of a century, the novel details the end of traditional ways of life for the Innu, as Almanda and her family face the loss of their land and confinement to reserves, and the enduring violence of residential schools. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKukum\u003c\/em\u003e intimately expresses the importance of Innu ancestral values and the need for freedom nomadic peoples feel to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-10-14T10:30:34-04:00","created_at":"2022-10-13T16:53:18-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult New Releases","Arachnide Editions","By (author) Jean Michel","Feminist Reads","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2023-07-11","Translated by Ouriou Susan"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40874728325179,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010904","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Kukum - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":272,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010904","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40874728423483,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010911","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Kukum - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010911","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0a3cd394-3b6c-4700-b352-bde1cfce0686.jpg?v=1699509747"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0a3cd394-3b6c-4700-b352-bde1cfce0686.jpg?v=1699509747","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23947067949115,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0a3cd394-3b6c-4700-b352-bde1cfce0686.jpg?v=1699509747"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0a3cd394-3b6c-4700-b352-bde1cfce0686.jpg?v=1699509747","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, Governor General's Literary Award in the Translation Category\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKukum\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the story of Almanda Siméon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love with a young Innu man despite their cultural differences and goes on to share her life with the Pekuakami Innu community. They accept her as one of their own: Almanda learns their language, how to live a nomadic existence, and begins to break down the barriers imposed on Indigenous women. Unfolding over the course of a century, the novel details the end of traditional ways of life for the Innu, as Almanda and her family face the loss of their land and confinement to reserves, and the enduring violence of residential schools. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKukum\u003c\/em\u003e intimately expresses the importance of Innu ancestral values and the need for freedom nomadic peoples feel to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Kukum
A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community.
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Little Crosses
A daughter examines her complicated relationship with a charismatic, narcissistic mother who now lives with alcohol-related dementia.
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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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It’s worth asking: Why do we keep playing a game we were never meant to win?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning journalist and author of \u003ci\u003eF-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e, Lauren McKeon examines the many ways in which our institutions are designed to keep women and other marginalized genders at a disadvantage. In doing so, she reveals why we need more than parity, visible diversity, and lone female CEOs to change this power game. She talks to people doing power differently in a variety of sectors and uncovers new models of power. 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Women today remain a surprisingly, depressingly long way from gender and racial equality. It’s worth asking: Why do we keep playing a game we were never meant to win?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning journalist and author of \u003ci\u003eF-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e, Lauren McKeon examines the many ways in which our institutions are designed to keep women and other marginalized genders at a disadvantage. In doing so, she reveals why we need more than parity, visible diversity, and lone female CEOs to change this power game. She talks to people doing power differently in a variety of sectors and uncovers new models of power. And as the toxic, divisive, and hyper-masculine style of leadership gains ground, she underscores why it’s time to stop playing by the rules of a rigged game. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Not the kind of power that requires a token change at the top, but a radical overhauling of social structures to create a more progressive and inclusive society. There is much power to be found in her wise, eye-opening book.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Elizabeth Renzetti","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Lauren McKeon has long cemented herself as a writer whose insights are biting, effective, and necessary. And unsurprisingly, No More Nice Girls is no different. In this book, her work is meticulously researched and brilliantly argued, and she’s not afraid to confront us with information and perspectives that are as uncomfortable as they are true (see: very). That said, McKeon’s ability to engage with instead of dictating to 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 actually listen). She’s patient but forceful in offering her many (many) facts. I’ve never liked the word nice, and liked the idea of aspiring to be nice even less. Thankfully, McKeon makes nice 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.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Anne","OtherText_Accolades_2":"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.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Stacey May Fowles","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMELY SUBJECT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThere’s a huge market for books on feminist literature and ongoing attention to women’s issues in popular media. \u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e picks up where her 2017 book,\u003cem\u003e F-Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, left off.\u003cem\u003e F-Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e looked at the supposed demise of the feminist movement, while this book reimagines the very concept of power itself. Perfect for fans of feminist nonfiction by Gemma Hartley, Soraya Chemaly, Robyn Doolittle.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUTHOR’S INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH AND STYLE:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMcKeon’s intersectional approach led her to many interviews with people whose experiences with power is more layered than her own, including people of all genders, Native American women, women of colour, women with disabilities, and those who are LGBTQ+. She practices what she preaches: all interview subjects are referred to by their chosen pronouns and none are described by their physical appearances unless that is relevant to the discussion of power or a man would be physically described in the same situation. Her nuanced and intentional writing is also fun to read. Having developed her writing for online audiences as well as for readers of long-form print journalism, McKeon’s prose style — sharp, honest, and entertaining — is persuasive, and will appeal especially to readers in their twenties, thirties, and forties.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMED TO COINCIDE WITH TWO SIGNIFICANT DATES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe will publish the book on March 3, 2020, to coincide with International Women’s Day on March 8. Also worth noting is that in 2020, it will be twenty-five years since the Beijing Platform for Action, a visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls which came out of the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing. The anniversary of the Beijing Platform, and how much progress has or has not been made over the last twenty-five years, will be much discussed in the media. McKeon is very well connected in the media, and we will work with her to effectively market and promote the book to women’s long-lead magazines and national literary media (magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, podcasts, blogs) in addition to her spotlight in \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARD-WINNING AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLauren McKeon’s long-form writing has won her several Canadian National Magazine Awards. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eF-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism\u003c\/em\u003e (Goose Lane, 2017), was nominated for Rakuten Kobo’s Emerging Writer Prize. She contributed a chapter to the book \u003cem\u003eWhatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault\u003c\/em\u003e. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College and has taught long-form writing at Humber College. She was the editor of Canada’s progressive, independent \u003cem\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e from 2011 to 2016, where she helmed one of the bestselling issues in recent years, “Why Canada Needs More Feminism.” She writes for \u003cem\u003eHazlitt\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFlare\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReader’s Digest\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eKit\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the digital editor at \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE PRESTIGE AND SUCCESS OF THE WALRUS BOOKS IMPRINT:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe inaugural publication of Walrus Books, \u003cem\u003eBig Lonely Doug\u003c\/em\u003e, sold well and earned wide media coverage and prize attention. Lauren McKeon’s book follows Harley Rustad’s as a fine product of the same strong partnership between \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, the Chawkers Foundation, and House of Anansi Press. The Walrus Books imprint publishes strong, rigorous works of narrative nonfiction that reflect the excellence of both \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e and Anansi brands.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\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_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[Lauren McKeon’s] vital, keenly insightful work is a must-read.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"McKeon uses plain language and an army of external sources to illuminate the puppet strings of power . . . No More Nice Girls avoids 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.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_2":"Through a wealth of examples of women and communities working to topple power structures in a variety of sectors, No More Nice Girls is a thoughtful, bold read that envisions a future in which women create new styles of leadership.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Rabble.ca","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eTimely … [\u003cem\u003eNo More Nice Girls\u003c\/em\u003e] will open your eyes to a better way of doing things.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"I’ve Read This","OtherText_Review_4":"\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\u003e belongs on the bookshelf alongside Susan Faludi’s Backlash, Susan Douglas’s Enlightened Sexism, Sylvia Bashevkin’s Women, Power, Politics, and Linda Trimble’s Ms. Prime Minister — 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","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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{"id":6660407492667,"title":"No Stars in the Sky","handle":"no-stars-in-the-sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Profoundly moving and beautifully written . . . each story is its own universe that transports the reader through the characters’ joy and pain.” — Amy Stuart \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe nineteen stories in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e feature strong but damaged female characters in crisis. Tormented by personal conflicts and oppressive regimes that treat the female body like a trophy of war, the women in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e face life-altering circumstances that either shatter or make them stronger, albeit at a very high price. True to her Latin American roots, Bátiz shines a light on the crises that concern her most: the plight of migrant children along the Mexico–U.S. border, the tragedy of the disappeared in Mexico and Argentina, and the generalized racial and domestic violence that has turned life into a constant struggle for survival. With an unflinching hand, Bátiz explores the breadth of the human condition to expose silent tragedies too often ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-09-27T09:39:21-04:00","created_at":"2021-09-21T10:09:18-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Bátiz Martha","Feminist Reads","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2022-05-03"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39645093101627,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010027","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"No Stars in the Sky - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":274,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010027","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39645094477883,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010034","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"No Stars in the Sky - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010034","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243508518971,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473"},"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_85346c91-6140-45a6-9153-cb6a9c6429e8.jpg?v=1655628473","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Profoundly moving and beautifully written . . . each story is its own universe that transports the reader through the characters’ joy and pain.” — Amy Stuart \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe nineteen stories in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e feature strong but damaged female characters in crisis. Tormented by personal conflicts and oppressive regimes that treat the female body like a trophy of war, the women in \u003cem\u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e face life-altering circumstances that either shatter or make them stronger, albeit at a very high price. True to her Latin American roots, Bátiz shines a light on the crises that concern her most: the plight of migrant children along the Mexico–U.S. border, the tragedy of the disappeared in Mexico and Argentina, and the generalized racial and domestic violence that has turned life into a constant struggle for survival. With an unflinching hand, Bátiz explores the breadth of the human condition to expose silent tragedies too often ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The power of these stories comes from the writer’s understanding of the politics of exploitation and her refusal to look away.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Rosemary Sullivan, author of Stalin's Daughter and The Betrayal of Anne Frank","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully written, masterfully crafted collection that explores the trauma of loss. Its vivid characters stayed with me long after I finished the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Marina Nemat, author of Prisoner of Tehran and After Tehran","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eBrimming with unforgettable characters who find themselves in unimaginable circumstances \u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e shines with brilliance and will leave you breathless. Bátiz’s prose sparkles against the dark background of heartbreaking choices and harsh realities, and lights up the senses. This book is meant to be read slowly and savoured.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Christina Kilbourne, author of Safe Harbour and The Limitless Sky","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem \u003eNo Stars in the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e, Martha Bátiz travels across countries and cultures with confidence, humour, and an ear for the musicality of language. Her stories, both beautiful and terrifying, deal with loss, depression, injustice, and the need to love and be loved. 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No Stars in the Sky
A new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz.
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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. Gaus, clean shaven in a white shirt and thick rimmed glasses, seems almost breathless as he waits for her reply.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah leans back in her armchair, studies Gaus intently, and takes a deep drag on her cigarette before she speaks. Her answer paraphrases Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I’s motto, \u003cem\u003efiat iustitia, et pereat mundus: fiat veritas, et pereat mundus\u003c\/em\u003e — let truth be done, though the world may perish. She raises her free hand and points at Gaus, as though to stress the importance of her words: “The truth must be told, regardless of the consequences of that truth.” A worthy motto for someone who put their life on the line on more than one occasion in their steadfast belief in what is true and right.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eCombines rigorous biographical research with a novelistic story of Arendt’s passion … This book should be required reading for serious scholars and anyone who wants to be immersed in an intercontinental epic romance.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"St. Louis Jewish Light","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2021-01-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt.","Subtitle":"The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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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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. 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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.
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Our Voice of Fire
A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi Morin set to transform the narrative around Indigenous Peoples.
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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.
