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As his eyes adjust to the half-light, he finds her lying in bed, eyes closed and mouth agape. In that instant he cannot tell whether she is asleep or dead. The sight of his mother's body, caught between these two possibilities, causes Jordan to plunge headlong into the uncertain depths of consciousness itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom androids to cannibals to sex clubs, an unforgettable personal odyssey emerges, populated by a cast of sublime outsiders in search for the ever-elusive nature of self. Part ontological thriller, part millennial saga, \u003ci\u003eLiminal\u003c\/i\u003e is a riotous and moving portrait of a young man in volatile times, a generation caught in suspended animation, and a son’s enduring love for his mother.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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His play \u003cem\u003eBotticelli in the Fire\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2017 Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play and is currently being adapted into a feature by filmmaker Stephen Dunn. From 2012 to 2016, in collaboration with William Ellis, Tannahill ran the alternative art space Videofag, which became an influential hub for queer and avant-garde work in Canada. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eTheatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama\u003c\/em\u003e and T\u003cem\u003ehe Videofag Book\u003c\/em\u003e; and his latest play, \u003cem\u003eDeclarations\u003c\/em\u003e, will be published to coincide with its premiere at Canadian Stage in January 2018. Tannahill’s films and multimedia performances have been presented at festivals and galleries such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Tribeca Film Festival. 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He is the youngest-ever winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. He’s been called a “zeitgeist savant” by the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, “the future of Canadian theatre” by \u003cem\u003eNow Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and “the hottest name in Canadian theatre” by the \u003cem\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHis virtual reality performance \u003cem\u003eDraw Me Close\u003c\/em\u003e, a co-production between the National Theatre (U.K.) and the National Film Board of Canada, was a collaboration with acclaimed author Teva Harrison and premiered in May 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Tannahill’s production of Sheila Heti's \u003cem\u003eAll Our Happy Days Are Stupid\u003c\/em\u003e, directed with collaborator Erin Brubacher, premiered at Videofag in 2013 and went on to sold-out productions at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre and New York City’s The Kitchen in 2015. Liminal is being made into a feature length art film by the NFB and the National Theatre in the UK.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGROUNDBREAKING LGBTQ ARTIST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFrom 2012-2016, in collaboration with William Ellis, Tannahill ran the alternative art space Videofag out of their home in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood. Over the four years of its operation, Videofag became an influential hub for queer and avant-garde work in Canada.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePUBLICATION TIE-IN WITH HIS NEW PLAY, \u003cem\u003eDECLARATIONS\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLiminal, which is an expansion of his play Declarations, published to coincide with the play’s premiere at CanStage in January 2018. Tannahill published two other works in Fall 2017: \u003cem\u003eThe Videofag Book\u003c\/em\u003e (BookThug), an anthology of essays, photographs, play-texts, and ruminations about the space; and his latest play, \u003cem\u003eDeclarations\u003c\/em\u003e (Coach House Books).\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am wary of revelations. I find anyone claiming to have them dubious. They’re usually charlatans, the ultra-religious, or insane (not that these three types are mutually exclusive; in fact they rarely are). And I find any description of these revelations some combination of sinister and comical, like John Smith receiving golden plates from the angel Moroni in a secret language only he can translate. Even the words “revelation” and “epiphany” are mired in Christian connotations. The first conjures images of John on the island of Patmos having visions of the Whore of Babylon and the Beast, while the second is the realization by the wise men that Christ is the Son of God, rendered throughout art history as the Adoration of the Magi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI suppose the synonym that feels the least corrupted by spiritual chicanery is “eureka,” and yet this word feels burdened by the mythos of masculine scientific discovery, from Archimedes fateful bath to Newton’s gravity-weighted apple (why do I always imagine it hitting his head?) Darwin said he could remember the exact moment during a carriage ride in which he was struck by his “hunch” about natural selection. Nikola Tesla, while recuperating from a recent breakdown brought on by his obsession to solve the mystery of alternating current, was on a walk with a friend in Budapest’s Varosliget Park when he was pierced by his moment of insight. Tesla was looking into the setting sun whilst reciting a passage from Goethe’s Faust (naturally) when a vision of a functioning alternating current electric induction motor appeared to him with such clarity that he grabbed a stick and drew a diagram of it then and there in the dirt. One can almost hear the angelic choral accompaniment. Perhaps because of these bearded white men and their long lineage of eurekas the word has acquired a certain sense of finitude: they each had a question and in an instant it was answered. As if, through years of research and inquiry, their minds were already filled with the necessary information and all that was required was that final synaptic connection to illuminate the network of association.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA word that seems part of this revelatory cohort is “vision,” which again has religious undertones, but also the unfortunate limitations of its sensory association. A vision suggests something that is seen, either literally with one’s eyes in a new way, or seen within the mind’s eye. As the ever-favoured child of the senses, we seem inclined to give seeing undo credit as the conduit of discovery. Though as Proust might agree, throughout my life I’ve probably had more ‘visions’ induced by smell than any other sense. For me, a new awareness is rarely an apparition to be seen or viewed; it does not appear to me like Tesla’s motor. It is something that is felt. An awareness that dawns and slowly spreads its light through my body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I seek is a word that does not suggest a long-sought for answer but rather a deluge of questions. A word for kind of illumination that recalls a caver holding a torch up in an underground chamber and apprehending a few dashes of rock wall at a time, uncertain of how far the cavern extends into darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounter-intuitively, I found something approaching this word in the Bible. The first word in the Book of Revelations — and from which it derives its name — is apokalypsis, which in its original Korine Greek means \"unveiling\" or “revelation.” I find the notion of ‘unveiling’ — of an encounter, smell, sight, sensation that unveils an infinite system of questions and discoveries (which in turn spur more questions) — to be the most vivid evocation of this I can find. I might be even inclined to use the original Greek apokalypsis, as it seems to contain the possibility of discovery in the moment of destruction. Much like the theatre; an art revealed in the moment of its disappearance. And like life itself, theatre can not be rewound or reread; it exists in the temporal present between being and un-being, in what Plato calls the “something inserted between motion and rest (. . .) in no time at all.” An art conjured in the instant of its erasure. And I like the almost preposterous gravity of the world apokalypsis; how it’s cataclysmic and eschatological associations seem to mimic the way in which one world seems to end and another begins in a moment of newfound awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in this instance, for what I’m about to articulate, “unveiling” is the apt word. It conjures for me the image of a man in white gloves pulling a cloth of a painting; the removal of a covering that concealed that which was there all along — something which has been rendered ever more extraordinary by the very fact of its concealment. Rather than by divine conjuring, “unveiling” suggests a moment of discovery arising from matter-of-fact and mortal circumstances. A new way of experiencing something already in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this way, the world is constantly unveiling itself; a stand of trees seen from a fresh angle, the laugher of a dog, a nameless colour, new patterns of movement, of light, of behaviour, patterns in fabric, in birds, in traffic, in music . . . In this way “revelation” is not something a bearded white man once an epoch apprehends but rather a state of becoming that imbues all things at all times. Of course to be in a state of perpetual unveiling is exhausting and disorienting; it’s essentially the way we moved through the world as babies, when everything was revealed and nothing was legible. Gradually, to make sense of the chaos, we fixed things in place, we fixed meaning, we fixed potential, we fixed objects and people and places as knowable and predictable entities and attempted to reduce the instances of unveiling because those upset the order by introducing new variables into the mix. Unveiling, by nature, un-fixes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what happened at 11:04 a.m. on Saturday, January 21, 2017 when I walked into your bedroom and saw your body in bed. In a moment something — perhaps everything — became unveiled. And I became unfixed. It was a moment that lasted less than a second. The interval between a hand feeling water and the pain of it’s scalding heat; between sense and sensation.\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":"Tannahill is a good writer, a natural storyteller with a strong sense of narrative rhythm as well as the ability to launch into almost mystical flights of poetic vision.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"Authors such as Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, among others, are showing their exhaustion with plot, opting to be candid, probing, philosophical, and discursive at a micro-level on the page. Toronto playwright Jordan Tannahill’s lushly intelligent debut novel, Liminal, is an exciting addition to this school . . . Liminal captures something illuminating and undefinable about the present moment . . . A real jaw-dropping intellectual feat . . . A rich and unusual story.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"A 49th Shelf Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-01-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Liminal
From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful novel in the tradition of Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.
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{"id":6812120514619,"title":"Dunk Tank","handle":"dunk-tank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-anticipated second collection from Gerald Lampert Memorial Award–winning poet Kayla Czaga, \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title poem of Kayla Czaga’s sophomore collection, a teenage speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience, confidently hovering before the world plunges her into adult life. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the body as a strange and unknowable landscape: full of cancers that “burst like blackberries,” a butt that could run for prime minister of Canada, and the underworld lurking in Winona Ryder’s pores. Clouds become testicles and uteri turn into goldfish, flickering and fragile, but still ultimately glowing. These poems explore the varied and strange relationships that underpin a young woman’s coming of age, from inconsequential boyfriends to the friendships that rescue us from “grey daily moments.” Unsure of how the world works and her part in it, Czaga forges a landscape of metaphor and gleaming, dense imagery. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e is playful and dark, comic and disturbing.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:52-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-22T11:24:50-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult LGBTQ+","Adult Poetry","By (author) Czaga Kayla","Feminist Reads","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"price":1999,"price_min":1999,"price_max":1999,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40195635642427,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487005962","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Dunk Tank - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":180,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487005962","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ad56d8bc-e939-4bf0-be07-7491a754d9c1.jpg?v=1688098713"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ad56d8bc-e939-4bf0-be07-7491a754d9c1.jpg?v=1688098713","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"This image is in shades of black and white. Six women hang upside down by their knees from a set of monkey bars. They each wear the same uniform of white shorts with a dark stripe and buttons down the side and a white short-sleeved sweater with a thick dark stripe across the chest. Each woman dangles their arms toward the ground. They all have light skin tone and dark hair. Text: Dunk Tank. Kayla Czaga.","id":23564108333115,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ad56d8bc-e939-4bf0-be07-7491a754d9c1.jpg?v=1688098713"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ad56d8bc-e939-4bf0-be07-7491a754d9c1.jpg?v=1688098713","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe much-anticipated second collection from Gerald Lampert Memorial Award–winning poet Kayla Czaga, \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title poem of Kayla Czaga’s sophomore collection, a teenage speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience, confidently hovering before the world plunges her into adult life. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the body as a strange and unknowable landscape: full of cancers that “burst like blackberries,” a butt that could run for prime minister of Canada, and the underworld lurking in Winona Ryder’s pores. Clouds become testicles and uteri turn into goldfish, flickering and fragile, but still ultimately glowing. These poems explore the varied and strange relationships that underpin a young woman’s coming of age, from inconsequential boyfriends to the friendships that rescue us from “grey daily moments.” Unsure of how the world works and her part in it, Czaga forges a landscape of metaphor and gleaming, dense imagery. \u003ci\u003eDunk Tank\u003c\/i\u003e is playful and dark, comic and disturbing.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The poems in Dunk Tank are as immediate, honest, affectionate, raw, anxious, jokey, and thoughtful as an impromptu confession over an evening’s confab. Sparkling with recollection’s rich details, associative leaps, colloquial doses of energy and imaginative reach, Dunk Tank is exhilarating.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"David O’Meara, author of A Pretty Sight","OtherText_Accolades_1":"What a profound, effortless spell Kayla Czaga conjures with this collection. In communion with an array of private and public selves, these poems convince me authentic connection is possible. Desirous and impulsive, problematic as any one of us, the speaker never exempts herself from the world she tallies in tacos, panties, inherited stress, taps on Instagram posts, seagulls heaped like Kleenex. When she confesses ‘it felt \/ like we could say and finally mean \/ something,’ I’m enlivened, senses heightened, as if my name is being called by someone who never calls me by my name.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Sheryda Warrener, author of Floating Is Everything","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCITING EMERGING POET:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKayla Czaga’s first collection, \u003cem\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her poems have since received major acclaim. 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Approachable and skillful in its poetics and narrative detail.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"The author is always inventive in her metaphors and images … All in all Dunk Tank is smart and heartfelt.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Walleye","OtherText_Review_4":"Reading Kayla Czaga’s Dunk Tank is like taking a ride in a hot-wired car from Kitimat, seeing how far it will take you … Czaga creates order from disparate-seeming imagery with an intuitive knack for repetition … Good poetry resonates on different levels, leaves you thinking about your own life for some time beyond. 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Dunk Tank
Dunk Tank is a rich, imaginative, and sometimes absurdist exploration of the landscape of the body and of adult life.
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All they ask of their home, by birth or by choice, is for some semblance of physical autonomy, emotional respect, and financial stability. Crocker implores we acknowledge the power inequity inherent in her city so that we might access an unknown store of compassion and empathy. Eva Crocker’s All I Ask is precise and fervent storytelling. She is a fascinating, keen voice in Newfoundland and Labrador. All I Ask is a compelling novel and an impressive accomplishment for one of our most promising writers.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Megan Gail Coles, author of Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE VOICE OF A GENERATION AND AN EXPLORATION OF URGENT THEMES: \u003c\/strong\u003eEva is a voice of a generation, and this novel is sure to appeal to fans of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh. Following the start of the watershed #MeToo movement, there has been increased public discourse around the difficulties faced by survivors of sexual assault and harassment in reporting to local authorities. This novel explores this and other pressing subjects, including privacy in the digital age (another huge topic of concern), queer love and sexuality, and the disillusionment of young people coming of age in a region in which their opportunities are limited. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEBUT NOVEL FROM AN EXTRAORDINARY YOUNG TALENT: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarrelling Forward\u003c\/em\u003e, the debut collection of short fiction fromEva Crocker, daughter of the beloved and Man Booker Prize–longlisted author Lisa Moore, garnered critical acclaim when it was published in 2017. Eva won the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and was a finalist for both the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers and the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, two of the most prestigious prizes awarded to new authors. Her debut novel is sure to generate significant awards buzz.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA LITERARY NOVEL WITH LGBTQ THEMES AND APPEAL:\u003c\/strong\u003e The author is a writer in the LBGTQ community with a strong sense of social consciousness. 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Comparisons to Sally Rooney and Eileen Myles have been made, but there’s something in Crocker’s forthright descriptions of physical bodies and their functions that feels closer to the work of Ottessa Moshfegh . . . It is Crocker’s straightforward honesty and forthrightness that is most refreshing.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_4":"There are novels that feel alive. There is no other way to describe it, because words like ‘fresh’ or ‘current’ are not enough. These novels are more than just a compelling plot or strong writing. They do more than tap into current events or debates. These novels offer access to something made animate on the page, and speak from a perspective that feels somehow deeply familiar and entirely unknown; Eva Crocker’s All I Ask is one such novel . . . Refreshing as it is tense and sensual as it is sad, All I Ask is a sharp and absorbing read.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll I Ask\u003c\/em\u003e is a carefully crafted, observant novel, whose dialogue and scene composition retain an intimacy and immediacy … [Eva Crocker] writes convincingly of the intersection of the personal and the political … A deft, assured debut.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_Review_6":"Crackling, intense, and ultimately delightful … [All I Ask] is a wonderful character study and an encapsulation of a particular time and place. Plot and prose are rendered perfectly, and the ending will drive readers to scribble questions in the margins and create book clubs and discussion groups. 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All I Ask by the award-winning and highly acclaimed author Eva Crocker is a defining novel of a generation.
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Broughtupsy gives intersectionality a face, name, and head full of braids in this brilliant exploration of family, migration, queerness, and love.
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Valid
A work of queer autofiction and a speculative look at our dark future, Valid is the story of a trans woman who leads her own revolution.
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You Will Be Safe Here
A stunning debut novel about the legacies of abuse, redemption, and the strength of the human spirit, set in South Africa over two centuries.
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This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Kayla Czaga's poetry collection Dunk Tank is limited to 50 copies.
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[it's] a book that's hard to put down, laugh out loud funny and profoundly moving.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Olivia Cole","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"British GQ","OtherText_Review_1":"... a fine memoir about the drama, pain and humour of growing up gay, gifted and poor... [Barr] has an uncanny ability to employ wit to flip you from a wince to a smile -- and sometimes right back again. When need be, he conveys maximum visceral impact, like a Scottish Frank McCourt of Angela's Ashes fame.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Douglas J. Johnston","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"This memoir of deprivation and survival is shrewdly constructed and written with a winning dry humour.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Adam Mars-Jones","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_3":"Undoubtedly, many readers will be riled at the thought of this positive spin on Thatcher, but Barr is writing from his own, unique perspective - he knows she almost screwed his life up completely, but also acknowledges that she was a glimmer of light in the darkness. 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Maggie & Me
A unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small-town Scotland during the Thatcher years.
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Channel of Peace
Channel of Peace is an unforgettable memoir of the extraordinary kindness afforded to passengers whose flights were re-routed to Gander, NL on 9/11.
