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{"id":7095986913339,"title":"Back in the Land of the Living","handle":"back-in-the-land-of-the-living","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos by Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author Eva Crocker.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBack in the Land of the Living\u003c\/em\u003e brings us a year in the life of Marcy, a young queer woman who moves to Montreal in the fall of 2019 after making a mess of her life in St. John’s. Alone in a big city on the brink of lockdown, Marcy finds herself working an assortment of odd and sometimes dangerous, sometimes ethically questionable jobs, and swept up in a tumultuous romance with a charismatic woman. As friends, loyalties, and philosophies collide, Marcy tries to carve out a future amidst the intertwined crises of late capitalism, the climate apocalypse, and the Covid-19 pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith all the candour, wit, and bracing wisdom that have won her accolades and awards across Canada, Eva Crocker gives us a sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-02-23T16:47:51-05:00","created_at":"2023-02-23T15:54:03-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult LGBTQ+","By (author) Crocker Eva","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2023-08-22"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2399,"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":41136187015227,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487009779","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Back in the Land of the Living - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2399,"weight":327,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487009779","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41136228237371,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487009786","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Back in the Land of the Living - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487009786","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc9fbba6-71a0-452e-b8cd-8f7148469c1c.jpg?v=1716049495"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc9fbba6-71a0-452e-b8cd-8f7148469c1c.jpg?v=1716049495","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24557333217339,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc9fbba6-71a0-452e-b8cd-8f7148469c1c.jpg?v=1716049495"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bc9fbba6-71a0-452e-b8cd-8f7148469c1c.jpg?v=1716049495","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos by Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author Eva Crocker.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBack in the Land of the Living\u003c\/em\u003e brings us a year in the life of Marcy, a young queer woman who moves to Montreal in the fall of 2019 after making a mess of her life in St. John’s. Alone in a big city on the brink of lockdown, Marcy finds herself working an assortment of odd and sometimes dangerous, sometimes ethically questionable jobs, and swept up in a tumultuous romance with a charismatic woman. As friends, loyalties, and philosophies collide, Marcy tries to carve out a future amidst the intertwined crises of late capitalism, the climate apocalypse, and the Covid-19 pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith all the candour, wit, and bracing wisdom that have won her accolades and awards across Canada, Eva Crocker gives us a sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A sexy, unforgettable story about love and longing in a time of chaos by Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author Eva Crocker.
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She may seem ordinary enough, pricing silk scarves at Eaton’s or idling in hotel coffee shops, but in fact she is searching for her lover. He is an elusive figure, a man connected with “The Agency,” a powerful technocrat who may or may not have suggested a rendezvous based on a secret code in the \u003cem\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer search takes her to the world of her past as a Jewish immigrant in the Spadina-Dundas area of Toronto. She finds the bakeries and rooming houses of her youth still haunted by survivors of postwar Europe and by her own memories of guilt and loss, while the consolations of art, opera, and pornography offer only echoes of her own illusions and desires. Her strange, wryly funny odyssey ends in a dramatic confrontation scene with her husband and “the other woman,” as she trades in her basic black for another chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e, Weinzweig displays her gift for creating sympathetic characters in a slightly surreal, but always recognizable world.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Basic Black with Pearls
In her search for a lover, Shirley sheds her drab existence together with torturous memories of guilt and loss as a Jewish immigrant in Toronto.
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Bonnie Jack
From the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee series, a bold and captivating new novel about a search for lost family and the cost of keeping secrets.
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A heartrending exploration of grief, loss, identity, and desire—of family and all the ways the ones you love can hurt and heal you—\u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e is a marvel.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eJasmine Sealy, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Island of Forgetting\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Jasmine Sealy, author of The Island of Forgetting","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Cooke's prose is vivid, propulsive, and visceral.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eAngie Cruz, author of \u003cem\u003eHow Not to Drown in a Glass of Water\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Angie Cruz, author of How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"What a brilliant novel \u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e is, with its crackling dialogue and vivid descriptions of the sights, sounds, and smells of Kingston—don’t read it when you’re hungry! I longed for nothing more than for Akúa, the passionate, opinionated heroine, to safely navigate the vicissitudes of loss and sisterhood. A stunning debut.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eMargot Livesey, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Boy in the Field\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"Christina Cooke’s \u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing, touching, and often funny meditation on family fault lines drawn by migration, homophobia, cultural difference, and sibling order, from a talented new writer among us.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eEmily Raboteau, author of \u003cem\u003eSearching for Zion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Dawnie Walton, author of The Final Revival of Opal \u0026 Nev","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"Peppered with music, sensuality, and unflinching emotion, \u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e completely immersed me in Akúa’s fraught homecoming journey through the heat and the heart of Kingston. Christina Cooke poses thrillingly nuanced, provocative questions about what it means to feel at home, what we owe to our families, and how to guard the boundaries of the self while navigating it all. A gorgeous debut!\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDawnie Walton, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Final Revival of Opal \u0026 Nev\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Stacey D'Erasmo, author of The Complicities","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"A luminous tale of a latter-day Antigone who navigates grief, love, death, sex, violence, language, queerness, race, and three countries with courage, joy, and a tender heart.\u003cem\u003e Broughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e is an instant classic and Christina Cooke brings beauty and truth to every page.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eStacey D'Erasmo, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Complicities\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in the Field","OtherText_Accolades_7":"\u003cp\u003e\"Christina Cooke’s \u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e is a fiery debut novel that breaks new ground. It recounts the coming of age of an Afro-Caribbean lesbian who travels home to Jamaica from Canada seeking solace and finds her sense of self threatened by the triple undertow of grief, alienation, and homophobia.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eNaomi Jackson, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Star Side of Bird Hill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_7_Auth":"Naomi Jackson, author of The Star Side of Bird Hill","OtherText_Accolades_8":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Broughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e is a tale that spans the hemisphere, from Jamaica to Texas to British Columbia. It also spans the evocative and intricate lengths of kinship and relationship. Christina Cooke weaves a tale of personal revelation and desire, spun from a language that is agile, vibrant, and expert in its registers.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eWayde Compton, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Outer Harbour \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Road: A Fable of Migration\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_8_Auth":"Wayde Compton, author of The Outer Harbour and The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eChristina Cooke is one of the winners of this year’s Writers’ Trust McClelland \u0026 Stewart Journey Prize. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Born in Jamaica, Christina is now a Canadian citizen who lives and writes in New York City.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is a co-publication with prestigious US independent press Catapult.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis beautifully written novel features a Black queer protagonist returning home in an attempt to answer questions about family, identity, love, and belonging.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eChristina Cooke is one of the winners of this year’s Writers’ Trust McClelland \u0026 Stewart Journey Prize. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Born in Jamaica, Christina is now a Canadian citizen who lives and writes in New York City.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is a co-publication with prestigious US independent press Catapult.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis beautifully written novel features a Black queer protagonist returning home in an attempt to answer questions about family, identity, love, and belonging.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Cooke’s vibrant debut novel is a queer coming-of-age story and a chronicle of diasporic rediscovery.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“The idea of ‘going home’ is, for many members of the LGBTQ+ community, a complicated one...Cooke’s narration, at once poetic and conversational, lends Akúa’s story a sense of urgency and resonance.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10":"\u003cp\u003e\"Christina Cooke’s \u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e follows in the tradition of novels that invite readers to step over the threshold and insist on fully realised selfhood in the personal space one occupies: an engaging and rewarding debut.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Temz Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003e\"Cooke’s lush prose is poetic, but clear and restrained enough to maintain the momentum of the main plot, which moves along at a refreshingly brisk pace … For all its emotional weight, \u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy \u003c\/em\u003erefuses to settle for easy answers.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlenitude\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12":"\u003cp\u003e\"Cooke is excellent at showing the contrast between what gets said out loud, and the interior, unvoiced subtext … This novel is full of feelings.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBritish Columbia Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“This is a deft debut overflowing with emotion.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eElle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"Cooke makes an assured debut … [She] successfully evokes the temerity and rebellious intelligence of Françoise Sagan’s \u003cem\u003eBonjour Tristesse.\" — \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Broughtupsy … \u003c\/em\u003eweaves effortlessly between present and past, showing—often at a single glance—historic events and their effect in the present. It’s a dizzying, compelling effect, and one which Cooke achieves with a deceptive ease … A powerful account of an attempt to find a place, both in the physical world, and deep within the self.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"The story builds to a fierce, then sweetly redemptive, climax. The voice of innocence, the violence, and the sibling dynamics of Cooke’s debut recall Justin Torres’ \u003cem\u003eWe the Animals \u003c\/em\u003e(2011), also a queer coming-of-age story—but this blend of those elements is as unique as a thumbprint. Vivid, emotionally intense, and unafraid of the dark.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"A moving coming-of-age story.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“This debut novel delivers an atmospheric story . . . If your favorite movie is Moonlight and\/or you’re a Justin Torres stan, \u003cem\u003eBroughtups\u003c\/em\u003ey will wound and delight.”\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003cem\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e\"Descriptive and Imaginative debut … \u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e considers the demands of family, identity, and culture, as well as the complex nature of belonging.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“The experience of reading \u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e is one of being dispersed, disbanded, maybe even unraveled. And then reconstituted, over and over. Some upbringings are like that. Some homecomings are a chance to disrupt the cycle.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrism International\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003e\u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e gives intersectionality a face, name, and head full of braids in this brilliant exploration of family, migration, queerness, and love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"2025 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Fiction","PrizeYear_0":"2025","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2024-01-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003e\u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e gives intersectionality a face, name, and head full of braids in this brilliant exploration of family, migration, queerness, and love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"A Novel","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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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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Then Mayya lost herself to love: a silent passion, but it sent tremors surging through her slight form, night after night, cresting in waves of tears and sighs. These were moments when she truly believed she would not survive the awful force of her longing to see him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer body prostrate, ready for the dawn prayers, she made a whispered oath. By the greatness of God — I want nothing, O Lord, just to see him. I solemnly promise you, Lord, I don’t even want him to look my way … I just want to see him. That’s all I want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother hadn’t given the matter of love any particular thought, since it never would have occurred to her that pale Mayya, so silent and still, would think about anything in this mundane world beyond her threads and the selvages of her fabrics, or that she would hear anything other than the clatter of her sewing machine. Mayya seemed to hardly shift position throughout the day, or even halfway into the night, her form perched quietly on the narrow, straight-backed wood chair in front of the black sewing machine with the image of a butterfly on its side. She barely even lifted her head, unless she needed to look as she groped for her scissors or fished another spool of thread out of the plastic sewing basket which always sat in her small wood utility chest. But Mayya heard everything in the world there was to hear. She noticed the brilliant hues life could have, however motionless her body might be. Her mother was grateful that Mayya’s appetite was so meagre (even if, now and then, she felt vestiges of guilt). She hoped fervently, though she would never have put her hope into words, that one of these days someone would come along who respected Mayya’s talents as a seamstress as much as he might appreciate her abstemious ways. The someone she envisioned would give Mayya a fine wedding procession after which he would take her home with all due ceremony and regard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat someone arrived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs usual Mayya was seated on that narrow chair, bent over the sewing machine at the far end of the long sitting room that opened onto the compound’s private courtyard. Her mother walked over to her, beaming. She pressed her hand gently into her daughter’s shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMayya, my dear! The son of Merchant Sulayman has asked for your hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpasms shot through Mayya’s body. Her mother’s hand suddenly felt unbearably heavy on her shoulder and her throat went dry. She couldn’t stop imagining her sewing thread winding itself around her neck like a hangman’s noose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother smiled. I thought you were too old by now to put on such a girlish show! You needn’t act so bashful, Mayya.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that was that. The subject was closed and no one raised it again. Mayya’s mother busied herself assembling the wedding clothes, concocting just the right blends of incense, having all the large seat-cushions reupholstered, and getting word out to the entire family. Mayya’s sisters kept their views to themselves and her father left the matter in her mother’s hands. After all, these were her girls and marriage was women’s business.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"An innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Booth’s translation honours the elliptical rhythms of Arabic and the language’s rich literary heritage . . . Yet there is no doubt that this is a contemporary novel, insistent and alive . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"The great pleasure of reading Celestial Bodies is witnessing a novel argue, through the achieved perfection of its form, for a kind of inquiry that only the novel can really conduct. The ability to move freely through time, the privileged access to the wounded privacies of many characters, the striking diversity of human beings across a relatively narrow canvas, the shock waves as one generation heaves, like tectonic plates, against another, the secrets and lapses and repressions, at once intimate and historical, the power, indeed, of an investigation that is always political and always intimate — here is the novel being supremely itself, proving itself up to the job by changing not its terms of employment but the shape of the task.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_2":"A rich, dense web of a novel . . . The chorus of voices that arises from these pages, at once harmonious and dissonant, constitutes nothing less than the assertion of the right to exist and to be recognized.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"The glimpses into a culture relatively little known in the West are fascinating.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_4":"Ambitious, intense . . . With exhilarating results, Alharthi throws the reader into the midst of a tangled family drama in which unrequited love, murder, suicide, and adultery seem the rule rather than the exception . . . [Celestial Bodies] is all the more satisfying for the complexity of its tale.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"A richly layered, ambitious work that teems with human struggles and contradictions, providing fascinating insight into Omani history and society.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_6":"A book to win over the head and the heart in equal measure, worth lingering over. Interweaving voices and timelines are beautifully served by the pacing of the novel. Its delicate artistry draws us into a richly imagined community — opening out to tackle profound questions of time and mortality and disturbing aspects of our shared history. The style is a metaphor for the subject, subtly resisting clichés of race, slavery, and gender. The translation is precise and lyrical, weaving in the cadences of both poetry and everyday speech. Celestial Bodies evokes the forces that constrain us and those that set us free.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Bettany Hughes","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Man Booker International Prize","OtherText_Review_7":"The novel is a beautifully achieved account of lives pulling at the edges of change. The writing is teasingly elliptical throughout and there is a kind of poetic understatement that draws the reader into the domestic settings and public tribulations of the three sisters . . . Celestial Bodies deftly undermines recurrent stereotypes about Arab language and cultures, but most importantly brings a distinctive and important new voice to world literature.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Man Booker International Prize","PrizeName_1":"A Kirkus Reviews Best Book","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-10-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.
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Elegantly sleazy, sensuously creepy, and funny as hell, Chicken is one of the best Hollywood novels I've read in years.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Dan Chaon","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA COMPANION TO THE CRITICALLY LAUDED \u003cem\u003eWHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT?\u003c\\\/em\u003e:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eLynn Crosbie’s last novel, \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night?\u003c\\\/em\u003e was released to rave reviews (including a starred review in \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\\\/em\u003e), and in many ways \u003cem\u003eChicken\u003c\\\/em\u003e picks up the themes of love, power, desire, and devastation contributed to \u003cem\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night?\u003c\\\/em\u003e’s critical appeal. 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Chicken sounds a clarion call for the necessity and potential of transgressive literature — the kind that allows difficult, conflicting truths to exist simultaneously. Crosbie defiantly acknowledges both the deviant and the sacred, the romantics and rebels that exist in all of us.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2018-05-22","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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An acidly funny, raw, and devastating love story of a decrepit, fallen film star and the young feminist filmmaker who revives his career.
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Chrysalis
Genre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community.
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De Niro's Game
A-List edition of Rawi Hage's classic novel De Niro's Game, with a new introduction by Colm Toibin.
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Dog Park
A ferociously plotted novel of intrigue, betrayal, and murder in the global fertility market.
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Don’t Look At Me Like That
Editor Diana Athill’s only novel is an unflinching look at love and betrayal through the story of a young woman finding herself in 1950s London.
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{"id":6899075383355,"title":"Dual Citizens","handle":"dual-citizens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin comes an intimate and compelling novel of motherhood, love, a search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll her life, Lark Brossard felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliant pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally by Lawrence Wheelock, a filmmaker who is both Lark’s employer and her occasional lover. When Wheelock denies her what she longs for most — a child — Lark is forced to re-examine a life marked by unrealized ambitions and thwarted desires. 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A spellbinding fever dream of a tale that will leave you forever changed, and will surely earn Ohlin a place among the greatest writers of our generation. I loved it.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year","OtherText_Accolades_1":"This novel sneaks up on you the way life does — full of chance and yearning. It’s a precise, subtle, sad, and graceful story about how we care for each other, and how we try to, and how we fail.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Ohlin’s story of sisters wraps its tendrils deep as any family. Dual Citizens leads a reader through landscapes of compassion and crisis in this deeply felt, iridescent novel of the spells and surprises a sibling creates.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark","OtherText_Accolades_3":"There’s so much life in this novel! Alix Ohlin is such an effortless, absorbing stylist, and with Dual Citizens she has given us a story about family and sacrifice that will give readers a great deal to consider. It’s a wonderful book that you will want to share.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Owen King, author of Double Feature","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eFor longtime admirers of Alix Ohlin’s fiction, the psychological complexity and keen observations in this novel will come as no surprise. In \u003cem\u003eDual Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e, Ohlin examines the conflicting desires of two sisters from Montreal with a riveting precision reminiscent of fellow Montreal native Mavis Gallant. However, unlike Gallant’s Montreal girls, Ohlin’s are not of a generation ‘trained to be good and patient’ but to follow their ambitions. A lifelong witness to one’s shifting longings, this wise and luminous novel shows, is a sibling.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Idra Novey, author of Those Who Knew","OtherText_Accolades_5":"Alix Ohlin is a thrilling and singular writer who intimately captures and celebrates a lifetime of desires, disappointments, and everyday triumphs in these two sisters’ lives. 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Dual Citizens is a compulsively readable novel about family, sisterhood, and those uncontrollable forces that drive and haunt us.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Rogers Writers’Trust Fiction Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_3":"Evocative … Traces [its] characters over long arcs of time and place with equal amounts grace and wit.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Vogue","OtherText_Review_4":"If storytellers seduce not just with the tale but how they tell it, then Ohlin is exemplary.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_5":"Luminous … Ohlin’s touching, beautifully crafted story traces the unbreakable bond holding the sisters together, even when miles apart, through many changes.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_6":"Ohlin’s prose and insight are luminous … As with her prior novel, Inside, Ohlin is adroit at articulating her characters’ internal dialogues, and it becomes apparent to the reader as it does to both women that they are at their most harmonious when connected to each other.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_7":"Alix Ohlin’s gorgeously understated writing brings her characters to vivid, brilliant life, especially fiercely loyal and socially awkward Lark, who felt like someone we’d love to be friends with.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Apple Books Canada","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An intimate and compelling novel about motherhood, love and the search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_1":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"02","PrizeCode_1":"02","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeName_0":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_1":"Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_2":"A CBC Book of the Year","PrizeName_3":"A Globe and Mail Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","PrizeYear_2":"2019","PrizeYear_3":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-06-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An intimate and compelling novel about motherhood, love and the search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Dual Citizens
An intimate and compelling novel about motherhood, love and the search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister.
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Aine is a heroine for our times; a natural truth-teller with a volatile secret, she comes of age in a world shimmering with promise and pain. ‘What are you made of?’ that world demands, and Aine rises to respond. As long as we have hearts and minds like hers—and her creator’s—everything might be fine here after all.” —\u003cstrong\u003eAlissa York, author of \u003cem\u003eFar Cry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eEverything Is Fine Here\u003c\/em\u003e is an utter pleasure to read. Iryn Tushabe’s exquisite prose strikes at the heart of its characters and their desires to be their truest selves in a country at odds with their identities. Caught in the tensions between personal freedom and familial, cultural, and societal expectations, Aine’s fierce love for her sister makes this story so alive, so moving, so triumphant in its realness. This novel reads like a gesture of faith; it moved me to tears, of both laughter and compassion.” —\u003cstrong\u003efrancesca ekwuyasi, author of \u003cem\u003eButter Honey Pig Bread\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIryn Tushabe won the City of Regina writing award in 2020, she was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021, and won this year’s Writers’ Trust McClelland \u0026 Stewart Journey Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTushabe is involved in the literary scene in Regina as a member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and board member at Sage Hill Writing. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe book presents serious, yet celebratory LGBTQ themes. Tushabe has made a conscious choice to exclude the violence\/brutality that comes with being queer in Uganda because that story\/novel has already been written by many other writers. She wanted to tell a more hopeful story that acknowledges the brutality but points to the possibility of thriving queer relationships.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAs a recovering Christian, Iryn Tushabe is interested in discussing spirituality and portrayals of religious faith in literature. Her characters are younger women grappling with faith and womanhood.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eEverything is Fine Here\u003c\/em\u003e, Iryn Tushabe proves herself to be a talented and brave writer who isn’t afraid to tackle tough issues of our time.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Room Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“An anti-colonial and queer feminist novel … that’s a stimulating, entertaining, thought-provoking and optimistic story – as well as a rally cry – all at once.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eScout Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eEverything Is Fine Here\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderfully heart-warming book.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— The Miramichi Reader \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA beguiling coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2025-04-22","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA beguiling coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"A Novel","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Everything Is Fine Here
A beguiling coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people.
