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{"id":6813793321019,"title":"These Festive Nights","handle":"these-festive-nights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blais’ prize-winning novel cycle — acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction — reissued in a handsome A List edition, featuring an introduction by \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1995 under the title \u003ci\u003eSoifs\u003c\/i\u003e, the first novel in Marie-Claire Blais’ masterful series won the Governor General’s Award for French Fiction and was hailed by critics around the world as a tour de force, comparing Blais to such literary greats as Virginia Woolf, Dante, Sophocles, and Shakespeare. 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These Festive Nights
The first volume in Marie-Claire Blais’ ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle, acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction.
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An exhilarating technothriller and modern spy novel reminiscent of William Gibson and the golden age of panoramic international espionage fiction.
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This Is How We Love
From the celebrated author of February, an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love?
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Thunder and Light
The second in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. An intricate house of cards, delicately but expertly constructed, that shocks us in its perversity and familiarity.
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Ticknor
George Ticknor is trying to reconcile his own failure with the success of his boyhood friend, the famous American historian William Prescott.
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{"id":6582767910971,"title":"Today I Learned It Was You","handle":"today-i-learned-it-was-you","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for Canada Reads 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a retired actor who frequents a city park is purported to be transitioning from man to deer, municipal authorities in St. John’s, Newfoundland, find themselves confronted by an exasperatingly difficult problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplications mount as advocates, bureaucrats, police, and local politicians try to corral the situation, which escalates into an even bigger problem after the story blows up on Facebook. Leading the charge is the mayor himself. A former professional hockey player and local hero, Mayor Matt Olford is juggling a number of personal challenges on top of his city’s man-deer problem: his wife has become a born-again Christian and he’s found himself attracted to one of his colleagues at City Hall. 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Today I Learned It Was You
From award-winning author Edward Riche comes a hilarious and timely new novel that skewers small-town government and modern identity politics.
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Trembling River
From internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a beguiling story of trauma and lost innocence.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487002152","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770890091","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770894341","BASICMainSubject":"FIC045020","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Family Life \/ Siblings","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCLAIRE FULLER\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bestselling and award-winning author of three previous novels: \u003cem\u003eOur Endless Numbered Days\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Desmond Elliot Prize and was a finalist for the ABA Adult Debut Book of the Year Award and the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award; \u003cem\u003eSwimming Lessons\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a national bestseller; and \u003cem\u003eBitter Orange\u003c\/em\u003e, which was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e She has an M.A. in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Family Life \/ Siblings","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Small Town \u0026amp; Rural","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubject_0":"FIC045020","BISACSubject_1":"FIC066000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC019000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCLAIRE FULLER\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bestselling and award-winning author of three previous novels: \u003cem\u003eOur Endless Numbered Days\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Desmond Elliot Prize and was a finalist for the ABA Adult Debut Book of the Year Award and the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award; \u003cem\u003eSwimming Lessons\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a national bestseller; and \u003cem\u003eBitter Orange\u003c\/em\u003e, which was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e She has an M.A. in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Fuller, Claire","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom bestselling author Claire Fuller comes a portrait of life on the fringes of society, a heart-stopping novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat would you do to get it back?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTwins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. 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This book is ultimately about redemption — about the unexpected importance of neighbours, lovers, and friends, and the ways in which we can re-envision our lives for the better, even after the unimaginable has occurred.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Lucy Tan, author of What We Were Promised","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/em\u003e is another sly psychological treat from Claire Fuller, who just keeps on getting better with each book.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Laline Paull, bestselling author of The Bees and The Ice","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eFuller’s prose is darkly elegant, her eye for character astute and humane, and her sense of place vividly atmospheric — here is a writer of great skill, sensitivity, and subtlety.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eClaire Fuller strikes the perfect balance between beauty and melancholy in this relevant and powerful exploration of isolation and life on the fringes of society.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Clare Mackintosh, author of After the End","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe morning sky lightens, and snow falls on the cottage. It falls on the thatch, concealing the moss and the mouse damage, smoothing out the undulations, filling in the hollows and slips, melting where it touches the bricks of the chimney. It settles on the plants and bare soil in the front garden and forms a perfect mound on top of the rotten gatepost, as though shaped from the inside of a teacup. It hides the roof of the chicken coop, and those of the privy and the old dairy, leaving a dusting across the workbench and floor where the window was broken long ago. In the vegetable garden at the back, the snow slides through the rips in the plastic of the polytunnel, chills the onion sets four inches underground and shrivels the new shoots of the swiss chard. Only the head of the last winter cabbage refuses to succumb, the interior leaves curled green and strong, waiting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the high double bed up the left staircase, Dot lies beside her adult daughter, Jeanie, who is gently snoring. Something different about the light in the room has woken Dot and she can’t get back to sleep. She gets out of the bed — floorboards cold, air colder — and puts on her dressing gown and slippers. The dog — Jeanie’s dog — a biscuit-coloured lurcher who sleeps on the landing with her back to the chimney breast, raises her head, enquiring about the early hour as Dot passes, lowering it when she gets no answer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDownstairs in the kitchen, Dot jabs at the embers in the range with the poker and shoves in a ball of paper, some kindling and a log. There is a pain. Behind her left eye. Between her left eye and her temple. Does the place have a name? She needs to go to the optician, get her eyes checked, but then what? How will she pay for new glasses? She needs to take her prescription to the chemist, but she is worried about the cost. The light is wrong down here, too. Lowing? Owing? Glowing? She touches her temple as though to locate the pain and sees through the curtains, in the gap where they don’t quite meet, that it is snowing. It is the twenty-eighth of April.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer movements must have roused the dog again because now there is a scratching at the door at the bottom of the left staircase and Dot reaches out to unlatch it. She watches her hand grasping the wrought-iron, the liver spots and crosshatching seeming peculiar, unlike anything she’s seen before: the mechanics of her fingers, the way the skin on her knuckles stretches over bone, bending around the handle. The articulation is alien — the hand of an imposter. The effort of pushing on the tiny plate with her thumb seems impossible, a bodily weariness worse even than when her twins were three months old and didn’t sleep at the same time, or the terrible year after they turned twelve. But with great concentration she presses and the latch lifts. The dog pokes her snout through, the rest of her body following. She whimpers and licks Dot’s left hand where it hangs against her thigh, pushes nose into palm, making the hand swing of its own accord, a pendulum. The pain increases and Dot worries that the dog might wake Jeanie with her whining, Jeanie asleep in the right-hand dip in the double mattress, first made by her husband, Frank, long dead, and on the rare occasions when her children were out of the house, by that other unmentionable-at-home man, who is too long for that old short bed so he cannot stretch out, and then hollowed further by Jeanie even though she is a wisp of a thing and only ate a tiny slice of the Victoria sponge they made for when Dot herself turned seventy last month and had at the little celebration here in the kitchen with Bridget taking telephone pictures of Julius on his fiddle and she on her banjo and Jeanie on the guitar all singing after a drop of port to lubricate the vocal chords Julius always says and how the sensation Dot has now is similar to the way she felt after her third glass clumsy and blurred with her thoughts diffuse dizzily leaving the remains of the cake on the table so that dog naughty stood on her hind legs and yumphed it down and them scolding and laughing until her sides … yurt? Kurt? all her loves but one, there with her, and the dog barking and jumping and barking too excited and noisy like she’d be in the snow waking Julius who sleeps so lightly and stirs at any noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll these thoughts and more, which Dot is barely aware of, pass through her mind while her body slows. It is a wet coat she wants to shed like the chickens with their autumn moult. An unresponsive weight. Leaden. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDot falls back onto the kitchen sofa as though someone has reached out a palm and pushed on her breastbone. The dog sits on her haunches and lowers her head onto Dot’s knee, nudging her hand until she places it between the animal’s ears. And then all thoughts of chickens and children, of birthdays and beds, all thoughts of everything, vanish and are silent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe worries of seventy years — the money, the infidelity, the small deceits — are cut away, and when she looks at her hand she can no longer tell where she ends and dog begins. They are one substance, enormous and free, as is the sofa, the stone floor, the walls, the cottage thatch, the snow, the sky. Everything connected. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Jeanie,’ she calls but hears some other word. She isn’t concerned, she has never felt such love for the world and everything in it. The dog makes a noise that isn’t like any noise a dog would make and backs off, so that Dot is forced to remove her hand from the bony head. She shuffles forward on the sofa, she wants to touch the animal again, put her arms around the dog and fall inside of her. But as Dot leans, she tips, her left foot turning on its side and sliding along the floor. Her balance is upset, and she pitches face-forward, her right hand going out to break the fall, while the other catches under her chest, the finger with her wedding ring pinned beneath her. Dot’s head goes down and her forehead hits the edge of the hearth where a flagstone has always been slightly raised, shifting it so that the companion set which hangs beside the range, falls. A last lucid fragment of Dot’s mind worries that the clatter of the metal pan and brush might shock her daughter’s heart from its regular rhythm, until she remembers that this is the biggest lie of all. The poker, which has fallen too, rolls away under the table, rocks once, twice, and then is still.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Fuller is a master of building suspense … At once unsettling and hopeful, her book checks all the boxes of an engrossing mystery.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0_":"Isabel Costello","OtherText_Quote_from_review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/em\u003e shares with Fuller’s previous works themes of closely guarded family secrets and homes built upon shaky foundations … Fuller displays a tenderness for her characters — with all the mistakes they make or lies they tell — as well as highlighting the precariousness of even the most fervently believed truths.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_1_":"Christobel Kent","OtherText_Quote_from_review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Claire Fuller’s \u003cem\u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/em\u003e is so sharply, so utterly brilliant that I found myself holding my breath while reading it, dazzled by Fuller’s mastery and precision. Not since Flaubert’s \u003cem\u003eA Simple Heart\u003c\/em\u003e have I encountered a narrative that shows, with such clear and patient fury, how breathtaking vulnerability can come from poverty, pride, and helpless family love.” \u003cstrong\u003e— \u003cem\u003eNew York Times–\u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author Lauren Groff\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_2_":"Christobel Kent","OtherText_Quote_from_review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Another engrossing book.” \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Fuller’s prose is darkly elegant, her eye for character astute and humane, and her sense of place vividly atmospheric — here is a writer of great skill, sensitivity, and subtlety.” \u003cstrong \u003e— Lucy Atkins, author of \u003cem\u003eMagpie Lane\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem \u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/em\u003e is a gorgeously written celebration of the natural world as well as a moving portrait of a family struggling against time. Through buried secrets and private longings, the Seeders emerge as multi-layered characters living at the fringes of society. This book is ultimately about redemption — about the unexpected importance of neighbours, lovers, and friends, and the ways in which we can re-envision our lives for the better, even after the unimaginable has occurred.” \u003cstrong \u003e— Lucy Tan, author of \u003cem\u003eWhat We Were Promised\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Claire Fuller strikes the perfect balance between beauty and melancholy in this relevant and powerful exploration of isolation and life on the fringes of society.” \u003cstrong\u003e— Clare Mackintosh, author of\u003cem\u003e After the End\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“A revelatory experience … [Claire Fuller is] a novelist doing her strongest work yet … This is a powerful, beautiful novel that shows us our land as it really is: a place of shelter and cruelty, innocence and experience.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_7_":"Isabel Costello","OtherText_Quote_from_review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“This fourth novel from the award-winning Fuller begins with a heartrending crisis for adult twins Julius and Jeanie Seeder … A gripping, unsettling narrative that ultimately offers a journey of resilience and hope, with unforgettable results.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_8_":"Isabel Costello","OtherText_Quote_from_review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“Fuller writers agonizingly well about the poverty, and the cruelty of predatory villagers who smell fresh blood. The scenario is thick with jeopardy — just when you think things can’t get worse, they do — yet, blessedly, the climax pulls back from the abyss without losing a jot of drama. Superb.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quot_10":"\u003cp\u003e“A kind of photonegative English pastoral … \u003cem\u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/em\u003e examines where the fault lines lie — how a parent’s errors can reverberate through a life.” \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quot_11":"\u003cp\u003e“[Fuller’s] absorbing novel unsettles us with its fine evocation of life’s fragility while grounding us in the healing powers of love, loyalty, and nature’s bounty.” \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quot_12":"\u003cp\u003e“[Fuller’s] memorable characters will work their way into your head and heart.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quot_13":"\u003cp\u003e“Sometimes it’s the slowest growers that have the strongest roots. A former sculptor who began writing at the age of forty, Fuller’s been quietly cultivating a devoted following throughout the publication of three psychologically sharp novels. Her fourth novel is … a dark tale, no doubt — but if you’re a reader who lives for contemplative storytelling and perfectly wrought characters, this author is for you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quot_14":"\u003cp\u003e“Fuller has a keen eye for how things fall apart. Ruinous living is a theme in all her novels … But ruination is also the scene of patching up, as Fuller’s characters deploy their skills of brushing, mending, sewing, and painting. The same goes for parental manipulation. In \u003cem\u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/em\u003e, it is only when the big lie is revealed that renovation can commence.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quot_15":"\u003cp\u003e“Fuller paints a devastatingly haunting picture of abject poverty … This tale offers a remarkable peek into how the embrace of family can completely smother other aspects of life. Nevertheless, human ingenuity persists … It’s reassuring to think that reinvention is possible after all.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quot_16":"\u003cp\u003e“Claire Fuller has long been a writer expert on both character and relationships. The \u003cem\u003eUnsettled\u003c\/em\u003e in the title is well chosen — there’s an unsettling edge to the world Fuller creates, but it is one that slowly, skilfully draws the reader in, weaving a captivating tale of love, resilience, and survival.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quot_17":"\u003cp\u003e\"Fuller’s prose is often graceful, lyrical ... Fuller has a remarkable way of juxtaposing beauty with ugliness, resilience with despair, and her portrayal of these troubled but appealing siblings is as sensitive as it is powerful. \u003cem\u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/em\u003e shows us that at any age, the unexpected can trip us up and force us to rewrite not only our present but our past.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eAnother engrossing book.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Lauren Groff, New York Times–bestselling author","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Entertainment Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e[Fuller’s] memorable characters will work their way into your head and heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10":"\u003cp\u003eSometimes it’s the slowest growers that have the strongest roots. A former sculptor who began writing at the age of forty, Fuller’s been quietly cultivating a devoted following throughout the publication of three psychologically sharp novels. Her fourth novel is … a dark tale, no doubt — but if you’re a reader who lives for contemplative storytelling and perfectly wrought characters, this author is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"BookPage, Writers to Watch","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003e[A] stunning story … Touching on themes of love, friendship, and neighbours, [\u003cem\u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/em\u003e is] a powerful exploration of loneliness and isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Christobel Kent","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Independent","OtherText_Review_12":"\u003cp\u003e[Fuller’s] absorbing novel unsettles us with its fine evocation of life’s fragility while grounding us in the healing powers of love, loyalty, and nature’s bounty.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Irish Independent","OtherText_Review_13":"\u003cp\u003eClaire Fuller has long been a writer expert on both character and relationships. The \u003cem\u003eUnsettled\u003c\/em\u003e in the title is well chosen — there’s an unsettling edge to the world Fuller creates, but it is one that slowly, skilfully draws the reader in, weaving a captivating tale of love, resilience, and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Living Magazines","OtherText_Review_14":"\u003cp\u003eThis fourth novel from the award-winning Fuller begins with a heartrending crisis for adult twins Julius and Jeanie Seeder … A gripping, unsettling narrative that ultimately offers a journey of resilience and hope, with unforgettable results.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_15":"\u003cp\u003eFuller paints a devastatingly haunting picture of abject poverty … This tale offers a remarkable peek into how the embrace of family can completely smother other aspects of life. Nevertheless, human ingenuity persists … It’s reassuring to think that reinvention is possible after all.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_16":"\u003cp\u003eFuller is a master of building suspense … At once unsettling and hopeful, her book checks all the boxes of an engrossing mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_16_Auth":"Clare Mackintosh, author of After the End","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_17":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/em\u003e, Claire Fuller uncovers marginalized lives we don’t often see on the page in the rich and sensory prose that has gained her a strong following.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Isabel Costello","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"The Literary Sofa","OtherText_Review_18":"\u003cp\u003eFuller paints a devastatingly haunting picture of abject poverty … This tale offers a remarkable peek into how the embrace of family can completely smother other aspects of life. Nevertheless, human ingenuity persists … It’s reassuring to think that reinvention is possible after all.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_19":"\u003cp\u003eFuller is a master of building suspense … At once unsettling and hopeful, her book checks all the boxes of an engrossing mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Lucy Tan, author of What We Were Promised","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Good Housekeeping","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eFuller explores the painful realities of poverty and social isolation with immense sensitivity in this multi-layered and emotionally astute novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_20":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/em\u003e, Claire Fuller uncovers marginalized lives we don’t often see on the page in the rich and sensory prose that has gained her a strong following.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_20_Auth":"Isabel Costello","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"The Literary Sofa","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eFuller writers agonizingly well about the poverty, and the cruelty of predatory villagers who smell fresh blood. 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Unsettled Ground
A portrait of life on the fringes of society and a heart-stopping novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival.
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Vaudeville!
Vaudeville! is an enchanted tale on the scale of New York itself, overflowing with puzzles and horrors.
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Ohlin’s sly irony leavens the aching plights of characters for whom closure is unattainable.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_Review_1":"Glittering ... Shot through with dark humor and keen powers of observation, this collection probes our contradictions with incisive clarity.","OtherText_Review_10":"Ohlin’s characters are so genuine you’ll be reminded of people you know, love and hate. For better or worse, you may even see yourself in the pages.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Marie Claire","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003eAnother rich collection full of insights and sticky contradictions … Ohlin reveals the depth of her characters with empathy and precision … More than worth the price of admission.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_12":"\u003cp\u003eEvery story in this exquisite collection is a gem full of startling surprises and insights into human nature. 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We Want What We Want
Thirteen glittering and darkly funny stories of people testing boundaries, from two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin.
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{"id":6815469371451,"title":"Where Did You Sleep Last Night","handle":"where-did-you-sleep-last-night","description":"\u003cp\u003eDoes true love have supernatural power?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere Did You Sleep Last Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a love story about a teenage girl who embarks on a relationship with Kurt Cobain.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEvelyn Gray is a sad and lonely sixteen-year-old from Carnation, Washington who is terrorized by her classmates at school. 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Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a love story about a teenage girl who embarks on a relationship with Kurt Cobain.
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It’s in her style, of course. In her method, certainly. In her inventiveness, no doubt. But it goes beyond all that. With Wilhelmy, it lies in the pact she makes with the reader, as if the singularity of the universe she offers us does not come so much from literature, as from witchcraft. An ode to all-powerful freedom: of the body, of the land, of language, and of the feminine.” — \u003cem \u003eVoir.ca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Like the places she creates, Audrée Wilhelmy’s literary domain is vast and never ceases to dazzle.” — \u003cem \u003eLettres québécoises\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“By means of a demanding and chiseled prose, eminently poetic, rich in neologisms and in borrowings from native and northern European languages (several can be found in a very convenient ‘Lexicon’), Wilhelmy draws us into a reality that is both familiar and transfigured, where femininity and nature maintain profound and mysterious relationships.” — \u003cem \u003eNuit Blanche\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR AUDRÉE WILHELMY AND \u003cem \u003eTHE BODY OF BEASTS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“A bold, tactile tale as vivid as cold sea water, \u003cem \u003eThe Body of the Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e is an attentive study of desire, the senses, nature, and freedom, in which the lines between human and animal are blurred and those between good and bad are obliterated. Whether delving into the hushed violence permeating her characters’ lives or describing the exuberant, heartbreaking beauty of the wilderness, Wilhelmy’s powerful voice is soft but incisive, and Ouriou’s delicately crafted translation does her story every justice. This is a novel that conjures imaginary worlds but speaks to the most acute of realities.” — Catherine Leroux, Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated author of\u003cem \u003e The Party Wall \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem \u003eMadame Victoria\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Audrée Wilhelmy built a literary universe unlike anything else that's been created in Quebec at the moment.” — Catherine Leroux, CBC Books\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“A marvel … The style is magnificent, the characters unforgettable: Noé, Mie, and Osip are great literary creations. As with all this author’s books, the sensual is omnipresent, and sometimes troubling. The ending is overwhelming, and the chapter on the skinning of a whale is fantastic. Run to buy this book as soon as it arrives at the store!” — Michel Tremblay, winner of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“\u003cem \u003eThe Body of the Beasts \u003c\/em\u003eis a visceral story with wings: rhythmically beating, it both suffocates readers and prepares us to soar.” — \u003cem \u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“\u003cem \u003eThe Body of the Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e is daring and darkly erotic, as emotionally and morally elusive as the characters who roam within it … Wilhelmy’s language is tight yet immersive; there is an underlying melancholy to it, like being alone in a forest with nothing but the sound of rustling leaves. It is rare and delightful to find a novel where language and character move so seamlessly together, hand in hand … A piece of this book will linger.” — \u003cem \u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Sensual and strange.” — \u003cem \u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Uncanny and debaucherous.” — \u003cem \u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“[Wilhelmy] is a meticulous recorder of the dramatic wilderness … Lovely writing.” — \u003cem \u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e “With a miniaturist’s touch, Audrée Wilhelmy creates a singular universe suffused with sap and silence, at once lush to the limit, smothering and amoral … A \u003cem \u003etour de force\u003c\/em\u003e of audacity and sensuality achieved unhesitatingly in full-bodied writing that is precise and without misstep. A brilliant novel that explores from on high an aspect of the human condition too often eluded: our own bestiality.” —\u003cem \u003e Le Devoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Masterful … Finding beauty in unexpected places, be they natural settings or seldom-explored corners of human behaviour, is something Wilhelmy does as well as any young writer in any language.” — \u003cem \u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR AUDRÉE WILHELMY AND \u003cem \u003eLES SANGS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix des lecteurs de l’Hebdo\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix Marie Claire du roman féminin\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix des libraires du Québec\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix France-Québec\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR AUDRÉE WILHELMY AND \u003cem \u003eOSS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Governor General’s Literary Award\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLonglist, Prix des libraires du Québec\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAudrée Wilhelmy is a major force in Quebec literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem \u003eWhite Resin \u003c\/em\u003eis a companion story to Wilhelmy’s last novel, \u003cem \u003eThe Body of the Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e, featuring the origins of that book’s central family.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eDark magical realism is a burgeoning and exciting genre for female novelists and writers.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Review_0":"There is something about Audrée Wilhelmy I cannot find anywhere else. It’s in her style, of course. In her method, certainly. In her inventiveness, no doubt. But it goes beyond all that. With Wilhelmy, it lies in the pact she makes with the reader, as if the singularity of the universe she offers us does not come so much from literature, as from witchcraft. An ode to all-powerful freedom: of the body, of the land, of language, and of the feminine.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Voir.ca","OtherText_Review_1":"Like the places she creates, Audrée Wilhelmy’s literary domain is vast and never ceases to dazzle.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Lettres québécoises","OtherText_Review_2":"By means of a demanding and chiseled prose, eminently poetic, rich in neologisms and in borrowings from native and northern European languages (several can be found in a very convenient ‘Lexicon’), Wilhelmy draws us into a reality that is both familiar and transfigured, where femininity and nature maintain profound and mysterious relationships.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Nuit Blanche","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e[A] poetic, imaginative tale about the relationship between nature and industry.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eThe lingering power of the story lies with the vivid imagery Wilhelmy conjures … Susan Ouriou’s translation is a marvel of precision and musicality.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Canadian Notes \u0026amp; Queries","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eWhite Resin\u003c\/em\u003e is an enchanting, heartbreaking novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eWhite Resin \u003c\/em\u003erestores a vision of the Canadian wilderness more in line with Indigenous ideas of a mutually dependent relationship between humanity and the natural environment. As a novel for our ecologically riven moment, it’s particularly powerful. As a lyrical, strange, occasionally mysterious story, it is unlike most anything else you’re likely to read in quite a while.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"That Shakespearean Rag","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003eAn ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award","PrizeYear_0":"2022","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2021-09-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003eAn ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n"}
White Resin
An ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it.
