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The Temple at the End of the Universe
A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith.
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River Meets the Sea
A spellbinding, spirited tale of two men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to feel at home in their own skins.
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Park Cruising
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex.
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A Table Set for Sisterhood
A wholly original feminist cookbook featuring over thirty recipes, each linked to a significant woman throughout history and from across the globe.
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{"id":7014714146875,"title":"Trinity Street","handle":"trinity-street","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, \u003cem\u003eTrinity Street\u003c\/em\u003e is the much-anticipated fifth collection from poet Jen Currin, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda finalist. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Trinity Street is in fact an actual street in Vancouver, it is also the site of an imaginary garden and imperfect utopia in the title poem of this new collection. Currin’s poems weave together the meditative and the disruptive, the queer and quotidian, and the worlds of the dead and the living. Connections are made through prayer and protest; friendships are forged on a planet challenged by climate crisis, collective grief, and the perils of late capitalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems vibrate with unexpected shifts and precise, startling imagery, the touchstones of a poet whose work critics have described as “thrilling,” “emotionally evocative,” and “revelatory.”\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-10-14T10:50:50-04:00","created_at":"2022-10-13T16:51:34-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult LGBTQ+","Adult New Releases","Adult Poetry","By (author) Currin Jen","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2023-04-04"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":1999,"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":40874727374907,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011628","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Trinity Street - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":181,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011628","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40874727899195,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011635","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Trinity Street - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011635","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c7ee3238-18f8-41e8-a480-d01fb10a36a3.jpg?v=1693107522"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c7ee3238-18f8-41e8-a480-d01fb10a36a3.jpg?v=1693107522","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Trinity Street, poems, by Jen Currin. A photo of a park bench at night, lit up by a light source off-camera. The light also hits the bright green grass surrounding the bench, and a tree on the far left side. Even the trunk appears illuminated in green from the grass reflecting light. Trees and bushes to the right of the bench appear in the shadows. Far in the distance, city lights are just barely visible.","id":23739188150331,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c7ee3238-18f8-41e8-a480-d01fb10a36a3.jpg?v=1693107522"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c7ee3238-18f8-41e8-a480-d01fb10a36a3.jpg?v=1693107522","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eHeartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, \u003cem\u003eTrinity Street\u003c\/em\u003e is the much-anticipated fifth collection from poet Jen Currin, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda finalist. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Trinity Street is in fact an actual street in Vancouver, it is also the site of an imaginary garden and imperfect utopia in the title poem of this new collection. Currin’s poems weave together the meditative and the disruptive, the queer and quotidian, and the worlds of the dead and the living. Connections are made through prayer and protest; friendships are forged on a planet challenged by climate crisis, collective grief, and the perils of late capitalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems vibrate with unexpected shifts and precise, startling imagery, the touchstones of a poet whose work critics have described as “thrilling,” “emotionally evocative,” and “revelatory.”\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Throughout all of their books, and especially in this new one, Currin’s sense of language is sure and wild, wild and sure.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Kazim Ali, author of Inquisition","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eSet against the moody wetness of the Pacific Northwest through its perambulations from Vancouver to Portland and back again, these poems contemplate the moon; a predatory State in collusion with “Princes of Melting Icecaps;” the often-unseen intimacy between architecture and animals; intergenerational trauma; dying salmon and structural dystopia; and conclude with what must be paramount in our minds in the present ecological crises: water and healing.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Mercedes Eng, author of Prison Industrial Complex Explodes","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJen Currin's poetry has won or been nominated for many awards including the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eQueer audiences will be particularly interested in Jen Currin's new work, which has always centered queer themes from sex and relationships to community activism. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the perspective of a decades-long community activist, this book looks back at a life spent fighting for justice and sits in the complex dissatisfaction of seeing only incremental change.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eWry, shrewd, and brassy … What Currin is after as a poet and in poetry is beyond an either\/or premise. … Moving and discovering poems.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Canthius","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eElegant and melodious poems … From transit rides to office tasks, Currin brews heady substance from quotidian routines.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eOh, the sensitive, careful language, each word picked full of colour and taste. 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Trinity Street
Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from acclaimed poet Jen Currin.
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{"id":7014714015803,"title":"Xanax Cowboy","handle":"xanax-cowboy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town. Her whiskey is mixed with vengeance like her mind is mixed with pills. The last doctor who told her she ain't nothin' is still spitting blood through a split lip. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-10-14T10:56:29-04:00","created_at":"2022-10-13T16:51:14-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult New Releases","Adult Poetry","By (author) Green Hannah","Feminist Reads","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2023-04-04"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":1999,"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":40874727178299,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011154","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Xanax Cowboy - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":218,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011154","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40874727604283,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011161","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Xanax Cowboy - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011161","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5d3132d4-f5cd-4c36-b6b7-8219f4892553.jpg?v=1693107743"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5d3132d4-f5cd-4c36-b6b7-8219f4892553.jpg?v=1693107743","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: House of Anansi presents Xanax Cowboy, poems, written and directed by Hannah Green. The cover is yellow, monochrome. The title text is large and black, and the font appears as though stamped with ink.","id":23739191722043,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5d3132d4-f5cd-4c36-b6b7-8219f4892553.jpg?v=1693107743"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5d3132d4-f5cd-4c36-b6b7-8219f4892553.jpg?v=1693107743","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town. Her whiskey is mixed with vengeance like her mind is mixed with pills. The last doctor who told her she ain't nothin' is still spitting blood through a split lip. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A long howl in cowboy boots that refuses to be wrangled, Xanax Cowboy is original and compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Andrew Faulkner, author of Heady Bloom","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eA fierce collection on cowboy boots and alienation, with incisive and insightful thoughts on navigating mental health, Hannah Green’s debut is all tooth and claw. It bristles, sears, and haunts. At once individual, and yet illuminating in the affective commons it articulates, Hannah has created a home here — come dwell.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Dallas Hunt, author of Creeland","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eXanax Cowboy is a meta-poetic romp that chews through the lexicons of pulp, pop, and academia, spitting out pieces that are at once campy, dark, and gnawingly tender, with a bravado and showmanship that challenge conventions of power, performance, gender, and genre. 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Xanax Cowboy
This edgy, often darkly comedic long poem considers the romanticization of addiction and mental illness via the romanticization of the Wild West.
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{"id":7014713917499,"title":"Chrysalis","handle":"chrysalis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA couple in a crumbling marriage faces divine intervention. A woman dies in her dreams again and again until she finds salvation in an unexpected source. A teenage misfit discovers a darkness lurking just beyond the borders of her suburban home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003cem\u003eChrysalis\u003c\/em\u003e, Anuja Varghese’s debut collection, are by turns poignant and chilling, blurring the lines between the real world and worlds beyond. 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Anuja Varghese’s surreal stories will take you places you'll never expect.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Saleema Nawaz, author of Songs for the End of the World","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eAnuja Varghese’s stories are cheekily feminist and textured, her characters unapologetically monstrous and ordinary. I loved how many of the stories begin with deceptive quiescence and then twist into the surreal and subversive. \u003cem\u003eChrysalis\u003c\/em\u003e was a joy to read!\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Farzana Doctor, Lambda Literary Award–winner and author of Seven","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eRuthless in its quest to leave readers both sweetly satisfied and ravenous for more, \u003cem\u003eChrysalis \u003c\/em\u003edisintegrates genre barriers with some of the most haunting, delicious, and emotionally resonant language I have ever read. This is the short story in all its craft mastery. Anuja Varghese is about to become a household name.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Sydney Hegele, author of The Pump","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eStories with South Asian characters navigating a world of microagressions or pushing back against cultural expectations. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMany locations are recognizably in and around Toronto. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClever stories with a twist, includes stories with elements of gothic horror and magical realism. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor fans of the CBC television show \u003cem\u003eSort Of\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes LBGTQ+-themed stories of sexual empowerment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eEvery piece in Chrysalis is as subtle and punchy as the eponymous final story. 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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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Colonel Parkinson in Charge
A writer’s witty and surprisingly optimistic account of learning to live with Parkinson’s disease.
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An entrancing novel about an exclusive wellness retreat on a remote Greek island hosted by a celebrity guru who is more than meets the eye.
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In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark
In his wildly ambitious and darkly funny debut novel, Jonathan Garfinkel probes the fractured nature of identity, the necessity of lies, and the bloody legacy of the Soviet Empire.
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The Private Apartments
Moving linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants — despite duty, discrimination, and an ever-dissolving link to a war-torn homeland.
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Michaud.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487005894","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Arachnide Editions","MetaKeywords":"page turner;grip lit;domestic thriller;quebecois;francophile;disappearance;thriller;edge of your seat;plot twists;unreliable narrator;identity","NumberOfPages":"416","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAnansi's edition of Michaud's \u003cem \u003eBack Roads\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eWith its focus on the aftermath of a violent tragedy on a family, \u003cem \u003eTrembling River\u003c\/em\u003e is reminiscent of popular fiction such as Celeste Ng’s \u003cem \u003eEverything I Never Told You\u003c\/em\u003e and Delia Owen’s \u003cem \u003eWhere the Crawdads Sing\u003c\/em\u003e, while still appealing to thriller fans.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect for fans of literary fiction, modern CanLit, works in translation, and Michaud's previous work.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eFrom internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. 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Trembling River
From internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a beguiling story of trauma and lost innocence.
