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The collection also includes moving tales grounded in painful and touching reality: a young deaf girl visits Niagara Falls before she goes blind; an elephant named Topsy is killed on Coney Island by Thomas Edison in 1903; and a woman learns the truth about her son’s disappearance while searching with her husband in the Canadian Rockies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis enchanting and, at times, heartbreaking debut collection of stories hails the arrival of an exceptional new literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:08:08-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:08:08-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Trunkey Laura","pub date: 2016-03-26"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"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":39403418320955,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898783","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Double Dutch - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898783","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413184528443,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898776","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Double Dutch - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":318,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898776","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413184954427,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770898790","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Double Dutch - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770898790","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_05849a96-fd2b-46a2-893a-f502c257d352.jpg?v=1678601372"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_05849a96-fd2b-46a2-893a-f502c257d352.jpg?v=1678601372","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561276987,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_05849a96-fd2b-46a2-893a-f502c257d352.jpg?v=1678601372"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_05849a96-fd2b-46a2-893a-f502c257d352.jpg?v=1678601372","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanuta Gleed Literary Award finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCity of Victoria Butler Book Prize finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntensely imaginative and darkly emotional, the weird and wonderful stories in \u003cem\u003eDouble Dutch\u003c\/em\u003e deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into strange worlds that are at once both familiar and uncanny — where animals are more human, and people more mysterious, than they first appear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShape-shifters, doppelgangers, and spirits inhabit the extraordinary worlds depicted in Trunkey’s stories: a single mother believes her toddler is the reincarnation of a terrorist; Ronald Reagan’s body double falls in love with the first lady; a man grieves for his wife after a bear takes over her body. The collection also includes moving tales grounded in painful and touching reality: a young deaf girl visits Niagara Falls before she goes blind; an elephant named Topsy is killed on Coney Island by Thomas Edison in 1903; and a woman learns the truth about her son’s disappearance while searching with her husband in the Canadian Rockies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis enchanting and, at times, heartbreaking debut collection of stories hails the arrival of an exceptional new literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The collection also includes moving tales grounded in painful and touching reality: a young deaf girl visits Niagara Falls before she goes blind; an elephant named Topsy is killed on Coney Island by Thomas Edison in 1903; and a woman learns the truth about her son’s disappearance while searching with her husband in the Canadian Rockies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis enchanting and, at times, heartbreaking debut collection of stories hails the arrival of an exceptional new literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770898783","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770898783\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Imprint":"Astoria","MetaKeywords":"short stories; thomas edison; alternating current; magical realism; fantastical; dying; ronald reagan; duality; urban; literary fiction; emotional; imagination; imaginative; doppelganger; Niagara Falls; duality; contemporary fiction; contemporary; reincarnation","NumberOfPages":"280","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Laura Trunkey and \u003cem\u003eDouble Dutch\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"…a confident debut collection…\" — \u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Beautifully bizarre … wickedly creative …these stories are strange and beautiful, imaginative and unafraid of emotion.\" — \u003cem\u003eW Dish Network\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"…accomplished excursions into the weird and offbeat.\" — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Elegant, deft, light of touch, and sometimes spicily comic …[This] debut story collection is a marvel of style and substance.\" — \u003cem\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"…clever and jaunty…\" — \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"…a suite of unexpected stories…Trunkey achieves a coherent marriage of elements in these tales: History, realism, and the mystical combine to strong and startling effect.\" — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Trunkey’s remarkable debut collection of stories, Double Dutch, circles life’s mysteries from unexpected vantage points in these plausibly fantastic stories. I can’t wait to see what she does next. If you enjoy Flannery O’Connor, Jennifer Egan (A Visit From the Goon Squad), Karen Russell (Swamplandia), or simply great writing that surprises and entertains, you will find something to love in these stories by a gifted young writer.\" — \u003cem\u003eIndies Introduce Pick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"…a confident debut collection…","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"Beautifully bizarre … wickedly creative …these stories are strange and beautiful, imaginative and unafraid of emotion.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"W Dish Network","OtherText_Review_2":"…accomplished excursions into the weird and offbeat.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_3":"Elegant, deft, light of touch, and sometimes spicily comic …[This] debut story collection is a marvel of style and substance.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_4":"…clever and jaunty…","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_5":"…a suite of unexpected stories…Trunkey achieves a coherent marriage of elements in these tales: History, realism, and the mystical combine to strong and startling effect.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Stories in Double Dutch deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into worlds that are at once both familiar and uncanny.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"City of Victoria Butler Book Prize","PrizeYear_0":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2016-03-26","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Stories in Double Dutch deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into worlds that are at once both familiar and uncanny."}
Double Dutch
Stories in Double Dutch deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into worlds that are at once both familiar and uncanny.
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Zalika Reid-Benta is a masterful storyteller with a light touch, a photographic recall, and a pitch-perfect ear for the ephemera we’d like to think of as youthful, but just can’t seem to shake. This is an unforgettable debut.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Paul Beatty","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Zalika Reid-Benta announces herself as an enormous voice for the coming decade (and one that is desperately needed). Not all must-read books are this enjoyable.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Gary Shteyngart","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Each story in Frying Plantain is achingly poignant, insightful, and funny; each a gem unto itself. Ms. Reid-Benta’s fully sympathetic protagonist, Kara Davis, is a girl who belongs to neither Canada nor Jamaica, despite the fact that both places are ‘home.’ Her family — loving, flawed, and wickedly at odds with one another — all demand her loyalty, and her loyal friends aren’t friends at all. As a collection, these stunning stories create a multi-faceted jewel of a book.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Src":"Binnie Kirshenbaum","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Zalika Reid-Benta’s first book — by turns effortless, vivid, funny, sad, and genuinely like being there — is as shiny as they come. Her spot-on capture of youthful aspiration, folly, and how family members tend to understand one another only in fragments make these stories a real pleasure — full of recognition, humour, and keenly observed lives in the here and now. Frying Plantain, a window into the world of growing upward and onward inside and outside family ties, is an absolute gem.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Janice Galloway","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN EXCITING EMERGING AUTHOR WITH STRONG CONNECTIONS IN THE U.S. AND CANADIAN LITERARY COMMUNITIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is Zalika Reid-Benta’s first published book, but she has already made a name for herself as a writer. The author has an M.F.A. from Columbia University, where she was mentored by Paul Beatty, author of the Booker Prize–winning novel \u003cem\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/em\u003e; Victor LaValle, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Changeling\u003c\/em\u003e; Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Scenic Route\u003c\/em\u003e; and Gary Shteyngart, author of \u003cem\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLake Success\u003c\/em\u003e. In Canada, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet George Elliott Clarke named her a “Writer to Watch.” At the Banff Writing Studio, she worked with Greg Hollingshead and Janice Galloway, and she became close to Caroline Adderson.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTRONG INTEREST IN STORIES ABOUT DIASPORA COMMUNITIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRecent hits such as David Chariandy’s \u003cem\u003eBrother\u003c\/em\u003e, Mohsin Hamid’s \u003cem\u003eExit West\u003c\/em\u003e, and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/em\u003e have shown that there is a strong interest in stories set among diaspora communities.\u003cem\u003e Frying Plantain\u003c\/em\u003e’s evocation of the Canadian Caribbean community is another strong contender in this field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eFrom “Pig Head”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e On my first visit to Jamaica I saw a pig’s severed head. My grandmother’s sister Auntie had asked me to grab two bottles of Ting from the icebox and when I walked into the kitchen and pulled up the icebox lid there it was, its blood splattered and frozen thick on the bottles beneath it, its brown tongue lolling out from between its clenched teeth, the tip making a small dip in the ice water.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e My cousins were in the next room so I clamped my palm over my mouth to keep from screaming. They were all my age or younger, and during the five days I’d already been in Hanover they’d all spoken easily about the chickens they strangled for soup and they’d idly thrown stones at alligators for sport, side-eyeing me when I was too afraid to join in. I wanted to avoid a repeat of those looks, so I bit down on my finger to push the scream back down my throat.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e Only two days before I’d squealed when Rodney, who was ten like me, had wrung a chicken’s neck without warning; the jerk of his hands and the quick snap of the bone had made me fall back against the coops behind me. He turned to me after I’d silenced myself and his mouth and nose were twisted up as if he was deciding whether he was irritated with me or contemptuous or just amused.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Ah wah?” he asked. “Yuh nuh cook soup in Canada?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Sure we do,” I said, my voice a mumble. “The chicken is just dead first.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e He didn’t respond, and he didn’t say anything about it in front of our other cousins, but soon after they all treated me with a newfound delicacy. When the girls played Dandy Shandy with their friends they stopped asking me to be in the middle and when all of them climbed trees to pluck ripe mangoes, they no longer hung, loose-limbed, from the branches and tried to convince me to clamber up and join them. For the first three days of my visit, they’d at least tease me, broad smiles stretching their cheeks, and yell down, “This tree frighten yuh like how duppy frighten yuh?” Then they’d let leaves fall from their hands onto my hair and laugh when I tried to pick them out of my plaits. I’d fuss and grumble, piqued at the taunting but grateful for the inclusion, for being thought tough enough to handle the same mockery they inflicted on each other. But after the chicken, they didn’t goad me anymore and they only approached me for games like tag, for games they thought Canadian girls could stomach.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“What’s taking you so long?” My mother came up behind me and instead of waiting for me to answer, leaned forward and peered into the icebox, swallowing hard as she did. “Great,” she whispered. “Are you going to be traumatized by this?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I didn’t quite know what she meant — but I felt like the right answer was no, so I shook my head. My mother was like my cousins. I hadn’t seen her butcher any animals, but back home she stepped on spiders without flinching, she cussed out men who tried to reach for her in the street, and I couldn’t bear her scoffing at me for screaming at a pig’s head.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Eloise!” Nana called. My grandmother came into the kitchen from the backyard and stood next to us, her hands on her hips. The deep arch in her back made her breasts and belly protrude, and the way she stood with her legs apart reminded me of a pigeon.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I hear Auntie call out she want a drink from the fridge. That there is the freezer yuh nuh want that. Yuh know wah Bredda put in there? Kara canna see that, she nuh raise up for it.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I closed the lid,” said my mother. “Anyway, it was a pig’s head. It’s not like she saw the pig get slaughtered. She’s fine.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Kara’s a soft one. She canna handle these things.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I felt my mother take a deep breath in and I suddenly became aware of all the exposed knives in the kitchen and wondered if there was any way I could hide them without being noticed. We were only here for ten days and my mother and Nana had already gotten into two fights — one in the airport on the day we landed, the other two nights after — and Auntie had threatened to set the dogs on them if they didn’t calm down.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Mi thought Canada was supposed fi be a civilized place, how yuh two fight like the dogs them? Cha.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I wondered if all daughters fought with their mothers this way when they grew up and started to tear up just thinking about it. Nana looked at me.\u003cbr\/\u003e “See? She ah cry about the head.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “It’s not about the head,” said my mother. “She just cries over anything.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Like I say. She a soft chile.” \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Frying Plantain . . . brims with wit and compassion.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"Reid-Benta is a natural storyteller . . . This splendid collection marks her as a writer to watch.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_2":"These stories are readable and relatable. They hit the sweet spot between having something to say and still being the kind of read you can immerse yourself in, a rare combination.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"Frying Plantain deftly chips away at white dismissals of privilege, obscuring the lines between short story and novel . . . It documents a unique and complex cultural space that’s under threat, while acknowledging the challenges of living a hyphenated life. It reminds us that individuals remain bound to their cultural experience — their quirks and fixations stubbornly wrapped up as metaphorical leftovers.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_4":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_5":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_6":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeCode_3":"02","PrizeCode_4":"02","PrizeCode_5":"05","PrizeCode_6":"03","PrizeName_0":"Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_2":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_3":"Trillium Book Award","PrizeName_4":"Forest of Reading Evergreen Award","PrizeName_5":"Toronto Book Awards","PrizeName_6":"A CBC Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2020","PrizeYear_2":"2019","PrizeYear_3":"2019","PrizeYear_4":"2019","PrizeYear_6":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-06-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.
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Bill Gaston crafts these short fictions around the idea of the gargoyle — the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions.
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Glorious Frazzled Beings
In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home.
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This isn’t out of a desire to play coy, but rather an admission that problems involving relationships don’t have easy resolutions that can be clearly expressed.","OtherText_Review_10":"Coady’s Giller-winning book of stories ranges wildly in style and content, but taken as a whole is an ideal introduction to one of Canada’s finest writers.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Jared Bland","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_11":"A damned good read.","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Lori Hahnel","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Alberta Views","OtherText_Review_12":"\u003cp\u003eCoady’s collection is … a riddle that never arrives at an answer, offering pleasure in the discomfort of people at cross-purposes; a kind of messy realism that can be both rewarding and, at times, challenging in its hesitance to give a reader certainty.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Room Magazine","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Alex Good","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"Since 1998’s Strange Heaven, her Governor General’s Award–nominated debut novel, Coady has harmonized humour and heart in prose that rings true. Hellgoing provides another reminder that her use of wit is consummate, and her regard for the reader is gracious.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"David Chau","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_3":"Brilliant collection of short stories.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Dana Medoro","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"Hellgoing is hell going…Coady is a muscular writer, who drives us right smack into the situation her characters are experiencing … Coady’s stories are not about commonalities as such. They are unique.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Jennifer Hunter","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_5":"Hellgoing is a superb collection, end to end, and easily one of the best books I’ve read so far in 2013.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Michael Hingston","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_6":"Toting their trauma, Coady’s characters repel these attacks from fathers, doctors,\r\nlovers and the legion of others that ‘know best’ by learning “to hurt and insult him as\r\neffortlessly as he did me.” This rebellion lets Coady’s wicked wit shine, and while compassion\r\nfrom the reader is complicated by this attitude, Coady always delivers a knockout punch at\r\nthe end of each story,“ like picking at your cuticles and being surprised when they start to\r\nache and bleed.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Mike Landry","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Telegraph-Journal's Salon Magazine","OtherText_Review_7":"One of the hallmarks of Lynn Coady's work is her shrewd examination of the underexplored byways of human psychology.\r\n\r\nCoady is a writer who increasingly commands attention and respect","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Jeet Heer","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"It is the author's demonstrable strength as an ironist that prevents these stories- and these characters from appearing completely hopeless.\r\n\r\n[Coady's] sharp sense of humour serves to humanize even the most vicious or clueless figures in the book. 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Hellgoing
Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Coady gives us nine new stories, each grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.
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{"id":6983133429819,"title":"Her First Palestinian","handle":"her-first-palestinian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSaeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-09-13T13:43:33-04:00","created_at":"2022-09-13T13:37:47-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Teebi Saeed","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2022-08-02"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40780122062907,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010874","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Her First Palestinian - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":250,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487010874","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40780122161211,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010881","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Her First Palestinian - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010881","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487010874.jpg?v=1705329728"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487010874.jpg?v=1705329728","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Her First Palestinian and Other Stories by Saeed Teebi. 'Intelligent, original and bursting with vitality' - Ayelet Tsabari, Author of The Art of Leaving. A soft yellow background with an small orange, unpeeled with the peel spiraling to its right.","id":24105733357627,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487010874.jpg?v=1705329728"},"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487010874.jpg?v=1705329728","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSaeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Almost friendly as they tell you of themselves, their history, and the personal and societal roads they have to take. However, their wound is always internal, hidden under their agency, prosperity, and the most basic human need of them all: belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Danny Ramadan, author of The Foghorn Echoes","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eA gorgeous debut collection of short stories so complex and rich they make me think that Saeed Teebi has been writing for many years. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Hasan Namir, author of God in Pink","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful collection not only brings to light the varied and sometimes fraught experiences of diasporic Palestinians but does so with masterful storytelling. These stories are rich and deep, with elegant, tragic, or funny twists that will stay in my mind for a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Farzana Doctor, author of Seven","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eSaeed Teebi's \u003cem\u003eHer First Palestinian\u003c\/em\u003e is an exciting contribution to contemporary Palestinian diaspora literature. His characters grapple with overzealous allies, privilege, and polite discrimination, as well as forging new identities without quite managing to shed inherited ones. With sharp wit and humour, Teebi delivers a range of stories that are pleasingly new as they reverberate familiar themes of loss and triumph. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Sahar Mustafah, author of The Beauty of Your Face","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003eSaeed Teebi writes with Chekhovian intentionality and Nabokovian rumination. These are stories about modesty or vanity, kindness or treachery, timidity or wit. In the author’s intelligent grasp we find a heartbreaking tenacity for connection to the here and now and to the land between the river and the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Nyla Matuk, author of Stranger","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003eDispatches from the state of exile, these stories are filled with delightful, devastating turns as Teebi explores the endless fracturing of displacement.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Rebecca Sacks, author of City of a Thousand Gates","OtherText_Accolades_7":"\u003cp\u003eSaeed Teebi’s \u003cem \u003eHer First Palestinian\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful and propulsive debut collection of stories that dramatizes the experiences of the Palestinian diaspora. Compelling and complex characters displaced and removed from their historical homeland negotiate feelings of loss, estrangement, and complicity in Canada. Skillfully written with penetrating insight into the characters’ fractured identities, this book reveals a talented new Canadian voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_7_Auth":"Jury Citation, Danuta Gleed Literary Award","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe author's short story “Her First Palestinian” was shortlisted for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis collection is a much-needed contribution documenting Palestinian issues and culture in the North American diaspora.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe author wrote these stories in one year during the COVID pandemic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eSometimes a writer comes along whose stories are not only complex and full and exquisitely written, but whose vision and political voice feels necessary. In \u003cem\u003eHer First Palestinian\u003c\/em\u003e, Saeed Teebi coaxes the reader in a certain direction, and then flips the narrative so that now we are complicit, and we see our own guilt in the great divide that exists between the privileged and the stranger. Teebi does this with subtle humour and a wry tone. He does not preach, yet his writing expresses a certain fervour that is essential. 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Teebi’s prose is crisp and calmly civilized.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eIf humanising Palestinians without purposefully tugging on heartstrings is what Teebi set out to do, he has accomplished his goal with aplomb. His stories — original, intelligent and finely nuanced — present characters who, although vastly different, are united in a uniquely Palestinian form of loneliness, one that stems from feeling out of place in a world that sees them as a nuisance.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The National News","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eEach story in Teebi’s collection crackles with wit, intensity and elegance … A probing and absolutely unforgettable book. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003eA deeply moving collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eHer First Palestinian\u003c\/em\u003e is a layered, fully imagined work of fiction: probing, sure of itself, astounded by life’s cruelties and surprising joys and by its ironies large and small.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003eWith intriguing plot-lines, nuanced characters and stunning prose … \u003cem\u003eHer First Palestinian \u003c\/em\u003eis an invitation to read the room and engage critically as conversations about Palestine, familial and romantic relationships, and moral conflicts permeate the walls.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Maisonneuve","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003eCutting against this grain, Teebi’s storytelling brings to life the unique experiences of Palestinians, powerfully highlighting their humanity, personhood and agency, as well as their colonial dispossession. … \u003cem \u003eHer First Palestinian\u003c\/em\u003e offers a richer understanding of the world through Palestinian eyes and inspires a greater appreciation of the diverse people who now reside in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Montreal Serai","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e[Teebi’s] prose, wit and humour guide the reader on a journey through nine unusual takes on life within the Palestinian diaspora, as well as providing glimpses into the family lives and rich culture of its members.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Oakville News","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Nominated","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Runner-up","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"07","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"02","PrizeName_0":"Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_1":"Forest of Reading Evergreen Award","PrizeName_2":"Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award","PrizeName_3":"Writers' Union of Canada Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeYear_0":"2022","PrizeYear_1":"2023","PrizeYear_2":"2023","PrizeYear_3":"2022","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2022-08-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Her First Palestinian
Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.
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Like This
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Like This takes you inside small-town Nova Scotia to expose the troubles that lie at its heart.
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Midsummer Night in the Workhouse
A new selection of Diana Athill’s beautifully written and perceptive short stories.
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No Stars in the Sky
A new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz.
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His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eBest Canadian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLifted Brow\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEVENT\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaisonneuve\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He currently teaches creative writing to children in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Evans, Christopher (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e The president of a holistic dog food company is haunted by a pop song from her past. Nine siblings band together to raise themselves after parental abandonment. A domestic argument reveals a woman’s supernatural gift. A failing musician finds his calling soundtracking another man’s life. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e Christopher Evans's stories are people with strays — those who fall for the allure of nostalgia, grapple with male fragility, deny family trauma, and acquiesce to authority. For these characters, resignation and reinvention are only a breath apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eNothing Could Be Further from the Truth \u003c\/em\u003eis a bold debut collection that sits at the threshold of expectation and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487010331","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487010331\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"7","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Astoria","MetaKeywords":"Michael Melgaard;Pallbearing;Astoria;Christy Ann Conlin;nightmare;surreal","NumberOfPages":"248","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eIn crisp, forthright prose, Christopher Evans’s clear-eyed and compassionate collection of stories documents a present (and near future) that is both utterly bizarre and ambiguously hopeful. This is exactly what we need to be reading.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Carleigh Baker, author of Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize finalist Bad Endings","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eChristopher Evans’s stories fracture the mundane to reveal a bedrock of absurdity. Like Donald Barthelme, Evans brandishes humour in the face of reality, both defamiliarizing and helping us see more clearly the familiar emotional lives of his characters. These stories will make you laugh — until you notice your reflection peeking out between the pages.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of Vanishing Monuments and Junebat","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eEvans’s stories are littered with characters who are under the impression they are normal people. They are horribly, tragically mistaken . . . a perfect depiction of human nature. These stories are hilarious, strange, and touching. At their root, they are an exploration of the deep sadness of modern existence, which can only be conveyed through an equally deep humour.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Jen Neale, author of Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize finalist Land Mammals and Sea Creatures","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eUncanny in their capture of the anxiety of our times, these stories buzz with urgency, sting with humour, and probe a beguiling dream state: the absurdity and audacity of being human.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Nancy Lee, author of VanCity Book Prize winner The Age","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003cem\u003eNothing Could Be Further from the Truth\u003c\/em\u003e jangle with quiet urgency as their discontented protagonists grope for connection with each other and yearn for some small measure of fulfillment. 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This is a wonderful collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Michael Melgaard, author of Pallbearing","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eChristopher Evans has received wide support in the Canadian literary community for this book, including from authors Zoe Whittall, Jen Sookfong Lee, and Madeleine Thien.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eHe’s a highly respected author whose fiction has been a finalist for the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe collection already has blurbs from Carleigh Baker, Jen Neale, John Elizabeth Stintzi, and Nancy Lee.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eAstoria is the premiere imprint for Canadian short fiction.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\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":"\u003cp\u003eEvans is adept at identifying the disconnect that exists between reality and people’s individual perceptions of their world … Evans builds his entertaining stories upon a mixture of relatable ordinary life experiences and his characters’ personal viewpoints. This draws in readers as the stories in \u003cem \u003eNothing Could Be Further from the Truth \u003c\/em\u003ereflect our lives and the crazy world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a wonderful collection from a sure-footed writer with a great ear for dialogue. Meticulously observed, the stories illustrate how ordinary life often thrums with mysterious, elusive truths just waiting to be grasped, if only we are brave enough.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eIn his relentlessly entertaining debut collection, Christopher Evans presents a series of arch depictions of what it means to be imperfectly human and vulnerable in a troubling and troublesome modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eThe stories of Christopher Evans’s accomplished first book read as confident and effortless; they’re assured and mature, as though sprung fully-formed from the proverbial shell … Presented by a surefooted writer, the gallery of characters in \u003cem\u003eNothing Could Be Further from the Truth\u003c\/em\u003e fascinates. Under Evans’s capable hands squabbling couples, disgruntled teens, and lovers with stricken hearts command attention as they reach and stumble and reach once again for happiness, contentment, love, or an untroubled sense that everything is running smoothly at last.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Ormsby Review","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eEvans excels at succinct portraiture, saying a lot with a little in brief, intriguingly premised stories … A refreshingly different debut collection from a writer to watch.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Library Journal","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003eIn stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2022-02-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003eIn stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth
In stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887842955","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781487007348","AlsoRecommendedISBN_5":"9781770894693","BASICMainSubject":"FIC066000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Small Town \u0026 Rural","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMÉIRA COOK\u003c\/strong\u003e is the award-winning author of the novels \u003cem\u003eOnce More With Feeling\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe House on Sugarbush Road\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award; and \u003cem\u003eNightwatching\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. She has also published five poetry collections, most recently \u003cem\u003eMonologue Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and for the 2016 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. She has won the CBC Poetry Prize and the inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize. 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She has also published five poetry collections, most recently \u003cem\u003eMonologue Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and for the 2016 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. She has won the CBC Poetry Prize and the inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize. She has served as Writer in Residence at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, and the Winnipeg Public Library. 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Vital and vivid characters spring from the page, grab your heart, and won’t let go.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Terry Fallis, Two-Time Winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Brimming with warmth and a wry, often surrealistic sense of humour, Cook’s vibrant narrative delves beneath the tenuous surfaces of the everyday, asking us to re-examine the ways in which we see ourselves and understand the world.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Kerry Lee Powell, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe novel is a departure from her previous works, both of which were set in South Africa, her home country. 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Miss Leonard volunteered all her free time to the Mission and consequently had a proprietary attitude. She called everyone folks: the old timers sipping coffee and playing checkers in the dining room, the born-agains who came for breakfast and stayed for Christ, the teenage boys with their wire hanger shoulder blades angling through their “Born to Rock” T-shirts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes a woman would sidle or shuffle or strut into the Mission, her gait keeping pace with her disposition; the coin tosses of bravado or despondency that saw her through her days. Singly, or in spindly little groups, the women would wait in line at the lunch counter, their hunger for food or companionship rendering them bold. And they were folks, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive or six men were idling outside the Mission when Annunciata arrived, a thin brown girl clutching at the balloon-string of her occasional buoyancy. The snow had finally rotted away, winter rushing through the gutters and gurgling down the drains. A couple of the men were smoking, coaxing a last puff from their burnt-down cigarettes, holding each breath until their eyes bulged. The Mission opened its doors to the city’s jobless, the street people, the panhandlers, the squeegee kids, the homeless ones, although once, when Annunciata had wondered aloud at these poor doorstep ghosts, the Senior Admin. had corrected her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We don’t say homeless here, Anna. We say ‘persons experiencing homelessness.’” Senior Admin. was a stocky girl with a permanent furrow above her brow. A little asterisk in the arid homelessness of her face, although what it bore witness to, Annunciata couldn’t exactly say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Experiencing homelessness” was meant to convey the temporariness of the condition, the vagrant hope that poverty was merely a refugee camp on the way to permanent citizenship. A waystation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Morning, Isaac, Donny, Bodo,” Annunciata called, stepping through the men who obligingly allowed her passage, sucking back their smoke and paddling at the air in front of them. “Morning, Nachos and Mr. Wilson.” Weary of being told what not to call the Mission people, Annunciata had decided to learn as many names as she could and use them accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Morning Mr… Um.” His name wasn’t really Um but the old fellow was uncooperative when asked, and Mr. Um was the best she could do. Annunciata thought that perhaps he was secretive about his name because it was the only thing he owned. On the other hand, maybe he’d just forgotten it—drink did that to a fellow, and crack, and the dog-eyed loneliness that eats its own paws. His eyes were yellowish and his few remaining teeth were grayish. He never smiled and seldom spoke, but when he was hungry he rapped out a shave and a shoeshine on the metal shutters of the kitchen window, and when he was feeling perky he did a soft shoe shuffle in the dust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnunciata stopped to watch and applaud. “Bravo!” she clapped. Mr. Um made jazz hands and blew her a purposeful kiss. He had a heavy, stumbling gait but a perfect pitch for imaginary music. “Nice weather we’re having,” Annunciata replied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pizza, chicken,” he confided. Something like that. But Annunciata thought he said “pizza,” and then some other kind of food. Possibly chicken. It was going on nine and she had to hustle to report for kitchen duty. So did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Heavens, child, I’m glad we’re not waiting for you to make any big announcements,” said Miss Leonard when Annunciata came into the kitchen shrugging off her jacket and tying an apron around her waist. She meant the miracle of the Lord’s birth which, if she was an angel, Annunciata would have been in charge of. Sometimes Miss Leonard said, “Hallelujah, young lady!” and sometimes just, “Hurry, you!” but it was always to do with Annunciata being half a minute behindhand and two thousand years too late.\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\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eHorn Book\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Meira Cook . . . writes prose so fluid, so effortless, so vivid, you’re swept away on its sheer beauty and power. . . . Once More With Feeling manages to be both sharp and tender, tragic and fiercely funny, and wholly satisfying.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A look at the interconnected lives in one small prairie city, and how their relationships evolve over the course of a year.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeName_0":"Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award","PrizeName_1":"The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction","PrizeName_2":"McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award","PrizeYear_0":"2017","PrizeYear_1":"2017","PrizeYear_2":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-09-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A look at the interconnected lives in one small prairie city, and how their relationships evolve over the course of a year.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Once More with Feeling
A look at the interconnected lives in one small prairie city, and how their relationships evolve over the course of a year.
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Lisa Moore splices moments together so vividly, you'll swear you've lived them yourself.
