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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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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_Long_description_1":"\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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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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Pallbearing
An honest and unaffected collection of human experiences that deftly tackles themes of grief, loss, missed opportunities, and the pain of letting go.
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Peacocks of Instagram
Engrossing, witty yet devastating stories about diasporic Indians that deftly question what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.
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Planet Earth
International award–winning stories of life and love in the midst of planetary decline
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{"id":6582760341563,"title":"Shooting the Bitch","handle":"shooting-the-bitch","description":"\u003cp\u003eShort, sharp, and unexpectedly disturbing, “Shooting the Bitch” is the award-winning story from newcomer Nicole Chin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile doing chores with his father on a summer afternoon, a young boy is asked to take care of a lingering problem in their household. Set in rural Ottawa, “Shooting the Bitch” reveals the nature of a boy's relationship with his parents and the divisions that run through their family.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:50-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:14:50-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Anansi Digital","By (author) Chin Nicole","pub date: 2013-09-13"],"price":99,"price_min":99,"price_max":99,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403468914747,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894853","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Shooting the Bitch - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":99,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770894853","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":39413728444475,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897571","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Shooting the Bitch - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":99,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897571","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fe583175-2e3a-4281-a236-fef90b1cb86f.jpg?v=1723949362"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fe583175-2e3a-4281-a236-fef90b1cb86f.jpg?v=1723949362","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24743101595707,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fe583175-2e3a-4281-a236-fef90b1cb86f.jpg?v=1723949362"},"aspect_ratio":0.625,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fe583175-2e3a-4281-a236-fef90b1cb86f.jpg?v=1723949362","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eShort, sharp, and unexpectedly disturbing, “Shooting the Bitch” is the award-winning story from newcomer Nicole Chin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile doing chores with his father on a summer afternoon, a young boy is asked to take care of a lingering problem in their household. Set in rural Ottawa, “Shooting the Bitch” reveals the nature of a boy's relationship with his parents and the divisions that run through their family.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Shooting the Bitch
Short, sharp, and unexpectedly disturbing, “Shooting the Bitch” is the award-winning story from newcomer Nicole Chin.
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{"id":6817704837179,"title":"Signs and Wonders","handle":"signs-and-wonders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA New York Times Editors' Choice and an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant new collection, Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize nominee Alix Ohlin skillfully displays the full range of human emotions through the subtly powerful dramas of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"You Are What You Like\" a young couple finds their life derailed by the arrival of a hard-partying old friend. In \"Robbing the Cradle\" Lisette does everything she can to give her husband a baby, committing an act of desperation. In \"The Idea Man\" Beth, a divorcee, falls in love with a man who lies for fun. 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Signs and Wonders
From a talented young writer comes sixteen stories about the the connections between us all.
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February was named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year and it won CBC's Canada Reads competition. Caught was a finalist for many significant Canadian awards and is now a major television series starring Allan Hawco. 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I’m here with a conference of twenty thousand librarians from all over North America, two weeks after the Pulse massacre. It’s very early; I’m jogging around two big, olive-coloured ponds and not a breath of wind, an empty eight-lane highway between the ponds and I’m on the median.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lizard skitters over the curb and across the highway. It goes in fast-forward but there are glitches. Stops. Goes, stops. Darts. A jellied quivering. The long thin body is still, but the legs. You can’t even see the legs in the bald light. Just a blur of motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are squiggles of fluorescent spray-paint here and there on the sidewalk in pink, orange, and lime. They’re construction directives, targets for jackhammers, indicating the location of water or sewage pipes beneath the concrete, positions for embedded spigots, underground tunnels for workers and who knows what else — bog people, muskets, cannonballs, arrowheads. I took two planes to get here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrlando was retrieved from the swamp by a wily entrepreneur who set up dummy companies to purchase the land cheap. A hundred thousand people work in the theme parks here, vomiting in their oversized cartoon-costume heads because you aren’t allowed to vomit in a theme park. It’s hot in those cartoon heads. You aren’t even allowed to die of heat prostration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople who die on the parks’ premises are secreted away, whisked from the grounds in unmarked cars and why not? Why not have a zone that death can’t in infiltrate? It costs fabulously to squeeze into these crowds, to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course you offer life without death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou offer furry animals that speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I’m coming around the second pond the sprayers come on and shuffle out sheets of recollected water, the sign says. Water that I don’t want to touch my bare skin because who knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s not true that the wily entrepreneur is cryogenically preserved. That’s an urban legend. People say just his head in a murky aquarium: mouth open, the lower lip looking grey and nibbled, deteriorating despite the formaldehyde, like he’s developed a cold sore, and a five o’clock shadow, because hair still grows in death. Sometimes the head burps and a wobbling bubble escapes a corner of the mouth. A fold-encrusted eyelid utters. But that is just the underwater air infiltration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis place is where the GoFundMe stage-four cancer children come to fulfill a bucket list. The parks around here specialize in reconstituting hearts — break ’em, put ’em back together. The white beluga in the aquarium will do it for you, all by itself. Defibrillate your soul. The ghostly mammal emerges from the murk, tail dragging because of a low-grade fugue.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[A] testimony to her absolute mastery of technique . . . Without question, Moore is a writer of great social conscience and compassion.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"In Moore’s most diverse and powerful collection yet, each story has a role to play in highlighting the most fascinating hidden aspects of our everyday lives.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Life","OtherText_Review_2":"Moore takes her characters to some undeniably dark places in these stories, though the book is never entirely devoid of humour or hope. And there is abiding joy in the prose, which is lithe and tensile in equal measure. There is astonishment here, and grit, and beauty that is close to breathtaking.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"Lisa Moore brings a particular wizardry to whatever she touches, but her command of the short story is such that when she bends its rules, we look at old ideas in new ways . . . The stories in Something for Everyone are like prizes in pass-the-parcel. They tie up neatly, but they’re loose enough so that when you move the package, the corner edge tears, and the wrapping opens up like a hole in a pair of nylons, and you realize there are a lot more layers underneath that need to be peeled back and teased apart.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Overcast","OtherText_Review_4":"The stories in Lisa Moore’s collection, Something for Everyone, pulsate with raw energy and a fierce, searching intelligence. In a series of unconventional tales that explode off the page, Moore ushers her reader into a familiar but fractured and anything-but-straightforward reality. Lisa Moore writes of quotidian lives in crisis. Her characters’ anxieties mirror our own: family, love, employment, finances. But from these commonplace lives she conjures spellbinding mini-dramas, drawing us in from each story’s opening line, generating great suspense and fully engaging our sympathies. Throughout, the writing is vibrant, uninhibited and packed with sensual detail. Moore acknowledges the beauty of nature and the human capacity for kindness; she is no stranger to the essential comedy of the human condition. But never does she shy away from the dark undercurrents of her characters’ lives. Something for Everyone is an important book by a major talent working at the height of her considerable powers, an author who isn’t afraid to stretch the boundaries of her art and who pursues her singular aesthetic vision in an uncompromising and wildly entertaining manner.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Jury Citation","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeName_0":"Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award","PrizeName_1":"Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction","PrizeName_2":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_3":"A Globe and Mail Book of the Year","PrizeName_4":"A Quill \u0026amp; Quire Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","PrizeYear_2":"2018","PrizeYear_3":"2018","PrizeYear_4":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-09-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Something for Everyone
Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.
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In “Peptide P,” scientists study a disease that seems to affect children after they eat hotdogs. In “Side Effects,” a woman’s personality is altered, and not necessarily for the better, by botox injections. 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These stories are luminous. They capture light. They cast sharp shadows. They take root in your heart. I have never read stories like these, and I long to read more. Rare specimens, indeed.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJessica Grant, author of Come, Thou Tortoise, winner of the Amazon First Novel Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Jessica Grant, author of Come Thou, Tortoise, winner of the Amazon First Novel Award","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“…it’s the singularity of her point of view (the lines, edges and details, the wideness and wildness of her premises) that exalts these stories…A collection of beauty, light, colour, curios, permitting readers access into worlds that are usually unexamined, those wild spaces in between.” — \u003cstrong\u003eKerry Clare, \u003cem\u003ePickle Me This blog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10":"\u003cp\u003e“these immensely readable stories demonstrate that we do have imagination, we do have a sense of humour” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003e“Kovalyova’s an accessible, gifted and animated storyteller — inventive, comic, insightful, fresh and always curious.” — \u003cstrong\u003eBrett Josef Grubisic, \u003cem\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Brett Josef Grubisic","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_12":"\u003cp\u003e“The influence of Russian writers shines on every page …a technical marvel” — \u003cstrong\u003eGenna Buck, \u003cem\u003eMaclean’s Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Auth":"Genna Buck","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Maclean’s Magazine","OtherText_Review_13":"\u003cp\u003e“Kovalyova's marvellous collection delivers, with stories skirting the genres of sci-fi, suspense, historical fiction, and more.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e49th shelf Summer Reading Recommendations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"49th shelf Summer Reading Recommendations","OtherText_Review_14":"\u003cp\u003e“It will surprise no one that Specimen…is as intelligent and “highly original” as its flyleaf proclaims. But it might surprise some that these stories are, well, softhearted, relying as much on qualitative emotional connects as they do on data…there’s no story in this wonderful collection that isn’t engrossing.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_15":"\u003cp\u003e“...a debut collection that successfully and gracefully bridges the divide between the worlds of art and science.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_16":"\u003cp\u003e“...Kovalyova’s stories remain large-hearted and generous toward their characters as they struggle to make sense of the strange worlds around them.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_17":"\u003cp\u003e“Diverse in setting and form, these nine stories, long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, contrast the scientific understanding of genetics with deeper wisdom about the bonds of love and family.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Foster, \u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Rebecca Foster","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Kerry Clare","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Pickle Me This blog","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“[Irina Kovalyova] is a great storyteller – astonishingly skilled at both traditional and experimental narrative. The writing is immediate, bold, and original. Lean, powerful dialogue.” — \u003cstrong\u003eCarla Gillis, \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Carla Gillis","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Throughout Specimen, Kovalyova pushes boundaries, going beyond “routine procedures.” She offers readers a glimpse through a literary microscope, and into our own dark spaces.” — \u003cstrong\u003eTraci Skuce, \u003cem\u003eCoastal Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Traci Skuce","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Coastal Spectator","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“… such a varied collection testifies to a roaming imagination and willingness to push the boundaries of form and technique.” — \u003cstrong\u003eSteven Beattie, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Steven Beattie","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Specimen deserves an attentive readership. Don’t let anyone tell you Kovalyova is a scientist — she is a humanist dreamer with a science day job.” — \u003cstrong\u003eAndre Van Loon, \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Andre Van Loon","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Like her, many of Kovalyova’s characters are scientists, and she equips them with language that is both rigorous and beautiful; …original, odd, and compelling mix of sci-fi–flavoured literature” — \u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Croll, \u003cem\u003eGeorgia Straight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Jennifer Croll","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“Specimen combines the fresh perspective of a writer beginning her career with the confidence and impact of a veteran author.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“whip-smart debut story collection” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetro, Bookworm Column\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Metro, Bookworm Column","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“I love it when impressive new work by a debut writer takes me by surprise. That’s how I experienced this series of fascinating short stories by Irina Kovalyova… Don’t assume that these stylistic innovations or the scientific nature of the content take away from the work’s emotional power. Kovalyova’s taut prose – not a word is wasted – tells stories about fear, ambition and love…there's no doubt great things are coming from this writer. Watch out for her.” — \u003cstrong\u003eSusan G. Cole, \u003cem\u003eNOW\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Susan G. 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It is a collection that thrums with that undeniable heart and energy, no matter where the stories land or lead.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Kevin Hardcastle, author of In the Cage","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA STRIKINGLY ACCOMPLISHED DEBUT COLLECTION FROM AN AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\r\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eErin Frances Fisher has won numerous awards for her short fiction, including the RBC Writers’ Trust of Canada Bronwen Wallace Emerging Writers Award. The stories in this collection are told in a wide range of settings and voices — each story is so robust and so fully realized that any of them feel like they could be the start of a novel. Readers and reviewers will no doubt be impressed with Fisher’s imagination, research, craft, and the quality of her prose.\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e\\r\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE THEME OF THE COLLECTION IS PROGRESS:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\r\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe theme of “progress” is central to the collection and is subtly woven in through both plot and setting. In the American West, progress is reflected in the new settlements and digging for gold. In the far North, miners dig for earth’s natural resources. In the futurist story, “That Tiny Life,” the main characters are at an outpost in Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, mining for resources that have been stripped from Earth. 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He runs his forefinger along the tourniquet around Roy’s leg, rubs the pus between his fingertips and thumb, sniffs the lot, and says he’s taking Roy’s leg.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Like shit you are,” I say. “What’s he left with it gone?”\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sawbones pushes his specs up his disjointed nose and says that if he leaves the leg attached, Roy’ll be gone. Roy’s girl, just three, explores her mouth with her fingers. Her eyes big and gold as coins. She squats in the dirt in front of some thorny shrubs, a whelp in piss-stained trousers, the night growing fathomless above the hills behind her.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGirl’s new with us. Roy fetched her from the mother less than a week back. Don’t know why he picked her up when he did, since, one, he knew the child’s age from the letter, and two, he already had that crushed toe sending stripes up his foot.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sawbones’ specs shine flat-lensed in the light from the firepit. I suspect they don’t so much alter his vision as give him a look. He bends over Roy, who’s laid flaccid under the cactus. Roy’s hair and skin and clothes are tacky with basin dust. The firelight blinks over his silhouette, pretties his discoloured leg and cracked lips. His cocky flip of curls thrown back from his ridged nose and cheeks and spread over the dirt. His eyes closed. Been passed out a while. I grab his good foot and jostle and release.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Might go anyway,” I say.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sawbones rocks on his haunches, eyeing the mule I promised him for the trip. One of a pair. Sorrel, sturdy—three hands short of draft—and recently acquired, though Roy and I have been hauling supplies through the valley good on seven years. That’s seven years of spiny fruit and sunburn while carting basics to men batshit enough to have settled this particular desolation. Brutes searching gold, coal, oil midst the saltbush and boulders. The work gives Roy and me a nice, healthful pay, but only because not many want the job. Heat’s hard on the mules and water takes up half the wagon.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe girl pulls her fingers from her mouth and wipes them across her shirt. Sawbones removes his specs, holds the lenses to the light, then plucks his hanky from his coat and polishes. His kerchief’s done-up old style—stitched around the trim with cream dashes—same era as the jacket, which has buttons top to bottom, but hangs wide open. Plush fabric, carpet-like, worn thin down the back. Like he’s spent his life sitting. He settles his specs back on that crooked nose and loops the wires around his ears.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoy, flat-out, chest hardly lifting each breath. I put a hand on my lips and jaw. All the grit there, in the lines and loose skin—the valley sucks away fat. Seems to have aged twenty years though it’s only been those seven, and we were both young men when we acquired the route. He and I been partners too long now to know who owes who—though I suspect at this moment it’s him who owes me. We have a friendship. Which is why I said nothing when Roy kept the girl.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI recline against the wagon and set a knuckle to the forehead of the nearest mule, and the mule leans into it. Soft-nosed beast. “Take the leg then,” I say.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSawbones opens his satchel and reaches out a pan, a leather roll, and a hard-cased cautery set. Kicks the logs and exposes the coals and balances the pan. Unsnaps the cautery case and sets the long-handled irons into the fire.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Water,” he says.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI uncap a jug and fill the pan. The sawbones fiddles with the knot and unrolls the leather wrap. Tools inside flash blade to spine: tongs, scissors, various knives. He thumbs the clasp on a worn medical bag. Vials strapped to the underside of the lid. The interior’s full of glass flasks and spools of silk and gauze. He tips a vial of iodine into the pan, then opens a jar of alcohol. Wipes down each blade with a soaked bit of cotton and sets the equipment ready on top the leather sheath.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSawbones removes and folds his coat and lays it on the bow of the wagon. He steps to Roy’s side and snips the torn pant leg. Twice the normal size below the knee, and two of the black toes sport open sores.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lift.” Sawbones waves at the foot. I lift. He slides a sheet of oilskin under the thigh. “Down.” He and I loop rope around Roy’s wrists and good ankle, then tie the rope onto stakes and pound the stakes into the dirt. Sawbones pulls a cotton swab from the bag and wipes Roy’s leg.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“That high,” I say. “Christ almighty.”\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sit on him.” Sawbones tests the tourniquet already around Roy’s upper thigh. I take my spot kneeling on Roy’s shoulders, and the girl comes up beside me. Kid’s already kicked off and lost her shoes and stands barefoot in the cooling sand. \u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Turn round,” I say, and when she won’t, I grab her. Press her face into my chest.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\\\/strong\u003e:\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\r\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Reading Fisher can feel like being belly down in nature, watching the advance of some obscure insect, baffled that such an intricate, weird, small thing could be conventionally alive in the world . . . These stories wade, lope, and glide.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Bookshelf","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An utterly original collection of short fiction that examines the idea of progress — humanity’s never-ending cycle of creation and destruction.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"03","PrizeName_0":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, BC Book Prizes","PrizeName_2":"A 49th Shelf Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","PrizeYear_2":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2018-03-13","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An utterly original collection of short fiction that examines the idea of progress — humanity’s never-ending cycle of creation and destruction.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
That Tiny Life
An utterly original collection of short fiction that examines the idea of progress — humanity’s never-ending cycle of creation and destruction.
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The Accusation
A major publishing phenomenon, The Accusation by anonymous North Korean writer Bandi is the first piece of fiction to come out of North Korea.
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The Farmer's Daughter
The Farmer's Daughter comprises three witty, memorable portraits of decidedly unconventional lives.
