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Fever
Set in the rugged South African wasteland, Fever is an epic story of survival and betrayal for fans of Station Eleven and The Road.
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We’d left the play a half-hour after it began, a poorly-written, poorly-acted farce. Now the sidewalk was empty. Tiny lights strung between gas lamps and storefronts created a glittery canopy beneath which we stood. Charming, he’d said when we arrived earlier, a part of the city neither of us had seen. I was still in my clothes from that morning: white sweater, pencil skirt, suede ankle boots with zippers, high-heeled. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’ll call a car, I said. Your hotel’s on the way to mine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe rode in silence, the wet asphalt glowing red and green at stoplights. When we pulled up to his hotel, James turned to face me, adjusting his glasses. Okay, he said. Text me when you’re safely back. He leaned over to brush my cheek with his lips, but when the bellhop opened the rear door he didn’t get out. He sat looking ahead, rubbing a hand up and down, up and down his thigh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth of us 45, born in the same year, four months apart; both married to our spouses for twenty-three years. Two similarities in what had come to seem, in the time we’d known each other, a cosmically-ordained accumulation: born and raised in the desert southwest, allergic to peanuts, obsessed with the Christian mystics and quantum theory and Moby Dick. Children the same ages and genders—older girl, younger boy—and 96-year-old grandmothers who still lived independently. In the end it was this last fact that undid me, the longevity in our respective genes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe safe way to let yourself fall in love with someone who isn’t your spouse: imagine the life you might have together after both your spouses have passed away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(What I mean is, darling: when I made love with you that night, I was making love with the magnificent old man I knew you would become.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan I help with any bags? the bellhop said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou’re at the Hyatt? James said to me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTake us to the Hyatt, he said to the driver, and pulled the door shut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e**\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this story begins where most end: a boy and a girl in love, a wedding, a happily-ever-after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalibu, June. A bride and four attendants on a grassy bluff above the Pacific. The morning is overcast, typical on the coast, the diffuse light ideal for photographs. The bride’s dress is raw silk in antique ivory and appears backlit against the slate of ocean. Sweetheart neckline, cap sleeves, full skirt with a train that will later gather into a bustle. She cradles her bouquet like an infant, six-dozen roses in various stages of bloom, blush pink. The groomsmen, fraternity brothers, have already been photographed. They wait inside the chapel, where in half an hour the ceremony will begin. They wear gray tuxedos with ascot ties and slick black shoes. Three, including the groom, have the same round tortoise-shell glasses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown the coast, at the country club in Pacific Palisades, the caterers are assembling the cake: five tiers frosted in a basket-weave pattern, with real ivy and roses trailing down one side. The bride has selected a different flavor for each tier: butter cream, chocolate, spice, red velvet. The top layer—which will be placed in the couple’s freezer for their first anniversary, until one night while they’re out, the bride’s younger brother, knowing nothing about such traditions, eats the whole thing—is white-chocolate with raspberry-creme filling. The centerpieces are fishbowls with ivy and roses identical to those on the cake. They sit in a refrigerated van on Pacific Coast Highway, north of Sunset. The driver is stuck in beach traffic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there is plenty of time.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“There’s real humanity in this novel, and there are insights about love and longing.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Rolling, raw, and sensual . . . The sentences burn with desire and disquiet. The novel is generously condensed, ardently focused, and its mechanisms poetic, not expository.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“A lean first novel steeped in theology, suburban domesticity, literary criticism, child-rearing and, most dramatically, infidelity, Fire Sermon sizzles and cools to the rhythm of its narrator Maggie's moods and meanderings.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“The mechanics of Quatro’s novel are an enjoyable puzzle.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"An Economist Book of the Year","PrizeName_1":"Indie Next Pick","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2018-01-16","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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An unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.
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These are people you may not want to invite to dinner, but they sure make for fun reading.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNPR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10":"\u003cp\u003e“Sharply observed moments give deWitt’s well-written novel more depth than the usual comedy of manners — a depth reinforced by the exit that closes the tale, sharp object and all. Reminiscent at points of The Ginger Man but in the end a bright, original yarn with a surprising twist.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFrench Exit\u003c\/em\u003e satisfies with its delightful economy. Barely a word is out of place, and the dialogue is particularly arch and ironic … One hears echoes in \u003cem\u003eFrench Exit\u003c\/em\u003e of playwrights Noël Coward and Oscar Wilde, not to mention novelists Evelyn Waugh and Edith Wharton.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"NPR","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“A cross between a Feydeau farce (fitting, given that the location of most of the novel is Paris) and a Buñuel film, as one after another in an eccentric cast of characters is introduced . . . DeWitt is in possession of a fresh, lively voice that surprises at every turn.” — \u003cstrong\u003eKate Atkinson, \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Kate Atkinson","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Vanity Fair","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“DeWitt’s particular comic genius is to evoke the darkness behind the dazzle. The novel is a brittle, unsettling delight: a fairground ride swooping above vertiginous drops, wringing out laughter and screams as it rattles towards its conclusion. Whichever style he adopts or genre he inhabits, deWitt remains a true original.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“DeWitt’s particular comic genius is to evoke the darkness behind the dazzle. The novel is a brittle, unsettling delight: a fairground ride swooping above vertiginous drops, wringing out laughter and screams as it rattles towards its conclusion. Whichever style he adopts or genre he inhabits, deWitt remains a true original.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“A highly enjoyable read . . . DeWitt’s style is nothing if not idiosyncratic, and his elevated language — played for particular comic effect when it comes to dialogue — is perfectly suited to affectionately chiding upper-class mores. And the tenderness between Frances, her son, and her old friend Joan is of the real stuff.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Esquire","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“A ‘tragedy of manners’ about people out of sync in the world, this novel is disconcertingly funny. It strikes postures where a more conventional writer would have been sincere and humourless. Its subjects are effrontery, wealth, death, and bad manners. Many of the greatest novels are about nothing so very important, and they last because they are done beautifully. French Exit shows Patrick deWitt’s literary mastery and perfect ear. It’s an immaculate performance on ice, executed with sharp shining blades, lutzing and pirouetting above unknowable black depths.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eScotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“Disarmingly funny … Billed as a ‘tragedy of manners,’ French Exit is deWitt’s take on a form of theatre popularized over the centuries (but dating back to the ancient Greeks) by such luminaries as Molière, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, and Noel Coward — with deWitt’s snappy yet droll version most closely resembling the latter two. A traditional comedy of manners employs an abundance of wit and insouciance to skewer the deplorable aspects of high society — and the prevalence of appearance over substance in particular. DeWitt’s absolute mastery over this approach is a thing of beauty: every nuance, scene, character, and snippet of dialogue is pitch perfect … French Exit includes multiple layers of meaning and social commentary, wrapped up in a whip-smart package that cracks with wit and wordplay … DeWitt proves that while The Sisters Brothers may have made his name as an author, it was far from a singular success.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“[DeWitt] is a masterful storyteller who propels narrative with witty, weird vignettes and digressions.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“Darkly comic, perfectly brilliant … Let deWitt take you along on this dizzying, wild ride; you’ll love every second of it, and then hop back to the beginning for another go. 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A brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial ruin.
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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. 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Frying Plantain
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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I Make My Own Fun
An unhinged romp through fame, obsession, and fandom
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I couldn’t put it down.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Alison Pick, author of Between Gods and Far to Go","OtherText_Review_1":"As someone recovering from a serious illness, I related so deeply to Teva’s work. No one writes about illness like this, it was hard to stop crying (in a happy way) because I felt so understood.","OtherText_Review_10":"“Teva Harrison’s diagnosis with incurable cancer removes the expectation of an abundance of more — more dreams fulfilled, more time — but focuses her attention on the near and immediate. In this honest and raw memoir, Harrison examines and discovers, grieves, and celebrates, and takes us with her as she crafts a ragged and resonant beauty from her experience in these In-Between Days.”","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Miranda Hill, author of Sleeping Funny","OtherText_Review_11":"In her heartbreakingly honest exploration of these spaces in-between, Harrison provides a useful guide for those who cannot know the thoughts and fears of someone living with chronic illness; and for those experiencing a similar situation, the book shows that even in the most personal of journeys, you are not alone. At its heart, In-Between Days is a firm statement that joy and hope can exist in the same space as anxiety and fear; that each day we are given should be lived, as Harrison says, “With a sense of wonder and delight.”","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Michael Melgaard","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_12":"Harrison’s drawing style is more freeform than finicky, and her linework has an appealing vulnerability. But even beyond that aesthetic quality, there’s a remarkable directness to seeing vignettes from a life coloured by cancer that cuts to the quick…The results are profoundly, achingly affecting…What’s striking is, as Sontag might say, her resistance to metaphoric thinking. There’s whimsy, to be sure: the author and a friend don tails and sequins and march in a mermaid parade, and Harrison conjures childhood summers spent stargazing and having flower-petal snowball fights. But when it comes to the day-to-day details of cancer, Harrison is unflinching in her efforts to tell—and show—the straight story.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Maclean’s Magazine","OtherText_Review_13":"…an unflinchingly honest and occasionally joyful account of Harrison’s day-to-day life","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Metro News","OtherText_Review_14":"In-Between Days, a graphic novel that combines comics and short essays that explore what it is like to live with incurable cancer, is, all at once, heartbreaking and heartwarming, revealing and honest, all the while showcasing how beautiful and unfair life can be","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Canadian Jewish News","OtherText_Review_15":"There are many books about living with cancer, and then there is Teva Harrison's, \"In-Between Days\"","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"CBC Metro Morning","OtherText_Review_16":"Inspiring, eye-opening and darkly funny, In-Between Days runs the emotional gamut, with comic strips so sharp they feel like a punch to the heart.","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"CBC Books “How I Wrote It\"","OtherText_Review_17":"In-Between Days offers a fresh perspective, approaching a topic that has inspired so many sad stories with an unexpected vibrancy.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Lauren Scott","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Rabble","OtherText_Review_18":"Every tale of illness… has the potential to transform a personal story into a universal lesson. Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days lives up to that potential, and then some…beautiful and often arresting…","OtherText_Review_18_Auth":"Peter Kavanagh","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_19":"raw, brilliant, thought-provoking, and very disquieting","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kathleen Hanna, artist, musician (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Julie Ruin), and feminist activist","OtherText_Review_2":"There’s no real preparation for how hard Teva Harrison’s stunning graphic novel will hit you. It doesn’t humanize the disease — that would be banal — and it doesn’t aggrandize the journey — that would be self-help bunk. Rather, it portrays the process as something achingly human, a daily tumult of stuff that roughly amounts to survival. Teva Harrison has stared into the abyss. And what has stared back but love?","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Richard Poplak, author of Ja No Man","OtherText_Review_3":"Teva’s art and reflections powerfully capture the struggles of being young and facing the certain, yet uncertain end of your life. May we all be this honest with ourselves as we deal with life’s challenges. Inspiring, insightful, contemplative, thank you Teva.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Geoff Eaton, Executive Director, Young Adult Cancer Canada","OtherText_Review_4":"How does a person live with meaning — and joy — in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis? Teva Harrison answers this question with pitch-perfect honesty and clarity, even when delving into her own complex contradictions. From Harrison’s rigorous honesty comes wisdom. In-Between Days is a beautiful offering. This book fills my heart. The world is lucky to have Teva Harrison. She truly knows how to live, and to love.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Angie Abdou, author of Between","OtherText_Review_5":"With great wisdom, Teva Harrison understands that her cancer doesn’t make her special. But this book certainly does. Through her art and her words, we are reminded of the power of creativity, and that hope for the future is an essentially creative act.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Andrew Westoll, author of The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary","OtherText_Review_6":"Teva Harrison is a metastatic voice that I believe is breaking through. By using humour and creativity to draw people in to a challenging topic, Teva is expanding the breast cancer conversation and shedding light on the complexities and nuances of the disease. I believe In-Between Days will help improve public understanding as well as empower and support others dealing with metastatic breast cancer. Beautifully done.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"MJ DeCoteau, Founder and Executive Director of ReThink Breast Cancer","OtherText_Review_7":"Heartbreaking. Profound. Sly and brutal and funny and crushing. Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days is one of the most stunning memoirs I've ever read. Teva’s taught me it’s not about the number of days left to us. It’s about living them completely.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Joseph Boyden","OtherText_Review_8":"With insight and honesty, Teva Harrison invites us to join her on this deeply personal, beautifully expressed journey with cancer. Through this remarkable book, we encounter awkward ironies, the quietly harrowing reality of our mortal human condition, and moments of distilled life and beauty. Wryly unflinching in her examination of her condition, its treatment, and herself, Teva shares with us the gift that emerges from her in-between days.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Vincent Lam","OtherText_Review_9":"Teva Harrison’s memoir is a frank, moving, powerfully minimalist yet deceptively complex work of art. With seemingly simple, but ingeniously pared-down strokes, Harrison bestows upon her readers the gift of complete empathy. Without forcing a thing she makes her readers FEEL how she feels — it’s remarkable! — and by the end of this powerful shared experience, by allowing her readers into her heart and mind, she occupies with us both our present and future. We’re all in great shape, we realize thanks to Harrison, as living, feeling, loving human beings.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Guy Maddin","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days is an inspiring graphic memoir about living with cancer.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"Kobo Emerging Writers Prize for Nonfiction","PrizeName_2":"Joe Shuster Award","PrizeYear_0":"2016","PrizeYear_1":"2017","PrizeYear_2":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-04-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Teva Harrison’s In-Between Days is an inspiring graphic memoir about living with cancer.","Subtitle":"A Memoir About Living with Cancer","Width":"6.88","WidthCode":"in"}
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Killing Pilgrim
The second novel in the Marko della Torre series, Killing Pilgrim is a propulsive political thriller set against the backdrop of war-torn Yugoslavia.
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Minds of Winter
The unexpected meeting of two present-day travellers exposes one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.
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I am grateful to Marilyn Booth for her translation of this exquisite book.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author Sabrina \u0026amp; Corina","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJokha Alharthi's Celestial Bodies was first ever novel originally written in Arabic to win the Man Booker International Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eShe was also the first Omani woman to have a novel translated into English.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThere has in incredible interest in immigrant and international stories, as demonstrated by the success of story collections by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Djamila Ibrahim, Irina Kovalyova, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ayelet Tsabari. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eFor fans of prize-winning literary fiction; stories of immigration, belonging, and identity; stories about and for women.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eA gorgeous and insightful story of longing … The bittersweet narrative, intuitively translated by Booth, is chock-full of indelible images … This solidifies Alharthi’s well-earned literary reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eAlharthi delivers an imaginative story. ... The slim novel is a bittersweet, non-linear exploration of social status and a young woman’s agency.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"TIME","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"TIME","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e[\u003cem \u003eNarinjah\u003c\/em\u003e] offers plenty of detail about Omani life between world wars. ... It makes for evocative reading, helped by Booth’s translation. ... In Alharthi’s world, it’s not only the future that holds promise; the past has possibility and opportunities for revision, too.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Joumana Khatib, New York Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eAs with her acclaimed novel \u003cem \u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e, Alharthi probes family relationships and picks at the frayed edges where the heart and society want different things. . . . 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Narinjah (The Bitter Orange Tree)
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes an extraordinary story of one young Omani woman building a life for herself in Britain.
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NDN Coping Mechanisms
The follow-up collection from Griffin Poetry Prize–winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work.
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They are sleepless, ceaseless, trying to alter and to recode the world of consumerism, and their survival means that they must daily and collectively reconstruct existence in the city and its coterminous forests. Noopiming is far ahead of us in so many registers of story, language, and worldview; its cumulative effect is a new cosmography.” — \u003cstrong\u003eDionne Brand, award-winning author of Theory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Dionne Brand, award-winning author of Theory","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“This imaginative book is what would happen if we gave pen and paper to the deepest, most secretive parts of ourselves. Down to the fibres, down to each breath, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson dares to not only explore the humanity of a character, but the humanity of the parts that make us whole, in a world running on empty.” — \u003cstrong\u003eCatherine Hernandez, bestselling author of Scarborough\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Catherine Hernandez, bestselling author of Scarborough","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming once again confirms her position as a brilliant, daring experimentalist and a beautiful, radical portraitist of contemporary NDN life. The prose hums with a lovingness that moved me to tears and with a humour that felt plucked right out of my rez adolescence. The chorus of thinkers, dreamers, revolutionaries, poets, and misfits that Simpson conjures here feels like a miracle. My heart ached and swelled for all of them. What I adored most about this book is that it has so little to do with the white gaze. Simpson writes for us, for NDNs, those made to make other kinds of beauty, to build other kinds of beautiful lives, where no one is looking. Noopiming is a book from the future! Simpson is our much-needed historian of the future!” — \u003cstrong\u003eBilly-Ray Belcourt, award-winning author of This Wound is a World and NDN Coping Mechanisms\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Billy-Ray Belcourt, award-winning author of This Wound is a World and NDN Coping Mechanisms","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e“How is it that Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s fiction can feel both familiar and warm like old teachings and absolutely fresh and brand new? Is it even fiction? Noopiming seems to exist somewhere in the in-between, with all the best parts of poetry and story. As always, I am in awe of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, prolific in every way.” — \u003cstrong\u003eKatherena Vermette, bestselling author of The Break\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Katherena Vermette, bestselling author of The Break","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e“I’m pretty sure we don’t deserve Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. But miracles happen, and this is one. This book is poem, novel, prophecy, handbook, and side-eyed critique all at once. This book doesn’t only present characters you will love and never want to leave (but yes, it does), it doesn’t only transform the function of character and plot into a visibly collective dynamic energy field (and hallelujah), but it also cultivates character in the reader, that we might remember what we first knew. Which is that what seems separate was never separate. What feels impossible is already happening. And it depends on our most loving words. It requires our most loving actions towards each other. The ceremony has been found.” — \u003cstrong\u003eAlexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Dub: Finding Ceremony\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Dub: Finding Ceremony","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“This brilliant novel is a carefully curated mix of prose and poetry, though the narrative and poetic form never leaves either; at all times, there is a deliberate attention to rhythm, movement, and sound. The layered storytelling is rich with wry and undeniable humour and introduces readers to an incredible cast of characters, giving us the perspective of Elders, Indigenous youth, raccoons, geese, and trees, braiding together past, present, and future and intentionally centring Nishnaabe life and practices … This is the beauty and masterful work of this novel: it holds something for every Indigenous person. It’s a gift that feels specifically for us.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“[Noopiming] presses readers — Indigenous and settler alike — to consider the novel form as a wider venue for storytelling than it is traditionally conceived … Language is thrilling in all of Simpson’s work, and nowhere more so than in this newest offering … Simpson’s writing is at once political and loud, honest and whisper-quiet … This novel will be reread for its many truths and teachings and for its undeniable power. The complicated questions Noopiming poses are worth revisiting, and the novel’s wisdom will continue to grow as the reader does.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Taking traditional Anishinaabe teachings and weaving them through contemporary forms of understanding, Simpson brings the reader into not a new world, but a world already existing, one that breaks through the colonial bars that try to cage it.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRabble.ca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Rabble.ca","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/em\u003e, nothing is ever simply a metaphor. Everything is so wrought of love and care, spell and calling.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGenControlZ\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"GenControlZ","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction","PrizeName_1":"ReLit Award for Novel","PrizeName_2":"DUBLIN Literary Award","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2020-09-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel.","Subtitle":"The Cure for White Ladies","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Noopiming
Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel.
