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{"id":7232489685051,"title":"The Outsmarters","handle":"the-outsmarters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKate opens a Philosophy Booth (“Get answers to life’s big and little questions — $2 a question”) and ends up asking some tough questions of her own.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuspended from school and prone to rages, twelve-year-old Kate finds her own way to get on with her life, despite the messed-up adults around her. Her gran, for one, is stubborn and aloof — not unlike Kate herself, who has no friends, and who’s been expelled for “behavioral issues,” like the meltdowns she has had ever since her mom dumped her with her grandmother three years ago. Kate dreams that one day her mother will return for her. When that happens, they’ll need money, so Kate sets out to make some.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGran nixes her idea to sell psychiatric advice like Lucy in \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e (“You’re not a psychiatrist. 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Her gran, for one, is stubborn and aloof — not unlike Kate herself, who has no friends, and who’s been expelled for “behavioral issues,” like the meltdowns she has had ever since her mom dumped her with her grandmother three years ago. Kate dreams that one day her mother will return for her. When that happens, they’ll need money, so Kate sets out to make some.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGran nixes her idea to sell psychiatric advice like Lucy in \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e (“You’re not a psychiatrist. You’ll get sued.”), so Kate decides to open a philosophy booth to provide answers to life’s big and small questions. She soon learns that adults have plenty of problems and secrets of their own, including Gran. When she finds that her grandmother has been lying to her about her mother, the two have a huge fight, and Gran says she can’t wait for Kate to finish high school so she’ll be rid of her at last. 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Kate opens a Philosophy Booth (“Get answers to life’s big and little questions — $2 a question”) and ends up asking some tough questions of her own.
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{"id":6815265620027,"title":"The Path of Most Resistance","handle":"the-path-of-most-resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA humorous and vivid collection of stories about the struggle for human connection by two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Russell Wangersky.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs entertaining as they are insightful, the stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Path of Most Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e are anchored by the concept of passive aggression in our everyday lives: ordinary people who are quietly, desperately, and indirectly trying to impose their will on the uncaring world around them. From a woman who compulsively shops for luggage in order to sublimate her desire for a divorce to a senior citizen who tries to force his family to visit by refusing to eat, the characters in this collection try to change their lives through oblique resistance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Path of Most Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e is an observant and compassionate look at the feelings of powerlessness that we all share, and will have readers silently cringing and nodding in recognition of their own bad behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T12:06:49-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:47:13-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Humor","Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Wangersky Russell","pub date: 2016-08-20"],"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":40209196711995,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000684","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Path of Most Resistance - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":240,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000684","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209200054331,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000691","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Path of Most Resistance - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000691","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40209201659963,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000707","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Path of Most Resistance - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000707","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c9cba7e3-a61e-4de0-a9c1-0edf7a9b3785.jpg?v=1678600389"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c9cba7e3-a61e-4de0-a9c1-0edf7a9b3785.jpg?v=1678600389","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324552691771,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c9cba7e3-a61e-4de0-a9c1-0edf7a9b3785.jpg?v=1678600389"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c9cba7e3-a61e-4de0-a9c1-0edf7a9b3785.jpg?v=1678600389","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA humorous and vivid collection of stories about the struggle for human connection by two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Russell Wangersky.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs entertaining as they are insightful, the stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Path of Most Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e are anchored by the concept of passive aggression in our everyday lives: ordinary people who are quietly, desperately, and indirectly trying to impose their will on the uncaring world around them. From a woman who compulsively shops for luggage in order to sublimate her desire for a divorce to a senior citizen who tries to force his family to visit by refusing to eat, the characters in this collection try to change their lives through oblique resistance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Path of Most Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e is an observant and compassionate look at the feelings of powerlessness that we all share, and will have readers silently cringing and nodding in recognition of their own bad behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Russell Wangersky’s steady faith in human nature yields honest, bedrock prose veined with surprising gleams of love and pain.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Marina Endicott, author of Close to Hugh","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Russell Wangersky has mastered the short story. The pieces in this collection are tender, violent, humorous, sorrowful, and sexy — sometimes all at the same time. In its exploration of human betrayal and human connection, The Path of Most Resistance captures the raw physical energy that simmers just below the surface of everyday life. This collection is a true gift from one of Canada’s most talented writers of short fiction.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Angie Abdou, author of Between","OtherText_Accolades_2":"No one charts the geography of loneliness better than Russell Wangersky. Writing with clarity and precision, he reveals lives lived under a slow compression, of tension that demands release. At turns lyrical, wry, darkly comedic, but always heartfelt, Wangersky’s collection takes the short story to new heights of grace and skill.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Will Ferguson, author of 419","OtherText_Review_0":"Microcosm and macrocosm are laid bare in this collection of 12 rigorous stories by Wangersky (Walt), whose fiction has won an Independent Publisher Book Award and many other accolades…the [stories] endings hang suspended, almost magically, in the air and continue to do so in readers’ minds long after they have put the book down and gotten on with the minutiae of their own lives.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"Wangersky eases languidly between action and imagination. Certain brief moments of memory and fantasy, a little like Richard Ford’s thoughtful, dreaming, disconnected men, suggest a different register of interest from the mostly unspectacular events the stories are about. Structurally, there’s great artistry in the way Wangersky is able to tell, somehow, two stories at the same time, the under-plot gradually easing the main plot out of sight. The stories are full of precise observations, small gifts of reality: the way damp in the air warns you of an approaching storm, a husband “sunk into his chair like a grounded ship.” It’s fine, detached, and subtle writing... At their peak, these stories have the strengths of the author’s finest work–the deeply unsettling spareness of Walt, the visceral insight of Burning Down the House.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Atlantic Books Today","OtherText_Review_2":"Wangersky is adept at creating crystalline moments in which events or lives change or reorganize themselves; rarely does he offer closure or pat solutions to the situations he imagines.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"By tapping into the frustration that comes with being ignored or misunderstood, Wangersky is writing stories that speak to a very base emotion in all Canadians; we’re a more aggressive, competitive people than we like to think. But in The Path of Most Resistance, this is tempered by Wangersky’s humour and honest treatment of his characters – a group that readers will recognize in their friends and neighbours, people going about their lives, knowing that no matter the frustration, there’s nothing to do but keep on going.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_Review_4":"Russell Wangersky affirms his position as one of the finest short-story writers currently working in this country . . . Wangersky has delivered a collection unified in its quality, but eclectic and surprising in the breadth of its styles, subjects, and techniques.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An entertaining and insightful collection of stories by award-winning author Russell Wangersky about passive aggression in our everyday lives.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-08-20","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An entertaining and insightful collection of stories by award-winning author Russell Wangersky about passive aggression in our everyday lives.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Path of Most Resistance
An entertaining and insightful collection of stories by award-winning author Russell Wangersky about passive aggression in our everyday lives.
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The Pet Store Window
Ana looks out the pet store window with the store’s last remaining animals for sale—a dog, a hedgehog and a mouse. What are they waiting for?
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The Place of Shining Light
A ride through war-torn and terrorist-controlled regions as three men race against time to take possession of a 5,000-year-old religious treasure.
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The Playgrounds of Babel
From two world-renowned creators, this picture book is about the power of song, inspired by the story of the Tower of Babel.
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The Politics of the Family
In his 1968 CBC Massey Lectures R. D. Laing discusses how and why we value society's notions of family over our own.
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The Polymers
The Polymers is a bold work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds.
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This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Adam Dickinson's poetry collection The Polymers is limited to 50 copies.
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The Princeling of Nanjing
Ava Lee finds herself caught in a labyrinth of high-level political corruption that spreads to three continents.
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The Prisoner and the Writer
An illustrated, middle-grade treatment of the Dreyfus Affair told from the perspectives of Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus and writer Emile Zola.
