House of Anansi Press
Inside
Written by Alix Ohlin
Published June 16, 2012 |
ISBN 9781770892064
FICTION / Literary

Regular price $22.95 CAD
272
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9.25 in
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About this book
Inside
Alix Ohlin
Reader's Guide ↓Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, an Amazon.ca Best Book, and an iTunes Store Best Book
When Grace, a highly competent and devoted therapist in Montreal, stumbles across a man in the snowy woods who has failed to hang himself, her instinct to help immediately kicks in. Before long, however, she realizes that her feelings for this charismatic, extremely guarded stranger are far from straightforward.
At the same time, her troubled teenage patient, Annie, runs away and soon will reinvent herself in New York as an aspiring and ruthless actress, as unencumbered as humanly possible by any personal attachments. And Mitch, Grace's ex-husband, a therapist as well, leaves the woman he's desperately in love with to attend to a struggling native community in the bleak Arctic. We follow these four compelling, complex characters from Montreal and New York to Hollywood and Rwanda, each of them with a consciousness that is utterly distinct and urgently convincing. With a razor-sharp emotional intelligence, Inside poignantly explores the manifold dangers and imperatives of making ourselves available to, and indeed responsible for, those dearest to us.
About the Author
Alix Ohlin
ALIX OHLIN is the author of four books, including the novels Inside and Dual Citizens, which were both finalists for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Short Stories, and many other publications. Born and raised in Montreal, she lives in Vancouver, where she chairs the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia.
Awards and Praise
- Commended Amazon.ca Best Books: Top 10 Canadian Fiction, 2012
- Short-listed Scotiabank Giller Prize, 2012
- Commended Amazon.ca Best Books: Editors' Picks, 2012
- Commended iTunes Store Best Book of 2012, 2012
- Commended Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, 2012
- Short-listed Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, 2012
- Commended Quill and Quire Books of the Year, 2012
- Commended Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, 2012