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She lives in Toronto and works in the film industry.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Indigenous","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Horror","BISACSubject_0":"FIC019000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC059000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC015000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eADRIANA CHARTRAND\u003c\/strong\u003e is a mixed-race Native woman, born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her father is Red River Métis (Michif), born and raised in the Métis community of St. Laurent, and her mother is a white settler from Manitoba. Adriana has two degrees in film studies and has previously worked in the social work field. 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As the lines between right and wrong blur and dissolve, Dawn recons with trauma and violence, loss and reclamation in an unsettling world where spirit realms entwine with the living—and where it is humans who carry out the truly monstrous acts.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487011956","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487011956\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Spiderline","MetaKeywords":"katherena vermette;the break;the strangers","NumberOfPages":"256","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"Well written, creepy, frustrating, and puzzling. There may be violence in this novel, but there’s nothing ordinary about it.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDrew Hayden Taylor, author of \u003cem\u003eTake Us to Your Chief\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Drew Hayden Taylor, author of Take Us to Your Chief","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e is a gripping debut novel that bewilders in the best way possible. Adriana Chartrand sparks a fire on the first page that steadily burns into a tremendous literary spectacle that transcends genre. I was riveted by the story and thoroughly impressed by the writing. This novel will stay with me for a long time.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eWaubgeshig Rice, author of \u003cem\u003eMoon of the Turning Leaves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Jesse Wente, author of Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"What a book! It’s utterly enthralling and unsettling to your bones. A wonderful haunt that creeps into your psyche in the best possible way. I feel like I know Dawn, which only makes the story creepier. A tremendous debut, and I can’t wait to read more.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eJesse Wente, author of \u003cem\u003eUnreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Francine Cunningham, author of God Isn’t Here Today","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An Ordinary Violence \u003c\/em\u003eby Adriana Chartrand is a compelling read that rockets off the page. From the first chapter, I was hooked and gleefully followed Dawn as she moved around the spaces she used to call home to figure out her new reality. The writing is poetic, truthful, and you can tell that Adriana has written a story from her heart. This book will be sure to surprise its readers!\" —\u003cstrong\u003eFrancine Cunningham, author of \u003cem\u003eGod Isn’t Here Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An Ordinary Violence \u003c\/em\u003eis surely a gripping and haunting novel, one that will hold you from the first word to the last, but what makes it so potent and memorable is the way Adriana Chartrand tells this story with such grace and humility. There is horror, and then there is \u003cem\u003ehorror\u003c\/em\u003e—\u003cem\u003eAn Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e has both. This is an unforgettable novel.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eMorgan Talty, author of \u003cem\u003eNight of the Living Rez\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother and RED X","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"Adriana Chartrand’s \u003cem\u003eAn Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e is a hallucinatory slow-burn chiller, sharply observed and heartfelt in its depiction of family ties that bind like strips of wet rawhide. Dawn returns to her hometown to find it is in the grip of something uncanny and malevolent. As she visits old friends and familiar places, she grapples with ghosts from the past and demons on the rise to save her struggling father, her wayward brother, and herself. With this fresh and fearsome look at the contemporary Indigenous experience, Chartrand emerges at the forefront of our newest literary voices.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Demchuk, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Bone Mother\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRED X\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon of the Turning Leaves","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"An unsettling, lyrical, slow-burn of a novel that combines the best elements of atmosphere and horror. Weaving together a history of violence with spirituality and the supernatural, Chartrand has achieved something special here, a cacophony of style and genre that displays the immeasurable potential of Indigenous storytelling.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDavid A. Robertson, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Theory of Crows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"David A. Robertson, author of The Theory of Crows","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAdriana Chartrand is a mixed-race Indigenous woman — Red River Metis (Michif) and white. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e fits into the burgeoning literary genre of Indigenous speculative fiction by authors such as Cherie Dimaline, Eden Robinson, Darcie Little Badger, David Robertson, and Waubgeshig Rice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis book kicks off our new direction for the Spiderline imprint, which will include more genre-bending, ground-breaking, experimental, innovative, unexpected, and unconventional speculative titles, as well as mysteries and thrillers, by more BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ authors. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e is a prime example of the movement in horror film and TV series to explore big-ticket social issues such as feminism, racism, colonization, and intergenerational trauma, such as Jordan Peele’s \u003cem\u003eGet Out\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUs\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNope\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Babadook\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House\u003c\/em\u003e. This book seamlessly blends classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is now an undeniable explosion of spectacular Indigenous content in mainstream arts, culture, and entertainment, with movies like \u003cem\u003ePrey\u003c\/em\u003e and TV shows like \u003cem\u003eReservation Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRutherford Falls\u003c\/em\u003e. The past two winners of CBC’s Canada Reads have been Indigenous-authored books (\u003cem\u003eJonny Appleseed\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFive Little Indians\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAdriana Chartrand is a mixed-race Indigenous woman — Red River Metis (Michif) and white. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e fits into the burgeoning literary genre of Indigenous speculative fiction by authors such as Cherie Dimaline, Eden Robinson, Darcie Little Badger, David Robertson, and Waubgeshig Rice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis book kicks off our new direction for the Spiderline imprint, which will include more genre-bending, ground-breaking, experimental, innovative, unexpected, and unconventional speculative titles, as well as mysteries and thrillers, by more BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ authors. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e is a prime example of the movement in horror film and TV series to explore big-ticket social issues such as feminism, racism, colonization, and intergenerational trauma, such as Jordan Peele’s \u003cem\u003eGet Out\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUs\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNope\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Babadook\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House\u003c\/em\u003e. This book seamlessly blends classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is now an undeniable explosion of spectacular Indigenous content in mainstream arts, culture, and entertainment, with movies like \u003cem\u003ePrey\u003c\/em\u003e and TV shows like \u003cem\u003eReservation Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRutherford Falls\u003c\/em\u003e. The past two winners of CBC’s Canada Reads have been Indigenous-authored books (\u003cem\u003eJonny Appleseed\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFive Little Indians\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"A cinematic, haunting debut that explores the many ways trauma and violence stay with us, the benefits and dangers of a physical reality merging with a spiritual one, and how the most dangerous monsters we ever face may be the ones we already know.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Creepy and unsettling, this assured debut addresses the ways violence, grief, and unprocessed trauma reverberate over years, keeping fractured psyches and relationships from mending.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Library Journal","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"A chilling picture of trauma, grief, and violence that is anything but ordinary.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e is an exceptionally executed work of atmospheric horror that delivers cruelly and completely. Chartrand masterfully draws out the narrative, gradually heightening the tension through skillful restraint and careful pacing.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An Ordinary Violence\u003c\/em\u003e promises an unforgettable read.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndiginews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"This eerie and darkly funny horror novel explores the aftermath of trauma, violence, and loss in worlds inhabited by spirits along with humans.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrairie Books NOW\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerrible things happen side by side with the ordinary. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2023-10-31","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerrible things happen side by side with the ordinary. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"A Novel","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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Haunting their recollections in one mysterious woman who, convinced of the box's good or evil powers, pursues it with deadly desperation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this mesmerizing, intricately constructed puzzle of a novel, Mandy-Suzanne Wong challenges our understanding of subject and objects, of cause and effect. Is it only humans who have agency? What is or isn't animate? What do we value and what do we discard?\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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At once a detective story, a meditation on art in the Anthropocene, and a speculative encounter with the liveliness of things, Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s startling novel is literature for our times.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eSofia Samatar, author of \u003cem\u003eThe White Mosque\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTender\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Sofia Samatar, author of The White Mosque and Tender","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"Wong's limpid, precise prose has a nineteenth century vibe, while her focus, an inanimate object, could not be more contemporary. 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The reader enters it, fascinated, just as s\/he goes out into the snow, which is always falling. Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a writer to watch.” — Amina Cain, author of \u003cem\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eExplores themes of: mysterious forces; social collapse; climate change; the unreliability of memory; disconnection and loss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor fans of the Netflix series’ \u003cem\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKaleidoscope\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvance praise: “\u003cem\u003eThe Box\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary novel, gamesome and philosophical. Not since Borges have, I experienced fiction as a perfect maze or puzzle, endlessly pleasing. The reader enters it, fascinated, just as s\/he goes out into the snow, which is always falling. 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The Box
A stylistically dazzling dystopian novel about things, people, and the forces and seams between them.
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{"id":6906275954747,"title":"Bravo, Chico Canta! Bravo!","handle":"bravo-chico-canta-bravo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this sweetly funny picture book, a tiny mouse, Chico Canta, saves his entire family from the clever kitten, Little Gato-Gato, when he uses his quick wits and ability to speak another language.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMrs. Canta lives with her family in an old theatre, and she has her hands full trying to keep track of her twelve children—especially Chico Canta, the youngest, tiniest, and most mischievous of the mice. She is always telling them, “Hurry! Hurry! ¡Pronto! ¡Pronto!” She speaks many languages, and she encourages her children to learn more, too. “Bilingual, bravo!” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne evening, after a wonderful performance of \u003ci\u003eThe Three Little Pigs\u003c\/i\u003e, the mouse family narrowly escapes Little Gato-Gato. 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Recommended.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Media Connections\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Library Media Connections","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A picture book about the advantage of being bilingual, written by renowned author Pat Mora and daughter Libby Martinez.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"Tejas Star Reading List","PrizeYear_0":"2015","ProductFormDescription":"Web PDF","PublicationDate":"2014-04-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A picture book about the advantage of being bilingual, written by renowned author Pat Mora and daughter Libby Martinez.","Width":"8.75","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 4
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Bravo, Chico Canta! Bravo!
A picture book about the advantage of being bilingual, written by renowned author Pat Mora and daughter Libby Martinez.
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{"id":6816229031995,"title":"The Spotted Dog Last Seen","handle":"the-spotted-dog-last-seen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhile volunteering at a local graveyard, Derek discovers that solving a mystery from long ago will also help him put his own present-day fears to rest.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile tracking clues from a secret code penciled in the margins of mystery novels at a public library, Derek Knowles-Collier discovers a time capsule that may finally put his haunting past to rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt QueensviewElementary, grade-six students are required to complete a community service unit as part of their school curriculum. Derek Knowles-Collier was sick when groups were assigned, so he is stuck with what’s leftover: landscape and repair duty at the local cemetery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDerek is not happy about his assignment. 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The Spotted Dog Last Seen
While volunteering at a local graveyard, Derek discovers that solving a mystery from long ago will also help him put his own present-day fears to rest.
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Mary Anning's Curiosity
This novel imagines the childhood of Mary Anning, considered the world's greatest fossilist, who discovered her first big find at the age of twelve.
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The New Brick Reader
Full of invigorating and challenging literary essays, interviews, memoirs, travelogues, belles letters, and unusual musings.
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{"id":6814247256123,"title":"Once More with Feeling","handle":"once-more-with-feeling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom award-winning author Méira Cook comes a novel exploring the intricacies and interconnected lives of one community in a small and colourful prairie city. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter twenty years Max Binder is still in love with his fiery wife, Maggie, and is determined to get her the perfect fortieth birthday gift. But Max’s singular desire — to make his wife happy — leads to an unexpected event that changes the course of his family’s life and touches the people who make up their western prairie city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet over the course of a single year, \u003ci\u003eOnce More With Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this city through intersecting moments and interconnected lives. 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But Max’s singular desire — to make his wife happy — leads to an unexpected event that changes the course of his family’s life and touches the people who make up their western prairie city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet over the course of a single year, \u003ci\u003eOnce More With Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this city through intersecting moments and interconnected lives. The colourful citizens who make up the community are marked by transformation, upheaval, and loss: the worker at a downtown soup kitchen who recognizes a kindred spirit amongst the homeless; the aging sisters who everywhere see the fleeting ghosts of two missing neighbourhood children; a communal voice of mothers anxious for the future of their children in the discomfiting world they inhabit. Award-winning author Méira Cook has crafted a novel that is at once funny, poignant, and yes, full of feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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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. 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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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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":"9781770898790","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770898790\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":"\u003cp\u003e“…a confident debut collection…” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Beautifully bizarre … wickedly creative …these stories are strange and beautiful, imaginative and unafraid of emotion.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eW Dish Network\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"W Dish Network","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“…accomplished excursions into the weird and offbeat.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Elegant, deft, light of touch, and sometimes spicily comic …[This] debut story collection is a marvel of style and substance.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“…clever and jaunty…” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","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":"mobi","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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Together by the Sea
In the tenth and final instalment of the legendary Soifs cycle, Marie-Claire Blais invites all the agonies and joys of humanity to a party by the sea.
