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With ingenuity and impeccable craft, Jack Wang gives us an utterly remarkable collection that zeroes in on the emotional texture of utterly unique lives.” — \u003cstrong\u003eViet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“This impressive and vibrant collection of stories takes the reader by the hand, leading us across the world and back in time. But they’re all unified by the gentle sensitivity of Jack Wang’s prose and his ability to inhabit characters who long for freedom, connection, and fulfillment. Deeply humane and beautifully wrought, these stories stay in the heart and the mind.” — \u003cstrong\u003eAlix Ohlin, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists Dual Citizens and Inside\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Alix Ohlin, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists Dual Citizens and Inside","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“One of the best books I’ve read this year and one of my all-time favourite short-story collections.” — \u003cstrong\u003eSharon Bala, bestselling author of The Boat People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Sharon Bala, bestselling author of The Boat People","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Jack Wang’s \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e is not only a penetrating examination of the Chinese diaspora, it also brilliantly renders its subject in the most deeply resonant universal way, as the yearning for personal identity that drives us all in our shared humanity. This is a remarkable collection of stories, a remarkable work of art.” — \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Jack Wang’s dazzling first collection of stories, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, moves through decades and across continents with rare ease, telling not \u003cem\u003ethe\u003c\/em\u003e story but some of the many stories of the Chinese diaspora in the last century. These stories are so elegantly shaped, so satisfying as individual stories, that their collective power sneaks up on you. There is a quiet and building intensity to the storytelling here, a commitment to chronicling — with deep compassion and a refusal of easy answers — the dignity of human experience against the broader indignities of history. 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A year later my father came home with a new wife. He had been studying international law in Chicago despite already having a Ph.D. in political economics from the University of Munich. While he was gone I received a series of brightly coloured linen postcards of the World’s Fair: the Hall of Science, the Avenue of Flags, the iron lattice towers of the Sky Ride. The theme of the fair was A Century of Progress. That’s where my father met Grace.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eIt was a windless, thick-aired summer day in Changsha when a motorcar saddled with steamer trucks pulled up in front of our house and a woman in a white blouse, wide-legged trousers, and large round sunglasses climbed out. She was beautiful, which made me sad for my mother and scornful of my father, and she looked too fair to be Chinese. As it turned out, she was half Chinese, born of a Chinese father and a German-American mother. That, along with her clothes and her beauty, made her unlike any woman I had ever seen. My father had secured a large two-storey house on the outskirts of town and staffed it with half a dozen servants, all in an effort to make his new wife comfortable, but as soon as they arrived he was stricken by all he had not foreseen. The house had no running water, and despite the need Grace refused to use the privy, which had no seat and emitted at that time of year an audible drone. After pleading with Grace in hushed tones, my father ordered Old Chao into town for a portable commode, a trip of at least three hours. For the rest of the afternoon my new mother paced the courtyard, smoking one Lucky after another, which made her seem feral and caged. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e[…] \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eNeedless to say, Grace was unhappy in China. Though my father had no particular desire to leave, he began to eye the foreign service. When the Governor for whom he worked recommended the post of First Secretary in the Chinese legation in Austria, my father accepted for Grace’s sake. We arrived in Vienna in June of my tenth year, after a three-week voyage on the \u003cem\u003eConte Verde\u003c\/em\u003e through Saigon, Singapore, Madras, Bombay, Aden, and Port Said, and at first everything did seem better. The city was glorious with summer, and everywhere open air orchestras paid homage to the old masters, which made our lives seem set to music. Many nights my parents put on tails and gown and went to balls and receptions, living at last the life for which they were meant. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eBut it wasn’t long before Grace again felt stranded. She could no more distinguish der, die, and das than she could first and second tones. Then, in the spring, German troops goose-stepped through the Ringstrasse, just blocks away from our townhouse. The crowds that greeted them were lusty, adoring, as was I, my schoolboy fantasies of soldiers and guns come to life. My father did not raise his arm but he didn’t stop me from raising mine. That night, in a scene that would soon become commonplace, hoodlums took to the streets, smashing the windows of certain homes and shops. Thereafter, walking to and from school, I passed storefronts marked \u003cem\u003eJude\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNicht arisches Geschaeft\u003c\/em\u003e and blocked by baby-faced men in jackboots and flared helmets. As a visible foreigner and part of the diplomatic corps, my father felt undeterred and often went into these stores despite the piercing glares — and once, an arm held stiffly against his chest. For my mother, annexation was yet another rung of descent in a private tragedy. She chided my father for bringing her to a Nazi-occupied country. His answer: Better the Germans than the Japanese. \u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eAt the end of October, thousands of Polish-born Jews were rounded up and sent back to Poland. When a seventeen-year-old boy learned that his family was among those languishing at the border, unwanted by either side, he walked into the German Embassy in Paris and pumped five bullets into the viscera of a minor German diplomat. Two days later, Ernst vom Rath died of his wounds. The seething of the Germans, checked so long as their countryman clung to life, would now be unleashed. This was what my father knew when he came home that afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“A collection that announces an important new voice in contemporary fiction … Beyond Vancouver, Shanghai, Vienna, Port Elizabeth, and London, the stories in \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e encompass Tallahassee, Los Angeles, and Boston. Wang is committed to rendering his backdrops accurately; with perfectly presented details, he showcases the disharmony of the Chinese diaspora, as individuals endure salient moments in twentieth-century history and more recent times … \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e shows that Jack Wang is a master of the short story, a writer who has mapped his own space, neither Canadian nor American, nor anywhere else. Each episode in this collection is a moving tribute to its characters as well as an indictment of the ostracism that remains when racist taunts and human failures continue to bedevil the modern world.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Rich and poignant … History lovers and literary buffs will sink joyfully into his moving collection … Wang manages to underscore the importance of cultural heritage while stressing humanity’s common ties … His ability to create vivid and believable settings, in beautiful and readable prose, will deeply move readers.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Jack Wang is a welcome new voice in Canadian letters … [\u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e] is serious, engaging, well crafted, thought-provoking. Wang clearly has something to say, and this accomplished collection not only says it but also promises a great deal more to come.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrmsby Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Ormsby Review","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Jack Wang’s extraordinary debut book of stories, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, weaves a path across the world, following the Chinese diaspora over nearly a hundred years. It’s the kind of collection that comes along only once in a while, to be savoured by readers for its sharp, smart portraits of longing, connection, and identity.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, Jack Wang has written an instantly engaging and achingly poignant collection of stories about people struggling to preserve their way of life and seeking stability, connection, and meaning. Focusing on Chinese immigrant experiences, Wang’s stories range freely and easily across many decades and a dizzyingly assortment of geographies. All of Wang’s characters are vividly rendered, their struggles and agonies richly conceived and indelibly portrayed. The writing throughout is atmospheric, highly visual, and peppered with startling and persuasive detail. Long after finishing it, \u003cem\u003eWe Two Alone\u003c\/em\u003e lingers in the mind as a compassionate work by a profoundly talented writer who cares deeply about what it means to be human in turbulent times.” — \u003cstrong\u003eDanuta Gleed Literary Award Jury Citation, \u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award Jury Citation","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeName_0":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_1":"CBC Canada Reads","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2020-09-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
We Two Alone
A masterful debut collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.
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Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox
Children’s love for animals and disguise come together in this award-winning introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals.
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to 12
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to 7
Spud in Winter
Spud can't get get the killing he witnessed out of his mind. Should tell the police? He decides to take on the task of helping solve the crime.
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Specimen
A bold debut collection of short stories that explore the intersection of science and the human heart.
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The life story of Ibn Sina (980-1037), one of the greatest philosophers, scientists and physicians of the Islamic world.
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A Horse at the Window
A genre-bending collection of dramatic monologues shining a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness.
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Atonement
Soucy's brilliant second novel is a captivating and suspenseful examination of guilt.
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Twitch Force
A stunning volume of brave and original lyric poetry concerned with love and loss, despair and hope, aging and timelessness.
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This reframing gives us a chance to understand violence against women as deeply toxic for us all.” — \u003cstrong\u003ePhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Kaufman’s The Time Has Come offers a personal and instructive appeal for men to take the journey from self-reflection to allyship to advocacy around gender equality.” — \u003cstrong\u003eWade Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Wade Davis","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Critically important for our time and required reading for us all. 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It will be an important guide to the many men now seeking ways to stop violence against women, to create a more nurturing and loving culture for all. Now especially, a major ‘men’s movement’ is needed to counter the kind of male leadership that seems to encourage the very violence that continues to endanger our lives and well-being.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJudy Norsigian, co-creator of Our Bodies Ourselves\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Judy Norsigian, co-creator of Our Bodies Ourselves","OtherText_Accolades_7":"\u003cp\u003e“Michael Kaufman is among the most prominent male allies for social justice in the world today. In this new book he makes a more personal case to women — and men: gender equality is good for everyone! A vital and necessary book by one of the most visible activists and surest of guides.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Kimmel, author of Angry White Men and Guyland\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_7_Src":"Michael Kimmel, author of Angry White Men and Guyland","OtherText_Accolades_8":"\u003cp\u003e“This book is a timely, incisive, and accessible wake-up call for men around the world. One of the things I’m asked most commonly in my work is: where are the men discussing these issues? Why aren’t more men taking up this cause? Where is the book that will speak to men about this topic? Well they don't need to wait any longer. That book is here. It is vital reading for men everywhere and I hope it will support new wave of men and boys to become part of a battle that is as much theirs as it is women’s.” — \u003cstrong\u003eLaura Bates, writer and founder of Everyday Sexism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_8_Auth":"Laura Bates, writer and founder of Everyday Sexism","OtherText_Accolades_9":"\u003cp\u003e“One of the first men to stand up publicly against violence against women, Michael Kaufman has written a comprehensive and popular call to men to join the battle for gender equality not only through ending violence against women but also by supporting women’s equality on an economic, social, political and personal level. Give it to every man you know.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJudy Rebick, journalist, political activist, and author of Heroes in My Head\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_9_Auth":"Judy Rebick, journalist, political activist, and author of Heroes in My Head","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eFifty years of feminist organizing came to a head in early 2017. Millions of women and hundreds of thousands of men greeted the election of Donald Trump with some of the largest demonstrations the United States has ever seen. People joined in around the world. They were not only reacting to Trump’s boast of assaulting women but also were there to celebrate the impact of feminism and to show they would resist any attempts to roll back progress on women’s rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people in the streets and the tens of millions more who cheered in support inserted new life into decades of feminism and powered everything that was to come. Within months, revelations of sexual harassment and assault poured out of Silicon Valley; the film, theater, and TV industries; and the corporate world at home and abroad. The betrayal of trust, abuse of authority, and the denigration of women by men in positions of power pounded into our brains. As #MeToo and #TimesUp captured our attention, discussions quickly moved from newsrooms to dining rooms, staff rooms, and locker rooms. Men asked wives, daughters, and coworkers: Did anything like that ever happen to you? and a frightening number of women answered, Yes, of course, but why has it taken men so long to listen?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spreading shock waves are giving new impetus to demands in our workplaces for equal pay and equal access to all jobs. The millennia-long affirmative action program for my half of the species simply can’t go on. The shock waves are bringing new energy to concerns about the panoply of violence— verbal, sexual, emotional, physical—that countless women still experience. They are bringing more attention to the critical need for quality, affordable childcare and for parental leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd for men? More and more of us are realizing we cannot stay silent. We know we must speak out and we must examine our own attitudes and behaviors. But we’re also realizing that it’s time to rethink and reshape what it means to be a man because of the destructive and self-destructive ways we’ve defined manhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“This is a cogent, unusual call to action.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Kaufman argues persuasively that true gender equality will be good for the economy, families, the environment, and perhaps, especially, men themselves . . . Kaufman focuses on how the power granted by gender inequality puts men over women, some men over other men, and man over nature, thus widening his scope. A timely, informative, thought-provoking, and practical approach to a necessary social reform. Recommended for both men and women.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Time Has Come offers a plain-spoken and forthright look at why and how men must actively fight for gender equality.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2019-01-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The Time Has Come offers a plain-spoken and forthright look at why and how men must actively fight for gender equality.","Subtitle":"Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Time Has Come
The Time Has Come offers a plain-spoken and forthright look at why and how men must actively fight for gender equality.
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The Sniper
Jason Bourne meets John McClane in this electrifying Taiwanese thriller about a young special-forces sniper ordered to assassinate a high-level government official.
