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{"id":6811221917755,"title":"Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth","handle":"nothing-could-be-further-from-the-truth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The president of a holistic dog food company is haunted by a pop song from her past. Nine siblings band together to raise themselves after parental abandonment. A domestic argument reveals a woman’s supernatural gift. A failing musician finds his calling soundtracking another man’s life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Christopher Evans's stories are people with strays — those who fall for the allure of nostalgia, grapple with male fragility, deny family trauma, and acquiesce to authority. For these characters, resignation and reinvention are only a breath apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eNothing Could Be Further from the Truth \u003c\/em\u003eis a bold debut collection that sits at the threshold of expectation and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T09:28:06-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T09:16:44-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Evans Christopher","pub date: 2022-02-01"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"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":40190645469243,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010331","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":206,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487010331","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40190645600315,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010348","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010348","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_814bf20e-826a-49ea-95ad-16bcec298dfa.jpg?v=1664085783"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_814bf20e-826a-49ea-95ad-16bcec298dfa.jpg?v=1664085783","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22721062469691,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_814bf20e-826a-49ea-95ad-16bcec298dfa.jpg?v=1664085783"},"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_814bf20e-826a-49ea-95ad-16bcec298dfa.jpg?v=1664085783","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The president of a holistic dog food company is haunted by a pop song from her past. Nine siblings band together to raise themselves after parental abandonment. A domestic argument reveals a woman’s supernatural gift. A failing musician finds his calling soundtracking another man’s life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Christopher Evans's stories are people with strays — those who fall for the allure of nostalgia, grapple with male fragility, deny family trauma, and acquiesce to authority. For these characters, resignation and reinvention are only a breath apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eNothing Could Be Further from the Truth \u003c\/em\u003eis a bold debut collection that sits at the threshold of expectation and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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At their root, they are an exploration of the deep sadness of modern existence, which can only be conveyed through an equally deep humour.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJen Neale, author of Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize finalist Land Mammals and Sea Creatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Jen Neale, author of Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize finalist Land Mammals and Sea Creatures","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Uncanny in their capture of the anxiety of our times, these stories buzz with urgency, sting with humour, and probe a beguiling dream state: the absurdity and audacity of being human.” — \u003cstrong\u003eNancy Lee, author of VanCity Book Prize winner The Age\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Nancy Lee, author of VanCity Book Prize winner The Age","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e“The stories in \u003cem\u003eNothing Could Be Further from the Truth\u003c\/em\u003e jangle with quiet urgency as their discontented protagonists grope for connection with each other and yearn for some small measure of fulfillment. 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This draws in readers as the stories in \u003cem\u003eNothing Could Be Further from the Truth \u003c\/em\u003ereflect our lives and the crazy world around us.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“This is a wonderful collection from a sure-footed writer with a great ear for dialogue. Meticulously observed, the stories illustrate how ordinary life often thrums with mysterious, elusive truths just waiting to be grasped, if only we are brave enough.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“In his relentlessly entertaining debut collection, Christopher Evans presents a series of arch depictions of what it means to be imperfectly human and vulnerable in a troubling and troublesome modern world.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiramichi Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“The stories of Christopher Evans’s accomplished first book read as confident and effortless; they’re assured and mature, as though sprung fully-formed from the proverbial shell … Presented by a surefooted writer, the gallery of characters in \u003cem\u003eNothing Could Be Further from the Truth\u003c\/em\u003e fascinates. Under Evans’s capable hands squabbling couples, disgruntled teens, and lovers with stricken hearts command attention as they reach and stumble and reach once again for happiness, contentment, love, or an untroubled sense that everything is running smoothly at last.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrmsby Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Ormsby Review","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Evans excels at succinct portraiture, saying a lot with a little in brief, intriguingly premised stories … A refreshingly different debut collection from a writer to watch.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Library Journal","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003eIn stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2022-02-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003eIn stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth
In stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.
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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 follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.
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The twenty-third semi-annual Munk Debate takes on the future of liberalism against the rising tide of populism.
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The Quiet
Anne-Marie Turza's formidable debut poetry collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science.
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The Water Rat of Wanchai
In the first book of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces us to Ava Lee — the smartest, most stylish heroine in crime fiction since Lisbeth Salandar.
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Buddy and Earl
An obedient dog and an irrepressible hedgehog become fast friends in this first book in a funny and appealing series.
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The Temple at the End of the Universe
A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith.
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