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Hallmarked by entrances into, and thought-provoking points of exit from, moments of addiction, betrayal, misjudgement, and first love, they are defining portraits of girls and women during the storm and stress of self-discovery. It's obvious that she cares deeply for her characters, but does not pander to them, forcing them to earn what they know and suffer when they make a mistake. Now grown up, they offer biting and insouciant revelations into sexual stereotypes, fear of intimacy, and anger management. Leaving her Montreal family and friends, Ariadne Hatzidakis returns to the land of her forebears — and a trap prepared for her by the old Greek gods.
The lover they present her with is Death, in the guise of Yannis Vissinos, a musician whose only fidelity is to his "white bride," heroin.
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The stages of Hell that we follow Ariadne through — the nightlife of Athens, the seasonal depravities of the love island, Nysas — are colourful, sexy, obsessive, and detailed with mordant wit. The odds are against Ariadne, but the gods are beginning to wish that they'd hedged their bets.
Stylish and elegant, Ariadne's Dream renders a lurid Greek landscape inhabited by striking and dangerous characters, entwined within the intensity of a nascent consciousness and a deeply-rooted living mythos. Billy Tinker offers a rare combination of realism and magic that draws out many of the contradictions and tests faced by Native Canadians and the working class.
Biggar is as much a character as the blind patriarch, Will Coutts, whose story is told through the uncanny perception of his grandson, Robert. He articulates a broad, sweeping, irreverent prairie landscape filled with vigour, youth and humour. Others take as their starting point the family sagas of European immigrants to Toronto during the s or the lives of contemporary working folk in Vancouver.
Another turns on an incident during the American Civil War. Yet all the tales are set in the borderlands of human experience — the precise moments at which history becomes memory, desire is transformed into belief, and some locale or condition alters and we sense in the change a boundary. Wayman gives us nature in the eyes of a man who knows it like his own skin. City of Rains is an atmospheric page-turner, a wholly original perspective on Indian and Western history. Dass creates a multi-layered quest through a narrator who boldly accepts and challenges his Indian heritage and is rewarded with truth and love.
Comfort Me With Apples has a wider range, though, and deeper resonances. Yet it is moments of tenderness, wry and understated, which linger and haunt the reader. Acknowledging the psychological architecture of his life, Richard Parks reconstructs the anatomy of this singular philosophy from his earliest recognitions. Compensation is a refreshing affront to our politically correct sensibilities. There was a man who called himself Coyote.
He blew up bridges to clearcut logging sites. He liberated zoos, and torched shopping malls in the night. Then he died, twenty years ago, in a botched factory sabotage. It will be one of several murders. The edition aptly describes the stories as a self-portrait, a cross-section of the Canadian imagination. Canadian Materials September Books in Canada May His characters — fishermen, farmers, First Nations people, drifters — battle the forces of history for their dignity and survival.
Dagg invests economic and cultural realities with a distilled social realism. These stories detail the Canadian landscape with the markers of nature and travel, while examining the ways in which individuals must cope with economic, social and environmental forces beyond their control. Irony and ambiguity often mark their fates; their lives often fractured by the unpredictable debris of their pasts. Praise for Mel Dagg's fiction: Charles Noble's counter-novel is a minefield and motherlode of jest, memory and speculation.
If Stephen Daedalus had been put to school with the Lutherans instead of the Jesuits, he might have devised this technique to portray his hometown, its inhabitants and his own evolution. Noble's exploration of the literary and topographical culture of Banff, past and present, yields a narrative filled with wit, style and playful exuberance.
Peopled with a cast of characters taken from real life and transformed by Noble's capacious imagination, Hearth Wild mingles personal and social history with a unique, compelling fictive style. Joe Welsh irreverently and poignantly recreates the forties, fifties and sixties in and around Lebret, Saskatchewan. Enriched throughout with a relentless stream-of-consciousness, the writer merges vignette, poem, and dramatic monologue into a form that is unique in its authentic language and local colour.
From internationally recognized Canadian author W. Kinsella Dance Me Outside, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, The Fencepost Chronicles comes a new collection of baseball stories that is sure to delight all lovers of engaging storytelling and fans of the sport he chronicles in the classics Shoeless Joe and The Thrill of the Grass.
Kinsella weaves his characters into the thrill of the game, be it in Japan, Central America, Canada or the U. This collection captures the dazzling wit, compelling insight, and obsession with baseball that have made Kinsella more popular than a ballpark frank. Kinsella has published 21 books of fiction, two books each of non-fiction and poetry, and three of his works, including Shoeless Joe which became Field of Dreams , have been made into major motion picture films. Whatever it has taken to shape the prairie and its rhythm has also shaped and captured its people.
The present is not merely an echo of the past, it is amplified by it. Yet there is no brashness here — the prairie will not tolerate it. There is only a wry awareness — authentic and honest. A Jesus Christ look alike has trouble with his girlfriend. His stories are charmed with the glow of small-time Canadian losers and dreamers living in a broken, plugged-in world.
John Lent has written a book of tender short stories which carries the kind of insight that encourages the reader to read on. His use of detail including the familiarity of Western Canadian landmarks creates an introspective that draws out aspects of Canadian culture which are often difficult to define. Without remorse or bitterness Bean moves forward, seeking her friendships where she can, casting spells to protect her younger sister, and seeking solace from whatever small sanctuaries her transient life offers.
At a time when North American writers prefer to probe the depths of individual angst and uncertainty, Henighan has unabashedly chosen to tell stories that tackle sociopolitical issues. Canadian Book Review Annual Set widely across Canadian landscapes with travel into Mexico and Venezuela, her characters reveal glimpses of love, marriage, disillusionment, acts of healing and destruction played out on the personal battlegrounds of everyday life. The stories themselves are full of the tensions and resolutions of lives often lived in the extreme.
I found these stories gripping. Spurred on by pain and a numbing domesticity with long-time love, Quinn McLeod, she retreats into her memory, reliving her rookie year and emerging sexuality with her much older mentor, Darren Steward. Silence Invites the Dead opens in the storm of the Rwandan genocide that drives a Canadian journalist into a funk of regret and renouncement. Seven years later, Myles Sterling, still haunted by this past experience, accepts an invitation to join former Rwandan colleague Colonel John McTaggart in Candle Lake, Saskatchewan, where life is peaceful and the fishing is good.
This murder pulls Myles Sterling down the trail of a suspect casino development proposal, drugs, and violence. The further he looks, the more trouble he finds. The characters are as diverse as they are interesting: Layering the dimensions of northern politics and ethical dilemmas, Miller sets the stage for greed, power, and revenge. These fictions range from the youthful desires that hockey generates, through to the difficult realities and bitter disillusionments dedication to the game can bring.
Canadian Materials November Each tale examines the rough edges of misguided obsession: This is the debut of a distinctive and powerful new voice in Canadian short fiction. These entertaining stories deserve a wide audience. But can they shape their own chaotic lives with such resolution and comparable acts of faith?
A stunningly original work of speculative fiction, The Fungus Garden follows the plight of a man who becomes transformed into a termite. Impeccably researched, this story brings the reader effortlessly into a fascinating world of conflict and desire, ultimately becoming an investigation into what it means to be human.
Set in contemporary Turkey, The Infidel weighs the elements of truth that flow out of Turkish consciousness in the wake of its historical massacres. Authentic and persuasive, The Infidel is an uncompromising novel of the focussed turning point of events following the revelation of truth. The Places Where Names Vanish explores the frightening, encoded, and potentially explosive realities of Quebec and Montreal as seen by Ecuadorean expatriates.
Marta longs for escape from her impoverished village, where she is pulled between traditionalism, spiritualism, Catholicism, and a dirty, brutal reality. She gives herself to a soldier stationed nearby who dreams of North America and a career in music. They leave and Marta learns the refugee's signposts: The Places Where Names Vanish is a wonderfully evocative, subtle and heartfelt novel, which concentrates on one brave human spirit, but raises more questions than any sociological expose.
Set alternatively in England, South Africa, and Canada, the novel translates the world of nineteenth-century England. The reprieve from such madness leads to Canada — the place of peace and plenty, where exploiting the dreamers and those who would reinvent themselves is turned into big business. The result is an exhilarating adventure, both tense and riveting. These details of the Spanish conquest weave throughout the narrative, colouring the lives of everyone she encounters in her birthland.
The Reddening Path is cleverly structured, with a style that fluctuates between dreamlike poetic imagery and a traditional quest-for-identity narrative Hale's novel is an intriguing look at post-colonial biculturalism set against a moving backdrop of familial love and personal enlightenment. If you wish to know the tragic history of Guatemala and of Latin America from the time of the conquistadores, read this compelling novel. The Secret of the Northern Lights continues the chronicle which has delighted thousands and outraged a select few since Silas Ermineskin first appropriated the English language in with Dance Me Outside.
Silas shares the inside information learned as part of his apprenticeship to Mad Etta, medicine woman on the Ermineskin reserve. Humour, as always, is the leveler in these twelve new Hobbema stories. While nothing is taken too seriously, serious, even tragic, things do happen and sacred things are accomplished. June 14, Fertile, Candace.
Without stopping a moment of drama, Trafford constructs the foundation of a western Canadian epic that layers Indian and European mythology with a perfect blend of history and adventure, all told through his central character, Blue Eye James, whose time-honoured codes of hard work, honour, fairness, and trust lay the foundation for an empire. A provocative reconstruction of the Frog Lake Massacre of that draws on published accounts of survivors Theresa Gowanlock and William Cameron. A must read for anyone interested in the convolutions of Canadian history. Canadian Content Fall Life does look different from up in a tree, and the man who lives in the root cellar in his long johns has something to tell you.
Maybe you will discover what it is like to be an out-of-control pacifist or determine the psychological value of a good pair of shoes. In Translating Women , Stenson performs on the high wire between short story and tale, manipulating narratives while deftly abstracting them. However high they soar — often high indeed — they are as down-to-earth as honey and jam. A fine and fascinating collection. Make room on your shelf for his stories, and make his characters feel welcome, for they are people you know.
Stenson paints men and women as they are: What happens in the small prairie town of Tuckahoe? An irresponsible drifter fakes a unique illness to break an engagement. Thoughout the desperation and adversity rides an undercurrent of sly humour. When all the animals are gone, and the world become a desert, where shall hope be found? Her skeleton is charged with Restart — a video game-like element for reanimating. Water is a solidly researched novel inspired by the mathematical extrapolation of the length of time a technological civilization can exist.
In a place that makes them feel lonely, they try never to be alone; and in lives confounded by rituals and restraints, their search for meaning is illusive. Canadian Materials March Malahat Review April It is a sparkling, vigorous debut and bodes well for Ms. Berkeley's future in fiction. This special limited edition was published in handsomely designed cloth with dust jacket artwork by Kath Kornelson Rutherford.
Each copy is numbered and signed by the author. Man Facing West presents a collection of fiction and nonfiction, sewn together with traces of autobiography. These values have always been, and continue to be, integral to the people who belong to this historically rich and vibrant community. However, as the history of the Doukhobor people demonstrates, putting this into practice was more difficult than envisioned and, paradoxically, has generated a great deal of conflict within the various spheres of the community itself — most certainly it has created conflicts with those from outside their self-contained community.
It is at this juncture of conflict in the decades of the s, s and s that the name Doukhobor was to etch itself into the Canadian consciousness.
While Doukhobor culture plays a central role in creating conflict, from the first few pages right to the end, it is also a novel of coming of age, a novel of accepting fate, and a great entertaining story. The story of Vasili, who walks in the shadow of the past and in the light of the future, marks this novel as a distinctive cultural read in a territory where few writers have gone before. Unit Lessons Plan for Svoboda. Alex was in harmony with the water. He taught himself to swim, and liked working the sea off Prince Edward Island as his fisherman father did, but he always yearned for something more.
His brother Reggie despised it all — the water that brought death, the seasickness — and he longed for escape. All three would get their wish, but coincidence would shape those wishes in profound ways. Alex would find himself on a circus trapeze fated to meet the Niagara Falls tightrope artist, Farini. Anne McDonald weaves a series of spells that pull this beautifully written novel through a tightly woven script.
Rich in tone and textured for a very rewarding reading experience, To the Edge of the Sea combines great storytelling with polished literary control. It is her hopes, dreams, and indomitable humour that lay bear the beauty and love within her family. It is her unerring eye that reveals the great bond of family expressed in the actions and affections of her sisters, aunties, uncles, brothers, cousins, nieces, nephews, and ultimately her ancestors.
Nobody Cries At Bingo embraces cultural differences and does it with the great traditional medicine of laughter. His thematic pursuits usually deal with the human willingness to carry on in the face of an often hostile and baffling universe, where nothing is as it first appears and that is clearly evident in this collection. The Weeping Chair employs ideas that are both impossible and unexpected to serve as platforms for the edgy humour always lurking in the human condition and beyond: The characters that readers meet in these places will be oddly familiar or perhaps familiarly odd.
Her curiosity and scrutinizing intelligence as well as her ever playful wit guide the reader through close encounters with physical and psychological landscapes and then reveal the uncommon denominators in them that make people unique. In flight, without much money and not even a suitcase, Emily becomes a tragic figure but somehow through her independence and determination rises above this stereotype. From her family and friends a portrait of Violet emerges of a young woman who has faced down the denial, anger, and depression of her bi-polarity and, despite her struggles, she has bargained for her place in the world as a sister, daughter and mother.
Then, as now, we get to hear and see Neil, Rick and Jane dissect their own thinking, second-guess their destinies, and generally revel in and reinvent their relationships with each other as they confront their addictions, dreams, and failures. In the heady times of the s Hollywood, a teenager's crush on the legendary screen idol, comedian Harold Lloyd, changes her life forever.
The Glass Character is a story of obsessive love and ruthless ambition set in the heady days of the Jazz Age in the s. It was a time when people went to the movies almost every day, living vicariously through their heroes: Valentino, Garbo, Fairbanks and Pickford. But comedians were the biggest draw, and broad slapstick the order of the day with one very significant exception. Standing beside Keaton and Chaplin in popularity and prowess was a slight, diffident man named Harold Lloyd — the silent era's most influential comedian.
For sixteen year-old Jane he was a living god and though Lloyd had as many female followers as Gilbert or Barrymore, Jane knew no one could adore him more than she did, and no one would be willing to sacrifice more to be part of his life. Her story also reveals much about the human heart and our desire to love against all the impossible odds. Powerful women and wild women, victims, seducers and nurturers all find their way into one collection of hard-edged prairie fiction.
Worrell understands girls who dream of being wives and mothers in safe cozy homes, then find out that trying hard to secure that life does not necessarily make it happen. In Proudflesh , readers will not find heartwarming sentimentality, but mature literary prose with surprising twists and indeterminate endings and women of intense substance and spirit. Her work is imbued with the feminism that early literary pioneers like Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro introduced in their fiction and although the individual stories ride off different horizons, collectively their ideas stress that when faced with a choice between self-fulfillment and goodness, many will sacrifice goodness in order to have their needs met.
Through her social work lens, Worrell knows what it is like to be dependent, mentally ill, or at the end of one's life. She does not shy away from the moist curlicues around men's nipples, Auschwitz, tumours, aloneness, post-menopausal bellies, cat piss, or suicide. She writes close to the bone. Her characters may not be heroically dashing or intrepid, but they stare death in the face without flinching and this is what makes Proudflesh such an important first book. Worrell examines the eccentricities, frailties and courage of an impressive range of characters to show us a few things we might have forgotten about ourselves.
A debut to celebrate" — Connie Gault. The events that bring about this everyday moment are unveiled in a series of spirited flashbacks that move convincingly between Elsa and her grandmother. In Regina, Lita, a young woman of gypsy ancestry, develops a passion for playing the guitar. Her boyfriend Mark Taggart is also in a punk band. In love with the music scene, with each other, and their new baby, they decide their musical prospects would be better in Seattle than in Regina, a move that will prove to bring about significant changes.
Though fifty years exist between Lita and Elsa, their circumstances reflect and conform to the lives they have chosen. The pain of rejection and betrayal has to be managed, just as the responsibility of commitments must be maintained. Motherwild is an unvarnished journey, a celebration and depiction of struggles to survive on a sometimes violent, sometimes loving, always alive, Montreal working-class street.
Set over the course of a year beginning in December , Joey Cantell is trying to figure out his relationship with his mother. Then there was Celine Lesage, a girl living downstairs in the apartment block who reminded him of his mother as Celine too was a puzzle that drove him mad but attracted him like no one else. But a pervasive melancholy overrides certain days as Joey struggles with thoughts of what his mother might do to herself or what he might do to her. He even contemplates using the gun he found on slippery Dion Street during a winter bank robbery to silence this mother confusion.
Can Joey trust himself not to carry out his violent plan? What can he do to intervene and break the craziness his mother feels? Will his fantasies of Celine ever become reality? What will then become of him? Then an incredible event occurs that will change him for the rest of his life. When our own darkness is mirrored in multi-faceted characters, do we look away in disgust or find the humanity within them?
In his debut short fiction collection, John Mavin has slyly exposed themes hidden deep below the surface with breathtaking potency, eloquence, and wit. Rage follows a loosely interwoven group of people from the fictional town of Dolsens, Ontario. Archaeologists, mountain climbers, priests, musicians, psychics, soldiers, and teens all confront the rage and sorrow of lives based on lies and abuse. Throughout the collection, these people struggle to gain their independence, their dignity, and in some cases, to take revenge.
While the stories take place in the fictional Ontario town of Dolsens, the voices and situations create and illuminate the breadth that can be found within one place, whether it be young women in an abandoned graffitied building, or musicians aging, or a man of the cloth. Rage is a collection of turns, and will take the reader into disparate corners…which is exactly what short fiction should do. Deftly turning them inside out, he lingers there—draws us into their pathos, their aching beauty. A Memoir of Identity and Ideas. Each passionate story in this collection varies in perspective, and yet all share undertones of the trauma of life during wartime.
We fall in love with those conflicted by their broken families, as well as immigrants, travellers, and refugees as they embark on their difficult searches for place and finding a home. In this debut collection, we are left feeling overwhelming care for our fellow neighbours and countrymen. You are invited underneath the great greenwood tree to hear how a young man became a hero, and a hero became a legend.
But comedians were the biggest draw, and broad slapstick the order of the day with one very significant exception. Eighty years have passed since flash floods, droughts, and tornadoes have ravaged the North American landscape and mass migrations to the north have led to decade-long wars. Stenson writes with whimsy, weaving rich, long sentences to capture the odyssey of Hanne Lemmons. Even humour, mankind's dance with taboo, has failed in this area for most of us. It was a time when people went to the movies almost every day, living vicariously through their heroes:
Unable now to become a knight, and joined by his childhood friends, Robin Hood leads the most infamous outlaw band ever to evade the king and his sheriff. Blending true history with new stories, popular inaccuracies, and some almost forgotten medieval legends, The Scarlet Forest brings a new life to the greenwood, which here feels as fresh as it does traditional.
With an academic background in medieval English studies, A. The forest is waiting. It is also great to see such a strong female character. Gwilym Dodd, medieval historian at the University of Nottingham. For interview questions or book club and bonus materials go to the author's website. Stories of women trying to get their footings, preserve their sanity, and survive in circumstances they never thought they would find themselves in. Occasionally alcohol or firearms are involved. Just like in real life. These women go toe-to-toe with chronic liars, dead grandfathers, beleaguered sons, mysterious voices, unfaithful husbands, midnight callers, spiteful sisters, and hallucinated clowns.
Husbands go crazy or wayward or missing. Life hits walls and somersaults and does breathless, tactless things. And always it must be dealt with even when the means to do so seem to be entirely absent. At a time of cultural change for Indigenous people that feels relentlessly tidal and epochal, For the Changing Moon: Poems and Songs records the ebb and flow of what it is to live here and now in Canada, as a woman, an Indigenous woman, a culturally mixed woman, a daughter, a mother, a peace-seeker, and a warrior.
The book includes work visually designed for the page, and work composed to be chanted, sung, and spoken amongst ourselves. We are asked to experience it as a record of the shifting times, and understand how the mood of the world can strike change in an individual, sometimes, like a rogue wave; and other times, slowly and methodically like a lunar tidal pull. If you can do this Can you, Can you do this?
If we can do this, Can we? Can we do this? They encourage us to enter their spells and incantations always built with an ear for sound and with an eye for images of dream and wonder. Her invite and challenge is clear: Read and share these poems and songs, and answer them back with your own. From this specific place, Canada, during a moment of global sea change, these poems and songs reach for the moon-mad natural soul in all of us, that part of all of us that lives to follow the Great Song. Do you know that prickly feeling when a relationship is under duress or takes a walk?
In the background the mine looms large, its four-rotor boring machines rumble deep under the earth, while six kilometers away, Livewood town life embraces their rhythm. The stories disclose the fears of those whom the mine has orphaned, like Lourdes whose life forward was always fraught with uncertainty that had to be met with bravado; the stories describe all the hard-drinking and the uncertain young men like Dillon, Darryl, and Blake, or the young women driven by lust that leads to unwanted pregnancies.
In Thorn-Field small-town life is anything but idyllic. Scattered throughout the stories are the addicts, enablers, those obsessed with better lives and those who are resigned to small town life under the big smokestacks.
Thorn-Field is a collection of linked short stories that examines how small town despair can cripple the spirit but also how community faith and trust can heal it. With dramatic flair and gutsy dialogue, James Trettwer exposes their subterranean reality and their daily struggles against disappointment, pain, addiction and loneliness, and towards hope. Thorn-Field is a thoughtful, compassionate, accomplished debut. Oil Change at Rath's Garage. If Matt can be the catalyst, Ben and Jack might change as well.
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The Fabric of Day. Yes, and Back Again. Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction. The Glorious Mysteries and Other Stories. The Little Washer of Sorrows. Hanne and Her Brother. The Path of the Jaguar. What Can't Be Undone. Brunch with the Jackals. Hunting Piero is the tale of a passionate moral quest, and equally, a story of redemption and of love tested by tragic missteps and their deadly consequences. The Greatest Lover of Last Tuesday. Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Fiction.
A Year at River Mountain. Crises build as war threatens; floods occur and a devastating event leads our narrator to a beautiful and surprising formulation of how things are. The Path to Ardroe. A Nose for Death. We Don't Listen to Them. Long-Shortlisted for the ReLit Award: Longlisted for the ReLit Award for Fiction. Angela of the Stones.
Memoir of a Good Death. In the Embrace of the Alligator. Winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction. Long-listed for the ReLit Award for Fiction. The Streets of Winter. Waiting For the Piano Tuner to Die. What's Come Over Her. A Grave In the Air. A Heart In Port. A Run On Hose. A Stone In My Pocket. A Traveller Came By: All In Together Girls. Anything Boys Can Do. Comfort Me With Apples. Also by Devon Krukoff: Now available in eBook format! Fire Beneath the Cauldron.
Japanese Baseball and Other Stories. Finalist for the 5th Annual ReLit Awards. Nights in the Yungas. Orchestra of the Lost Steps. Silence Invites the Dead. Selected Reviews Boulanger, Annie. The Places Where Names Vanish. The Secret of the Northern Lights. The Story of Blue Eye. The Women on the Bridge.
Where the Rocks Say Your Name. The Face In the Garden. The Swimmer in the Deep Blue Dream. To the Edge of the Sea.
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Available October 1, Quantity: Short Fiction In stock. Reading Group Guide In stock. Frances Price — tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature — is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self destruction and economical ruin — to riotous effect.
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A Novel by Imogen Hermes Gowar. One September evening in , Jonah Hancock hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of London. Jonah is stunned—the object the captain presents him is brown and wizened, as small as an infant, with vicious teeth and claws, and a torso that ends in the tail of a fish. It is also dead. At an opulent party, he makes the acquaintance of the coquettish Angelica Neal, the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes on—and a shrewd courtesan of great accomplishment.
This meeting sparks a perilous liaison that steers both their lives onto a dangerous new course as they come to realize that priceless things often come at the greatest cost. A Novel by Rebecca Serle. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen? When Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also three significant people from her past, and well, Audrey Hepburn.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel by Hank Green. The Carls just appeared. Roaming through New York City at three a. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship—like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor—April and her friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world—from Beijing to Buenos Aires—and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight.
Seizing the opportunity to make her mark on the world, April now has to deal with the consequences her new particular brand of fame has on her relationships, her safety, and her own identity. And all eyes are on April to figure out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us. Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with big themes, including how the social internet is changing fame, rhetoric, and radicalization; how our culture deals with fear and uncertainty; and how vilification and adoration spring for the same dehumanization that follows a life in the public eye.
The beginning of an exciting fiction career, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is a bold and insightful novel of now. John Woman by Walter Mosley. A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman, an unconvent more Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past.
Engaging with some of the most provocative ideas of recent intellectual history, John Woman is a compulsively readable, deliciously unexpected novel about the way we tell stories, and whether the stories we tell have the power to change the world. A Novel by Gary Shteyngart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seema—a driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealth—has her own demons to face.
How these two flawed characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is at the heart of this piercing exploration of the 0.
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Reading him sometimes makes me want to scream—with recognition and with pure hilarity. What begins as a rollicking and zinger-filled road trip sneakily deepens into a poignant tale of a man trying to outrace his problems. A Novel by Fiona Neill. With four sides to this psychological family drama, who will you believe? But that summer, Lisa had an affair with Rosie's husband, Nick. Relationships were torn apart. A letter that exposes dark secrets. And Nick must confront his own version of events.
There are four sides to this story. Who will you believe? A Novel by Lydia Kiesling. But clarity proves elusive. Over the next ten days Daphne is anxious, she behaves a little erratically, she drinks too much. She wanders the town looking for anyone and anything to punctuate the long hours alone with the baby. Among others, she meets Cindy, a neighbor who is active in a secessionist movement, and befriends the elderly Alice, who has traveled to Altavista as she approaches the end of her life.
When her relationships with these women culminate in a dangerous standoff, Daphne must reconcile her inner narrative with the reality of a deeply divided world.