"e;A richness of language and observation pervades this collection of short stories by a black writer about real black people"e; (The New York Times Book Review).
A woman who cannot leave her house loses everything, her only companion a garrulous radio talk show host; a house fire sets into motion the end of a marriage; a teenage girl cannot extract herself from a doomed relationship with a heroin addict.
Winner of the 2016 Trillium Book AwardFinalist for the 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeNominated for the 2015 Danuta Gleed Literary AwardOne of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015One of 49th Shelf's Books of the Year, 2015The eleven remarkable stories in Kevin Hardcastle’s debut Debris introduce an authentic new voice.
Set in locales and time periods as varied as nineteenth century England, contemporary Spain, and postwar Alberta, these five stories and two novellas introduce us to characters whose obsessions occupy the borderlands between fantasy and reality.
From the strange erotics of household appliances to the shock of a childs first encounter with death, this collection explores the borderland between inner and outer realities, creating a sharply etched portrait of fraught consciousness struggling for balance between the pains and sudden pleasures of being alive.
In a linked collection that presents the secreted small tragedies of an Anglican congregation struggling to survive, All Saints delves into the life of Simon, the Reverend, and the lives of his parishioners: Miss Alice Vipond, a refined and elderly schoolteacher, incarcerated for a horrendous crime; a woman driven to extreme anxiety by borderline-abusive sex; Owen, The Shitblood Man, who, lost in the woods, loses himself in a fit of rage; a receptionist and her act of improbable generosity; a writer making peace with her divorce.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD"e;As a potential heir to the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, McInnis is off to a promising start.
Finalist for the 2015 Giller PrizeFinalist for the 2016 Best Translated Book AwardOne of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015A twenty-five-thousand-copy bestseller in Quebec, Arvida, with its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips heading nowhere, is unforgettable.
Longlisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Awardand the 2014 Giller PrizeMoody, shape-shifting, provocative and always as compelling as a strong light at the end of a road you hesitate to walk down.
What Boys Like brings together a motley assemblage of urban misfits and outsiders, and explores their love/hate relationships with their city and one another.
From the deceptively simple narrative (Apple Cider Vinegar, Hurricane Bob) to the surrealist story (Dismemberers) and the magical tale (Jonah and Sarah and Lanskoy Road), the tempo fluctuates, but throughout, Shrayer-Petrov seamlessly preserves familiar voices.
Every year, many of the young salmon swim upstream to where they were spawned to lay eggs and raise a new generation of young fish that will swim down to the ocean.
A quirky assortment of materialistic suburbanites trying to supersize and spend their way to happinessAn affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mass marketing, and material objects.
The latest issue of LCRW features magic, killing curses, broken lands and broken lands, a wandering octopus, a robot on the run, invisibility, neighbors, and The Book of Judgment.
William Sidney Porter was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on September 11, 1862 He was a voracious reader as a child reading anything from classics to cheap dime store novels.
