Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle -- of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a "true" Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother's rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too "faas" or too "quiet" or...
Short stories, Canadian
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Auteur:Munro, AliceSommaire:Men and women, in the midst of contemporary quandaries and crises, recall the long-buried yearnings, dreams, and hard choices that have given shape to their lives.
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Auteur:Weaver, KeithSommaire:What might happen when one tries to move a railway station? Do you know where Jericho is? Can someone could become rich based on knowledge of an obsolete size of paper? Ever had nightmares about a pitcher plant? In Fool's Cap and...
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Auteur:Sonik, MadelineSommaire:Linked short stories based in the imaginary city of Fontainebleau, on the banks of the Detroit River. There's something poisonous in the water, something menacing in the sky, and the soil, laced with an ancient curse, is yielding...
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Auteur:Schoemperlen, DianeSommaire:A reSet original, 'First Things First' gathers 18 of the best of Diane Schoemperlen's earliest and uncollected stories, with several being published in book form for the first time. Playfully inventive, comic, moving and profound, this...
- Auteur:Mayoff, StevenSommaire:
Belonging and the search for home and family are at the center of the title story, "Fatted Calf Blues." Here, a woman hitchhikes home to Alberta to see her dying father. At a truck stop near Dauphin, Manitoba she meets a...
- Auteur:Hopkinson, NaloSommaire:
In this long-awaited collection, Hopkinson continues to expand the boundaries of culture and imagination. Whether she is retelling The Tempest as a new Caribbean myth, filling a shopping mall with unfulfilled ghosts, or herding chickens...
- Auteur:Sanford Blades, SusanSommaire:
Fake it so Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle--the future of "no future"--and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen look-alike, meets Damian, the...
- Auteur:Tamayose, DarcySommaire:
Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra's Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, as well as a deep understanding of grief and what it makes of us. Within...
- Auteur:Novakovich, JosipSommaire:
Short story writer, novelist and essayist Josip Novakovich returns with his first collection of stories since being named a finalist for the prestigious 2013 Man Booker International prize. In Ex-Yu, he explores the major themes of war...
- Auteur:Tarnopolsky, DamianSommaire:
Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monster offers an unfolding puzzle of the human psyche that is at once explosive, funny, dark, sweet, pained, and utterly strange. From the tangled threads of a messed-up family...
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Auteur:Goodhand, SeywardSommaire:Even That Wildest Hope bursts with vibrant, otherworldly characters-wax girls and gods-among-men, artists on opposite sides of a war, aimless plutocrats and anarchist urchins-who are sometimes wondrous, often grotesque, and always...
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Auteur:Clark, TrevorSommaire:From the author of the novels Love on the Killing Floor and Dragging the River, Trevor Clark’s new collection of stories covers broad territory, from an addict’s confessions to the corruption of academia, in such diverse locales as...
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Auteur:Claude BolducSommaire:Une maison, c'est la sécurité. C'est aussi un signe de réussite, c'est même l'ultime refuge de qui cherche à s'isoler. Lorsque Jacques voit se présenter la chance de quitter son logement miteux et d'...
- Auteur:Hofmann, KarenSommaire:
In this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuous imagery, Hofmann considers a range of human...
- Auteur:Trunkey, LauraSommaire:
City of Victoria Butler Book Prize finalist. Intensely imaginative and darkly emotional, the weird and wonderful stories in Double Dutch deftly alternate between fantasy and reality, transporting readers into strange worlds that are at...
- Auteur:Kellough, KaieSommaire:
Dominoes at the Crossroads maps an alternate Canada—one crisscrossed by a Caribbean diaspora seeking futures, portals to the past, and music. In this collection of stories, Kaie Kellough's characters navigate race, history, and...
- Auteur:Doyle, TerrySommaire:
In twelve dialed-in and exceptionally honed short stories, Terry Doyle presents an enduring assortment of characters channelled through the chain reactions of misfortune and redemption. A construction worker's future is bound to a...
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Auteur:Virgo, SeánSommaire:A primitive story of transgression and transformation weaves its way through the centuries and cultures into the lives and conflicts and personal dramas of our own time. Seán Virgo traces its journey and the guises it takes on,...
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Auteur:Hardcastle, KevinSommaire:The eleven remarkable stories in Kevin Hardcastle's debut Debris introduce an authentic new voice. Written in a lean and muscular style and brimming with both violence and compassion, these stories unflinchingly explore the lives of...
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