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This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it’s through language and the body ― particularly through language as it lives inside the body ― that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. This idea of breaking apart and coming back together is woven throughout the collection as the speaker contemplates the ongoing negotiation between the city, the land, and the water, and as she finds herself falling into trust with the ones she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVermette honours the river as a woman ― her destructive power and beauty, her endurance, and her stories. These poems sing from a place where “words \/ transcend ceremony \/ into everyday” and “nothing \/ is inanimate.”\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:33-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:17:45-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Bestseller","Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Environmentalism","Adult Poetry","By (author) Vermette Katherena","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2018-09-25"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"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":40205700530235,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003463","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"river woman - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":140,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487003463","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205701808187,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003470","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"river woman - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487003470","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40205702758459,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006266","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"river woman - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006266","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0efe0ea4-c116-4175-bc7c-b2bb8b11c742.jpg?v=1679036304"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0efe0ea4-c116-4175-bc7c-b2bb8b11c742.jpg?v=1679036304","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23339000660027,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2473,"width":1600,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0efe0ea4-c116-4175-bc7c-b2bb8b11c742.jpg?v=1679036304"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2473,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0efe0ea4-c116-4175-bc7c-b2bb8b11c742.jpg?v=1679036304","width":1600}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGovernor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, explores her relationship to nature — its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of the illusion of linear experience. This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it’s through language and the body ― particularly through language as it lives inside the body ― that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. This idea of breaking apart and coming back together is woven throughout the collection as the speaker contemplates the ongoing negotiation between the city, the land, and the water, and as she finds herself falling into trust with the ones she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVermette honours the river as a woman ― her destructive power and beauty, her endurance, and her stories. These poems sing from a place where “words \/ transcend ceremony \/ into everyday” and “nothing \/ is inanimate.”\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of the illusion of linear experience. This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it’s through language and the body ― particularly through language as it lives inside the body ― that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. This idea of breaking apart and coming back together is woven throughout the collection as the speaker contemplates the ongoing negotiation between the city, the land, and the water, and as she finds herself falling into trust with the ones she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVermette honours the river as a woman ― her destructive power and beauty, her endurance, and her stories. 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Vermette’s poetics are sparse, haunting, and steeped in river story, and her poems come to me as river songs. There is a presencing rhythm to this work, revealing that which is and always has been, flowing right in front of us.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of This Accident of Being Lost","OtherText_Accolades_1":"In river woman, Katherena Vermette marshals the maternal energy of the river to spin the lyric poem into something that is awash with vitality. This ethic of care, which each section bears and ricochets about, has at its core a project of repair or nourishment, not just of the natural, but of those of us entangled with it. This us, Vermette deftly shows, is not an empty thing, but is instead teeming with Indigenous life — ‘we are the earth you are hurting.’ We are the river and, in this, we are without end, regardless of what history swells in us. Pick up this book and listen for the musicality of our beautiful rebellion!","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of This Wound is a World, winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERNATIONALLY RESPECTED:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eKatherena’s work has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies across the globe, including in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (Rosarium Press, Baltimore), and Kwe: Standing with Our Sisters (edited by Joseph Boyden, Penguin Random House Canada).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRELEVANT AND TIMELY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMuch attention has been drawn this year and last to Indigenous issues in North America, and in the United States particularly surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Indigenous voices and postcolonial issues are rising to the fore, and it’s becoming increasingly crucial to recognize and give space to these voices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"These spare, imagistic poems live up to the words of the Vietnamese spiritual leader Thich Nhat Hanh, quoted in an epigraph: ‘If our hearts are big, we can be like the river.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"A book that is at once deeply personal and politically charged.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"Vermette’s new collection is a strong follow-up to her Governor General’s Award-winning debut, 2012’s North End Love Songs.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-09-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.
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{"id":6814246862907,"title":"Seven Fallen Feathers","handle":"seven-fallen-feathers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. 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They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487001278","AlsoRecommendedISBN_5":"9781487006839","AlsoRecommendedISBN_6":"9781770899377","BASICMainSubject":"BIO028000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"BIOGRAPHY \u0026 AUTOBIOGRAPHY \/ Cultural, Ethnic \u0026 Regional \/ Indigenous","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTANYA TALAGA\u003c\/strong\u003e is the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e, which was the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities READ: Young Adult\/Adult Award; a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction; CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year, a \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Top 100 Book, and a national bestseller. Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer, and author of the national bestseller \u003cem\u003eAll Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward\u003c\/em\u003e. For more than twenty years she has been a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a columnist at the newspaper. She has been nominated five times for the Michener Award in public service journalism. Talaga is of Polish and Indigenous descent. Her great-grandmother, Liz Gauthier, was a residential school survivor. Her great-grandfather, Russell Bowen, was an Ojibwe trapper and labourer. Her grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation. Her mother was raised in Raith and Graham, Ontario. She lives in Toronto with her two teenage children.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"BIOGRAPHY \u0026amp; AUTOBIOGRAPHY \/ Cultural, Ethnic \u0026amp; Regional \/ Native American \u0026amp; Aboriginal","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POLITICAL SCIENCE \/ Human Rights","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"SOCIAL SCIENCE \/ Indigenous Studies","BISACSubject_0":"BIO028000","BISACSubject_1":"POL035010","BISACSubject_2":"SOC062000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTANYA TALAGA\u003c\/strong\u003e is the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e, which was the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities READ: Young Adult\/Adult Award; a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction; CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year, a \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Top 100 Book, and a national bestseller. 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She lives in Toronto with her two teenage children.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Talaga, Tanya (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. 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She makes the difficult connections between this national tragedy and the greater colonial systems that have endangered our most vulnerable for over a century, and she does it all with a keen, compassionate eye for all involved, especially the families who are too often overlooked. These stories need to be heard. These young people deserve nothing less than to be honoured everywhere.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Katherena Vermette","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Seven Fallen Feathers may prove to be the most important book published in Canada in 2017. Tanya Talaga offers well-researched, difficult truths that expose the systemic racism, poverty, and powerlessness that contribute to the ongoing issues facing Indigenous youth, their families, and their communities. It is a call to action that deeply honours the lives of the seven young people; our entire nation should feel their loss profoundly.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Patti LaBoucane-Benson","OtherText_Accolades_2":"You simply must read this book. Tanya Talaga has done the hard work for us. She sat with the families, heard their stories. Now, with the keen eye and meticulous research of an uncompromising journalist, she is sharing their truths. We have to start listening. Parents are sending their children to school in Thunder Bay to watch them die. Racism, police indifference, bureaucratic ineptitude, lateral violence — it doesn’t have to be this way. Let this book enrage you — and then demand that Canada act now.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Duncan McCue","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s early April and the 2011 federal election is in full swing. All over Canada, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are duking it out with Jack Layton’s New Democrats and the struggling Liberals in a bid to win a majority government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m in Thunder Bay, Ontario, to see Stan Beardy, the Nishawbe-Aski Nation’s grand chief, to interview him for a story on why it is indigenous people never seem to vote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe receptionist at the NAN’s office greets me and ushers me into a large, common meeting room to wait for Stan. Everything in the room is grey — the walls, the tubular plastic tables, the carpets. The only splash of colour is a large white flag with a bear on it that has been tacked to the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great White Bear stands in the centre of a red circle, in the middle of the flag. The white bear is the traditional symbol of the life of the North American Indian. The red circle background is symbolic of the Red Man. His feet are standing, planted firmly on the bottom line, representing the Earth while his head touches the top line, symbolic to his relationship to the Great Spirit in the sky. The bear is stretched out, arms and feet open wide, to show he has nothing to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are circles joining the bear’s rib cage. They are the souls of the people, indigenous songs, and legends. The circles are the ties that bind all the clans together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese circles also offer protection. Without them, the ribcage would expose the great bear’s beating heart and leave it open to harm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan walks in and greets me warmly, his brown eyes twinkling as he takes a seat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan is pensive, quiet, and patient. He says nothing as he wearily leans back in his chair and waits for me to explain why exactly I flew 2,400 km north from Toronto to see him and talk about the federal election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI launch into my spiel, trying not to sound like a salesperson or an interloper into his world, someone who kind of belongs here and kind of does not. This is the curse of my mixed blood. I am the daughter of a half-Anish mom and a Polish father.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI ramble off abysmal voting pattern statistics across Canada, while pointing out that in many ridings indigenous people could act as a swing vote, influencing that riding and hence the trajectory of the election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan stares at me impassively. Non-plussed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo I start firing off some questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt doesn’t go well. Every time I try to engage him, asking him about why indigenous people won’t get in the game and vote, he begins talking about the disappearance of fifteen-year-old Jordan Wabasse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a frustrating exchange, like we were speaking two different languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Indigenous voters could influence fifty seats across the country if they got out and voted but they don’t. Why?” I ask.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Why aren’t you writing a story on Jordan Wabasse? He has been gone seventy-one days now,” replies Stan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stephen Harper has been no friend to indigenous people yet if everyone voted, they could swing the course of this election,” I continue, hoping he’ll bite at the sound of Harper’s name. The man is no friend of the Indians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“They found a shoe down by the water. Police think it might have been his,” replies Stan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis went on for a good fifteen minutes. I was annoyed. I knew a missing Grade 9 indigenous student in Thunder Bay would not make news in urban Toronto at Canada’s largest daily newspaper. I could practically see that election bus rolling away without me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen I remembered my manners and where I was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was sitting with the elected grand chief of 23,000 people and he was clearly trying to tell me something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI tried a new tactic. I’d ask about Jordan and then I’d swing around and get him to talk about elections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Stan said: “Jordan is the seventh student to go missing or die while at school.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan says their names: “Reggie Bushie. Jethro Anderson. Paul Panacheese. Curran Strang. Robyn Harper. Kyle Morrisseau. And now, Jordan Wabasse.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe then tells me the seven were hundreds of miles away from their home communities and families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach was forced to leave their reserve simply because there was no high school for them to attend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Going to high school is the right of every Canadian child,” says Stan, adding that these children are no different.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[A]n urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from their homes and families. . . . Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising. . . . The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"What is happening in Thunder Bay is particularly destructive, but Talaga makes clear how Thunder Bay is symptomatic, not the problem itself. Recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Talaga’s is a book to be justly infuriated by.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"Tanya Talaga investigates the deaths of seven Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Robyn Harper, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Kyle Morrisseau, and Jordan Wabasse — searching for answers and offering a deserved censure to the authorities who haven’t investigated, or considered the contributing factors, nearly enough.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_4":"[W]here Seven Fallen Feathers truly shines is in Talaga’s intimate retellings of what families experience when a loved one goes missing, from filing a missing-persons report with police, to the long and brutal investigation process, to the final visit in the coroner’s office. It’s a heartbreaking portrait of an indifferent and often callous system . . . Seven Fallen Feathers is a must-read for all Canadians. It shows us where we came from, where we’re at, and what we need to do to make the country a better place for us all.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The Walrus","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The shocking true story of seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city over the span of seven years.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_10":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_11":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_12":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_13":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_14":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_4":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_5":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_6":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_7":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_8":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_9":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_10":"03","PrizeCode_11":"03","PrizeCode_12":"03","PrizeCode_13":"03","PrizeCode_14":"03","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeCode_4":"01","PrizeCode_5":"01","PrizeCode_6":"01","PrizeCode_7":"04","PrizeCode_8":"05","PrizeCode_9":"03","PrizeName_0":"Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction","PrizeName_1":"B.C. 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Seven Fallen Feathers
The shocking true story of seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city over the span of seven years.
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Shrewed
An intelligent and insightful collection of essays on women and feminism from bestselling author and Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti.
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It will be years before this is fully realized by those who escape the scene or are thrown into adulthood by overdose or pregnancy. These lucky few will feel overwhelmingly, retroactively embarrassed by their one-time rock star fantasies. Olive can hear them bawling about their supposed betrayals as clouds of tobacco smoke and slurry syllables updraft skyward through the slightly parted window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Olive forgives them their make-believe follies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are no better or worse than most of the half well-off, half grown-up humans she has met. They are just flawed and vulnerable to the pitch. Olive is no different. She has chased the white dragon into smoky rooms where grad students complained about unkindly thesis feedback while wearing thousand dollar watches. A holiday-tanned winter wrist, a baggie held aloft, another Volvo fob serving key bumps round the ring. Under such circumstances, Olive is for the most part silent. She can pass for one of them until she releases language into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlive often holds her rural tongue for fear of being found out. She is not a card-carrying member of the townie majority. And rarely are there other fugitive faces for Olive to hide behind on nights when she wants to get on the go. There was a Mexican painter once. A Russian musician. There was the one Pakistani fellow whose name Olive could never recall. She did not think it was unpronounceable, she just could not pronounce it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are lots of words still beyond her reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Olive can think of no words to describe the pain felt where her pants nearly meet her feet. She winces and tucks her chin farther inside her coat. She tries to push her neck back to save from catching skin in the zipper. She sniffs back hard and swallows a slippery lob. Her grandmother would not approve of hoarding mucus in the body but her grandmother would not approve of much of what she does lately. Olive sighs and swells and swallows spit to slide the lob along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOllie my dollie, get a tissue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer grandmother’s voice is always a program running in the back of her mind. But Olive can’t sacrifice a tissue on mere mucus this morning. Her store of napkins is running low and the last time she tried to hock and spit the wind gust blew snot back onto her sleeve. The line of mucus running from her lips to her elbow turned her weak stomach over. A middle-aged woman in a bright blue Canada Goose coat muttered oh for the love of god as she hurried past the translucent boundary. This made Olive feel gross.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe swallows that gross feeling down again while she waits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe can distract herself for a time from the damp soak settling in her heels by watching the craven-faced respectable people meander to their grown-up jobs after a weekend of pretending to be twenty-five. They are not twenty-five. They are not even thirty-five and feel as such. Most internally promise to stay home with the kids next weekend as they turn their faces to or from the sunshine depending on the quantity of painkillers ingested in the car. This temporary commitment to sobriety is bookended by revolving party systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome relish vitamin D while others resent it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe division will not last long, though, as the sun already has started to duck back inside the nimbostratus. It will storm again today as surely as the nearly forty will go out again in four days’ time. The babysitter will be called. The cat will be let in. They will flee their houses for a little look around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet the stink of house off ya.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey will reliably cloak this smell of domestication in alcohol and nicotine and self-loathing until Monday. Mondays are for quitting everything. Again. Except when it storms on Monday. Then quitting everything is pushed to Tuesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday is such a Tuesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe weekend warriors refuse to sell out and so have fully bought in pound for pound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlive is just the same. She too had been sold the notion of party drugs as lazy fun and then fast gobbled them hand over fist. Swallow, snort, smoke; ingestion is an irrelevant matter of personal preference and ease. There is no wall to wall them out. Or in. Drug trends are trendingalong regardless of national media reports daily updating all on their progress east and upward. Olive has watched the same scenes play out on repeat in dark corners of the late night since arriving in Sin Jawns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they’ve gone and stashed the kits everywhere to protect against the siren call. A first line of defence kept behind wine bars. Under the bathroom sink. In purses. And Olive knows she must address the long list of reasons why self-medicare is needed to comfort her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEventually. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"The lure of Coles’s often glorious use of language and the importance of reading books that do exactly what Small Game Hunting does — force the reader to face truths that have been hidden and swept away for far too long, to be made uncomfortable and prompted to think rather than be simply entertained — are reason enough to give this up-and-coming author’s new work serious consideration.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"What recommends this novel most is the way its author stays with her characters’ hurt, how she holds it without reverence but understands how those wounds can motivate like nothing else . . . Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club is a dark, taut, funny novel that feels for its characters’ pain while remaining caustic toward the enablers and the kinds of violence that polite society allows.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"A profound read, offering up perfectly crafted sentences in the thoughts of the motley cast of characters.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Canadian Living","OtherText_Review_3":"Although Small Game Hunting is often tragic and heartbreaking, its finale offers a glimmer of hope that we are invited to be brave and wait for. The hope that sees women, both tattered and changed by the work of male violence and power, not at a loss for agency or warmth. In the end, Coles’s powerful novel is a tale of resilience.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Rabble.ca","OtherText_Review_4":"Early in Small Game Hunting, a Nigerian immigrant asks the heroine about her true origins: ‘You don’t look all white,’ he says. In other words, this is not your traditional Newfoundland novel of social isolation. Instead, Megan Gail Coles portrays the harsh existence of the islanders as emblematic of the human condition itself. The characters’ lives unfold around a fine restaurant. They are physically and emotionally crippled by their society’s devastating inequalities, the women psychologically maimed by repeated sexual assault. Coles’s narrator storms against the status quo in a kinetic novel that dazzles, challenges, and exhilarates.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_5":"Beautifully fluid writing pulls the reader right in and keeps them gliding along. 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Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel exposes class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.
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This is a biting, soaring novel.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and No One is Here Except All of Us","OtherText_Review_1":"Claire Fuller's acrobatic new novel, about a family who has failed each other, inverts our expectations of narrative time to an astonishing effect: our experience of grasping for truth about those who have left is just as pained and urgent as her characters’. Fuller’s sentences are condensed maps of the human process, unfolding in patterns we immediately recognize.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kathleen Alcott, author of Infinite Home","OtherText_Review_2":"Claire Fuller has captured love in its fullest form, nursed on betrayal and regret and guilt. Gil cheats on and abandons his wife too many times, until she disappears, leaving her clothing on the beach, and he can't know even if she's still alive. She leaves only letters, hidden in a great library of books, and he'll search for her until his end. Swimming Lessons is so smoothly, beautifully written, and the human failures here are heartbreaking.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"David Vann, author of Aquarium","OtherText_Review_3":"Swimming Lessons continues Claire Fuller’s mastery of beautiful language and heartbreaking imagery, which lays bare the stories of infidelities, lies, revivals of love and then demise of those loves. The women of this novel fight for their very souls, and their stories unfurl like flags of independence appearing in to wave from her landscape of great books and art and hope.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Susan Straight, author of Between Heaven and Here","OtherText_Review_4":"As in her gorgeously harrowing Our Endless Numbered Days, Claire Fuller returns to the territory of a mother’s disappearance and a father’s lies with bewitching and page-turning results. If anything, Swimming Lessons is an even more complex puzzle box of a book, excavating darkly knotted family secrets, intricately cruel betrayals and layers of ambiguous loss. Fuller is so clear eyed, poised and psychologically shrewd in the unfolding of her tale, you will be kept guessing until the final penetrating sentence. An extraordinarily smart and satisfying read.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife","OtherText_Review_5":"Saving the best for last with revelations and surprises, Fuller’s well-crafted, intricate tale captures the strengths and shortcomings of ordinary people to show how healing is possible by confronting the darkest places.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_6":"Fuller’s tale is eloquent, harrowing, raw . . . [this] mystery is sure to keep readers inching off their seats.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_7":"As she did in her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days (2015), Fuller proves to be a master of temporal space, taking readers through flashbacks and epistolary chapters at a pace timed to create wonder and suspense. It’s her beautiful prose, though, that rounds this one out, as she delves deeply to examine the legacies of a flawed and passionate marriage.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A woman disappears without a trace. Twelve years later, her adult daughter starts finding answers hidden in the books that her mother left behind.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-01-28","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A woman disappears without a trace. 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Swimming Lessons
A woman disappears without a trace. Twelve years later, her adult daughter starts finding answers hidden in the books that her mother left behind.
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{"id":6813785358395,"title":"Tessa and Scott","handle":"tessa-and-scott","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTessa and Scott share their incredible and inspiring story — now updated and expanded with a new introduction, over 100 dazzling new photographs, and three all-new chapters covering the pair’s stunning performances at the Sochi and PyeongChang Olympic Games and beyond.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTessa Virtue and Scott Moir are the most decorated figure skaters in the history of the sport, and are widely celebrated by peers and fans alike for their superior athleticism, one-of-a-kind partnership, and generosity of spirit. In these pages, they share their incredible story with the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intimate and revealing behind-the-scenes look at the iconic duo. 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Tessa and Scott
Tessa and Scott share their incredible and inspiring story — now updated and expanded with a new introduction and three all-new chapters.
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{"id":7118293598267,"title":"The Age of Insecurity","handle":"the-age-of-insecurity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism—originate from a social order built on insecurity. 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That time is now.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The Tyee","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eTaylor makes the case for clearing away capitalism’s distracting, destabilising regime; Keltner for expanding and more clearly valuing our connections to each other, to our own depths and capacities, and to the grandeur and order of the world beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New Statesman","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eA handbook for a new way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eAstra Taylor’s \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Insecurity\u003c\/em\u003e made me feel I understood something obvious that I had overlooked before ... that we on the left can (and need to) offer a different, better conception of security.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Current Affairs","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eThe Age of Insecurity \u003c\/em\u003edoesn’t tackle those challenging questions. 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What makes this book worth the reader’s time is its idiosyncratic blend of the personal and the public, the emotional and the economic.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Commonweal Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003eA must-read.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Peace News","OtherText_Review_quote_0":"\u003cp\u003eAstra Taylor is a rare public intellectual, utterly committed to asking humanity's most profound questions yet entirely devoid of pretensions and compulsively readable.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_quote_0_Auth":"Naomi Klein","OtherText_Review_quote_1":"\u003cp\u003eWhether she is writing about gender discrimination in the tech industry, the plight of refugees, or the rights of the natural world, Taylor reveals in her essays a forthright commitment to “the cause of common humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_quote_1_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_quote_2":"\u003cp\u003eBlending big-picture thinking with the history of the populist struggle in America [Taylor] makes a strong case that the time for change is now.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_quote_2_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese days, everyone feels insecure. 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The Age of Insecurity
These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?
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Whittall’s undisputed talent as a writer shines, as does her understanding into the complexity of our sympathies, our morality, and our humanity. With The Best Kind of People, Whittall has created an urgent and timely document, one that asks us to reflect on how we can best serve survivors of abuse and best support all of those who exist in its aftermath. With incredible empathy, and undeniable skill, this book is sure to spark much needed dialogue, vital debate, and richly deserved acclaim.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Stacey May Fowles, author of Infidelity","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Zoe Whittall's novel gets into the hearts and minds of an ordinary family forced to confront the monstrous. There are no heroes and no villains in this world — there are only people grappling with guilt and truth. This novel is a timely discussion of what we owe those who abuse and those who are targeted in our communities. It's a compelling exploration of the ways a crime implicates all of us.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"The Best Kind of People is a story with so many shades of grey that you won’t know what to believe but you’re guaranteed to feel almost every emotion possible while reading this new novel.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_1":"The Best Kind of People examines the effects of rape culture on an entire community with rare nuance and insight. Every character is fully rounded, flawed, and achingly human. It puts me in mind of a twenty-first-century Ordinary People — which, for the record, is one of my favourite novels.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_2":"Heartbreaking and complex, The Best Kind of People offers no easy answers. This is a masterly exploration of the damage an entire community incurs when the secret at the heart of its most perfect family detonates.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_3":"The jury found Zoe Whittall’s The Best Kind of People urgent and timely, nuanced and brave. This gripping story challenges how we hear women and girls, and dissects the self-hypnosis and fear that prevent us from speaking disruptive truth. With subversive precision and solid veracity, Whittall calls into question pervasive forms of silence and acquiescence.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_4":"Exquisitely emotional","OtherText_Quote_from_review_5":"Toronto author Zoe Whittall’s new novel The Best Kind of People is the best kind of book — it’s got a compelling story characters readers will recognize and come to love and writing that makes it effortless to turn page after page.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_6":"Zoe Whittall's novel gets into the hearts and minds of an ordinary family forced to confront the monstrous. There are no heroes and no villains in this world — there are only people grappling with guilt and truth. This novel is a timely discussion of what we owe those who abuse and those who are targeted in our communities. It's a compelling exploration of the ways a crime implicates all of us.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_7":"An astounding portrait of a character by omission.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_8":"With incredibly rare nuance, sensitivity, and insight, Zoe Whittall takes us deep into our contemporary conversation around sexual violence and shines a vital spotlight on the individuals and communities that live in its long shadow. Whittall’s undisputed talent as a writer shines, as does her understanding into the complexity of our sympathies, our morality, and our humanity. With The Best Kind of People, Whittall has created an urgent and timely document, one that asks us to reflect on how we can best serve survivors of abuse and best support all of those who exist in its aftermath. With incredible empathy, and undeniable skill, this book is sure to spark much needed dialogue, vital debate, and richly deserved acclaim.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_9":"The Best Kind of People is all-of-a-piece and well worth the read not only for what it adds to the conversation about accusation and rape, but also for the pleasure it offers to those who like a good story.","OtherText_Quot_10":"Nuanced to the end, Whittall’s novel achieves something that’s rare in real-life cases of sexual violence. She gives a voice to the ones we never hear from: those who are collateral damage.","OtherText_Quot_11":"Fast-paced . . . but never melodramatic.","OtherText_Quot_12":"Whittall places the reader right at the centre of their pain. It’s the best depiction of female suffering I’ve read since Jane Smiley eloquently tackled sexual abuse in A Thousand Acres.","OtherText_Review_0":"Whittall places the reader right at the centre of their pain. It’s the best depiction of female suffering I’ve read since Jane Smiley eloquently tackled sexual abuse in A Thousand Acres.” — Toronto Star“Nuanced to the end, Whittall’s novel achieves something that’s rare in real-life cases of sexual violence. She gives a voice to the ones we never hear from: those who are collateral damage.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_1":"Toronto author Zoe Whittall’s new novel The Best Kind of People is the best kind of book — it’s got a compelling story, characters readers will recognize and come to love, and writing that makes it effortless to turn page after page.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"Fast-paced … but never melodramatic.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Maclean’s","OtherText_Review_3":"Exquisitely emotional.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Owen Sound Sun Times","OtherText_Review_4":"An astounding portrait of a character by omission.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_5":"Whittall raises her game dramatically in this Giller-shortlisted novel.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"NOW Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"A story like this never ends… . A humane, clear eyed attempt to explore the ripple effects of sexual crime.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From award-winning author Zoe Whittall comes The Best Kind of People, a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeYear_0":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2016-08-27","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"From award-winning author Zoe Whittall comes The Best Kind of People, a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family."}
The Best Kind of People
From award-winning author Zoe Whittall comes The Best Kind of People, a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family.
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Reading The Break is like a revelation; stunning, heartbreaking and glorious. From her exquisitely rendered characters to her fully realized world and the ratcheting tension, I couldn’t put it down. Absolutely riveting.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach","OtherText_Review_1":"The narrator of this story is dead. He misses feeling the skin of others, but he likes being about memory. It’s who we are siem. Katherena Vermette rendered the women of the North End gorgeous in her poetry: North End Love Songs. In The Break, she renders them sweet, beautiful battlers who love under the most horrific of circumstances. She points no fingers, just plots the story, person by person, memory by memory, until it is clear that we must give up the feeling of hopelessness that haunts the lives of these women. The Break is itself a beautiful love song of desire to live a full and rich life as cherished women — even when we cannot have that. We can hope. Resilient as the star world from which they arise these women reconcile with their lives without giving in to the horrors they have faced. Vermette captures the reader from beginning to end. She creates unforgettable characters with honor, respect and a deft hand. In so doing she holds the reader’s tender love in her capable hands and weaves us right into the story. The Break is unforgettable.","OtherText_Review_10":"A visionary debut novel.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"CBC Books","OtherText_Review_11":"Stunning . . . [Vermette] chooses her words with a poet’s precision.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_12":"One of the great Indigenous novels.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"First Nations Voice","OtherText_Review_13":"Katherena Vermette’s debut novel, The Break, takes a tough, close-up look at an extended family in Winnipeg, tackling along the way a side of female life that’s often hard to acknowledge: the violence of girls and women sometimes display towards other girls and women, and the power struggles among them. In The Break, the characters may be Métis, but the motivations and emotions are surely universal. This is an accomplished writer who will go far.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Margaret Atwood","OtherText_Review_14":"A debut novel brimming with grace and wisdom, that puts the spotlight on the systemic violence being committed in our country, [The Break] is both a wake-up call and a call-to-arms. Vital.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_15":"It’s a timely novel that will keep you turning the pages and make you think well after you’ve turned the final one.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Niagara This Week","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Lee Maracle, author of Celia’s Song","OtherText_Review_2":"The lives of the girls and women in The Break are not easy, but their voices — complex, urgent, and unsparing — lay bare what it means to survive, not only once, but multiple times, against the forces of private and national histories. Katherena Vermette is a tremendously gifted writer, a dazzling talent.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing","OtherText_Review_3":"Fiction is capable of helping us to comprehend difference and otherness, and The Break offers clear insight ino people struggling to secure a place in the world.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_4":"Katherena Vermette’s poignant novel, set in Winnipeg’s North End, opens with a violent crime that becomes the backdrop for a story of great depth and compassion. This masterfully written narrative shifts among the intergenerational voices of the women of one extended Indigenous family. The Break is a powerful, persuasive novel about the strength and love that bind these women to each other and to the men in their lives. The traditions and wisdom of a community are honoured, as is the exquisite individual humanity of each character. Although this is a novel of social importance, it transcends politics, taking the reader on a journey to the heart of what it means for one person to care about another, survive trauma, and endure.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"2016 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury Lauren B. Davis, Trevor Ferguson, and Pasha Malla","OtherText_Review_5":"The Break manages to be political even when it isn’t. It’s a book that explores social issues without ever preaching, or even seeming to be about them at all. It examines the only element of those issues that matter: their human impact. It’s astonishing in its empathy... She doesn’t pull her punches or dress up her truths. The Break leaves it all bare, and it demands to be read.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The Uniter","OtherText_Review_6":"Vermette is skilled at writing with a language that is conversational and comfortable and with a poetic ease that makes the hard things easier to swallow. The result is a book that is at times emotionally demanding, funny, suspenseful, and always engaging.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_7":"Vermette offers us a dazzling portrayal of the patchwork quilt of\r\npain and trauma that women inherit, of the \"big and small half-stories\r\nthat make up a life.\" These are the stories our mothers, sisters and\r\nfriends have told us - the stories we absorb into our bloodstream\r\nuntil they might as well be our own.\r\n\r\n..a stunning debut - a novel whose 10 voices, Greek chorus-like, span\r\nthe full range of human possibility, from its lowest depths to its\r\nmost brilliant triumphs, as they attempt to make sense of this tragic\r\ncrime and of their own lives. \"The Break\" is an astonishing act of\r\nempathy, and its conclusion is heartbreaking. A thriller gives us easy\r\nanswers - a victim and a perpetrator, good guys and bad guys. \"The\r\nBreak\" gives us the actual mess of life.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"With adeptness and sensitivity, Vermette puts a human face to issues that are too-often misunderstood, and in so doing, she has written a book that is both one of the most important of the year and one of the best.\r\n \r\nThough Katherena Vermette is not an emerging writer – she has written seven children’s books and won a Governor General’s award for her poetry collection North End Love Songs – for many, this novel will be their first encounter. And it will be a revelation. Vermette is a fully matured literary talent confronting some of our society’s fundamental problems through understated prose that exudes wisdom and emotion. Every page hides beauty amid suffering; love winning out over violence and hate. Stella, at one point in the novel, thinks about “[a] story that didn’t happen to her but that she keeps and remembers.” The Break is like that; it is a story that will stick with you a long time.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_Review_9":"In Vermette’s poetic prose, The Break offers a stark portrayal of the adversity that plagues First Nations women in this country — and the strength that helps them survive.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"The Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_4":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_5":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_6":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"01","PrizeCode_4":"01","PrizeCode_5":"01","PrizeCode_6":"04","PrizeName_0":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_1":"Governor General's Literary Award","PrizeName_2":"Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction","PrizeName_3":"Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award","PrizeName_4":"McNally Robinson Book of the Year","PrizeName_5":"Amazon.ca First Novel Award","PrizeName_6":"Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Literature","PrizeYear_0":"2016","PrizeYear_1":"2016","PrizeYear_2":"2017","PrizeYear_3":"2017","PrizeYear_4":"2017","PrizeYear_5":"2017","PrizeYear_6":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-09-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001117\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Break
A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.
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At a time when capitalism seems most unforgiving but the need for paying work remains high, it is important to learn how we can be more mindful and intentional about our impact — personal, social, economic, and environmental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs designer and creative director Kelly Small had to do to navigate a crisis of ethics and burnout in their career in advertising, we can admit our complicity in problematic systems and take on the responsibility of letting our own conscience guide our decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStart with one or many of these 100+ rigorously researched, ultra-practical action steps:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCo-create and collaborate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGet obsessed with accessibility\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDemand diverse teams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommit to self-care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake ethics a competitive edge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBe mindful of privilege\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreate for empowerment, not exploitation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a humorous and irreverent tone, Small reveals how when we release unnecessary judgement and become action-oriented, we can clarify the complicated business of achieving an ethical practice in the creative industries. Discover the power of incremental, positive changes in our daily work-lives and the fulfillment of purposeful work.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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This vital book makes a clear and compelling argument about why creatives need to make a non-negotiable commitment to ethics, and it’s filled with numerous accessible strategies for how to put those ethics into action.","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Kat Vellos, designer, facilitator, and author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships","OtherText_Accolades_7":"\u003cp\u003eA vast toolbox of fantastic ideas that I will use in my work and share with others. 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Being aware of the impact of the systems within which we operate can empower us with an enriched understanding of the work that we do and, hopefully, help us advocate for change. There is a fine line between being aware of issues and being crushed by the weight of the systemic problems we face. Aim for the former to stay in a headspace of action and empowerment, and remember, we can’t single-handedly save the world in one profound act. What we \u003cem\u003ecan\u003c\/em\u003e do is implement some of the actions outlined in this book, and develop some of our own, to effect incremental change toward a more equitable world.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelp your Audience Live (Mentally) Healthily\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eOver the years there have been all sorts of sketchy ways the creative industries have been complicit in manufacturing needs. 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Advocating for change can require long hours, emotional labour, mental fortitude, and a requirement for presence in collective action not always available to those whose safety, mental health, or physical health may be compromised. To be supportive allies in the pursuit of a better world, we must start with an understanding of the complex systems that can impact our abilities to act. When we withdraw judgment from other people’s choices, we can remember to do the same for ourselves. Usually we are doing the best we can with the awareness and the resources we have at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Kelly Small’s experience as a former creative director provides valuable insight … Small’s thorough breakdown of ethical concerns in the workplace can benefit anyone wanting to grow as an ally in a nation rife with issues of disparity.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Cascade","OtherText_Review_1":"What Kelly Small brings to the table is a healthy dose of both inspiration and practicality … Kelly Small’s personal story is an inspiration in itself, shared throughout the book with candour and courage. 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The Conscious Creative
An actionable guide to mindfulness and practical ethics for any creative professional who wants to make a living without selling their soul.
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The Law of Dreams
The Law of Dreams follows Fergus O'Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond.
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[\u003cem \u003eThe Librarianist\u003c\/em\u003e] never strays far from what makes his novels so delightful: his dexterity with language, his interest in what happens when words fail, and the rare moments where they land.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Walrus","OtherText_Review_18":"\u003cp\u003eQuirky [and] Incredibly unique … Not only entertaining, but award-worthy.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"I've Read This Blog","OtherText_Review_19":"\u003cp\u003eDeWitt is a fabulous stylist and unquestionably gifted storyteller … \u003cem \u003eThe Librarianist \u003c\/em\u003estands out most when [he] explores the depths of human relationships and traces the evolutionary development of one man for whom fellow humans have led to unplanned disappointments.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Canadian Notes and Queries","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eA bittersweet tale of a retired librarian … deWitt imbues the people he meets with color and quirks, leaving a trail of sparks … This one gradually takes hold until it won’t let go.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eThe Librarianist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong \u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis another charmer from an author who knows how to delight.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Bookpage","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eA page-turner… an entertaining menagerie of strange characters and numerous apt and evocative phrases. And the divergent possibilities in the novel’s ambiguous ending scene give readers two very different stories to ponder after the final word.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Willamette Week","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003eBright and entertaining from beginning to end.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Minneapolis Star Tribune","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003edeWitt’s great gift lies in his ability to depict the Everyman in extremis – heroism hidden in plain sight.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Daily Telegraph","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003eA touching, affectionate novel showing, without cliché or agenda, that engagement in old age is a courageous act to be applauded.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Big Issue","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003edeWitt’s writing and endearing characters create a memorable world.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Los Angeles Times","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003edeWitt is at his best writing dramatic and comedic scenes … He’s a writer who plays with the conventions of the realist novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"British Columbia Review","OtherText_Review_quote_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdditional Praise for Patrick deWitt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“One of this country’s most distinct voices in fiction.” —\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“deWitt is a stealth absurdist, with a flair for dressing up rhyme as reason.” —\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“My take on Patrick deWitt is that he is a thrilling writer likely to last past our soon-to-be-bygone time.” —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I will read every book Patrick deWitt writes … deWitt’s writing is always intriguingly off-center.” —\u003cem\u003ePoets \u0026 Writers \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“deWitt is in possession of a fresh, lively voice that surprises at every turn.” —\u003cem\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“deWitt is the master of episodic structure. 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The Librarianist
A new novel from bestselling author Patrick deWitt explores the life of an ordinary man whose world is turned upside down by a chance encounter.
