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{"id":6813809868859,"title":"Things Are Good Now","handle":"things-are-good-now","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet in East Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and the U.S.,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003ci\u003eThings Are Good Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e examines the weight of the migrant experience on the human psyche. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Djamila Ibrahim’s powerful story collection, women, men, and children who’ve crossed continents in search of a better life find themselves struggling with the chaos of displacement and the religious and cultural clashes they face in their new homes. A maid who travelled to the Middle East lured by the prospect of a well-paying job is trapped in the Syrian war. A female ex-freedom fighter immigrates to Canada only to be relegated to cleaning public washrooms and hospital sheets. A disillusioned civil servant struggles to come to grips with his lover’s imminent departure. A young Muslim Canadian woman who’d married her way to California realizes she’s made a mistake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThings Are Good Now\u003c\/i\u003e is about remorse and the power of memory, and about the hardships of a post-9\/11 reality that labels many as suspicious or dangerous because of their names or skin colour alone. 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This is a book that is as important as it is engaging.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Zoe Whittall","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNever before has there been such interest in immigrant and refugee stories, as well as stories of the African diaspora\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe stories highlight the post-9\/11 realities of immigrants and people of colour in the Western world and in war-torn countries\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eRace and gender — both huge issues — feature in the collection as major themes\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eFrom “Heading Somewhere”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolding the corner post for balance, Sara climbs onto the patio chair. She wraps the bedsheet she’s tied to the ledge like a rope around her arm and slowly climbs over her employers’ second floor balcony and down to the quiet street below. A metre or so before her feet touch the ground, she loses her grip and falls on the asphalt. She gets up quickly, adjusts the duffle bag on her back and looks up towards the house. The lights have not been turned on. She takes a deep breath and searches the dark street for the ride Ahmed, her employers’ gatekeeper had arranged for her. She spots an old van a few metres away. Its rear lights flash twice as agreed upon. She walks towards it as fast as she can without running.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Get in the back,” the driver says from the half-open window before Sara has a chance to make eye contact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cover yourself with that blanket and keep your head down,” he orders with a rushed voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePanic takes over as she slides the van door shut. What if this is a trap? She trusts Ahmed. He didn’t let her out of the compound alone for fear of losing his job but he was nice to her. And he has delivered on the promise of finding her someone who, for a fee, would help her. But this man on the other hand could be taking her to the police station instead of the outskirts of Damascus where she’s supposed to meet someone who will take her to Beirut. She shakes the distressing thought away. There is nothing she can do now but hope for the best.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"This is essential fiction for right now.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"Ibrahim writes with intensity and empathy, drawing believably complex characters who are understandably torn between bleak alternatives. Things Are Good Now feels fresh and raw and real. Amid the disheartening racism and sexism are the pull of patriotism, the solidity of traditionalism, and ultimately, mercifully, the power of even small glimpses of optimism.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"Abounds with literary promise . . . A worthwhile read for its intimate investigations of global unrest.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_3":"Things Are Good Now should be included on every to-be-read list. Each story is powerful and important, and each voice, while fictional, is a perfect representation of hard truths. 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Things Are Good Now
Things Are Good Now explores the scars of violence and the weight of love and guilt on the soul.
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{"id":6812116484155,"title":"Thunder and Light","handle":"thunder-and-light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe second volume in the beloved novelist Marie-Claire Blais’s prize-winning novel cycle — acclaimed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction — reissued in a handsome A List edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 2001, \u003ci\u003eThunder and Light\u003c\/i\u003e is the second volume in Marie-Claire Blais’s prize-winning Soifs series, hailed as one of the greatest undertakings in modern Quebec fiction. Powered by its characters’ gripping exploration of the world’s dark corners, the novel is a teeming microcosm in which boundaries collapse and the extremes and contradictions that animate our times are reconciled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlais locks us directly into the consciousness of her characters, many of whom we met in her previous novel, \u003ci\u003eThese Festive Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, and many that she derives from actual news stories: Jessica, a seven-year-old attempting to beat the world record as the youngest pilot to cross the continent; Nathanaël, a teenager on death row for killing his favourite teacher; Our Lady of the Bags, a modern-day Joan of Arc who lives among Manhattan’s skyscrapers and follows the voices in her head; and Caroline and Jean-Mathieu, aging artists who are fighting to come together again. 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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487000516","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487001339","AlsoRecommendedISBN_6":"9781770892194","BASICMainSubject":"FIC019000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Literary","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS\u003c\/strong\u003e (1939-2001) was the internationally revered author of more than twenty-five books, many of which have been published around the world. In addition to the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, which she won four times, Blais was awarded the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships. 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Thunder and Light
The second in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. An intricate house of cards, delicately but expertly constructed, that shocks us in its perversity and familiarity.
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Waterloo Express
The remarkable debut poetry collection from renowned bestselling novelist and Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet Paulette Jiles.
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{"id":6812116156475,"title":"Watermark","handle":"watermark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Christy Ann Conlin, the critically acclaimed and award winning author of \u003ci\u003eHeave,\u003c\/i\u003e comes a breathtaking and unforgettable collection about how the briefest moment can shape us forever.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these evocative and startling stories, we meet people navigating the elemental forces of love, life, and death. An insomniac on Halifax’s moonlit streets. A runaway bride. A young woman accused of a brutal murder. A man who must live in exile if he is to live at all. A woman coming to terms with her eccentric childhood in a cult on the Bay of Fundy shore. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA master of North Atlantic Gothic, Christy Ann Conlin expertly navigates our conflicting self-perceptions, especially in moments of crisis. 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My father made the house himself and we lived in a tent pitched in a meadow surrounded by forest while he built it. My mother told me this. I remember the tent was green and there was a path through the meadow to the house. I loved this path, which cut through the tall grasses. In the meadow, purple vetch threaded up through the grass stems and touched my mother’s round belly. The grasses grew so high they were taller than me, but I could look up and see how they touched my mother’s breasts. I drew pictures on her stomach with icing coloured with beet and carrot juice. Then she’d let me lick it off. The acreage was mostly forest, except for the clearing around a large, rickety barn. They put a sandbox in the clearing where I played with my pail and shovel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was also a path through the woods. It was a twisting path my father had cut through the pines to the clifftop jutting out from the trees over the Bay of Fundy. He called the path “the labyrinth of life.” It snaked through the forest to the perilous brink of the cliff. The path was difficult and winding, with sharp turns where you had to slow down. My father said this was the main purpose of his pathway: everyone was forced to stop hurrying and consider their journey as it unfolded. People needed to be open to sudden turns and trust the way ahead. Being in the moment would take over and time would lose meaning. Before you knew it, you would arrive at your destination, and le voilà, enlightenment, or éclaircissement, as the French Acadians say, when you reached the bench of wisdom! Every age had an awakening, her father said, with those like him, who were called to be its prophets, ushering in the awakening. 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Watermark is taut, sharp writing.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"Eerie and haunting stories.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"Rich with humanity and atmosphere.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_3":"These stories are deliciously discomfiting … Suspenseful excavations of family secrets, as smart as they are creepy.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_4":"Riveting, disturbing tales … Watermark has enough to fascinate and scare throughout.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From Christy Ann Conlin comes a breathtaking and unforgettable collection about how the briefest moment can shape us forever.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeName_0":"Gold Medal, The Miramichi Reader’s “The Very Best!” Book Awards: Best Short Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_2":"Forest of Reading Evergreen Award","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","PrizeYear_2":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-08-13","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"From Christy Ann Conlin comes a breathtaking and unforgettable collection about how the briefest moment can shape us forever.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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Xanax Cowboy
This edgy, often darkly comedic long poem considers the romanticization of addiction and mental illness via the romanticization of the Wild West.
