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{"id":6818796503099,"title":"19 Knives","handle":"19-knives","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about people, he puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short-story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e. With one of the stories shortlisted for the U.S.'s prestigious O. Henry Prize and several others having won prizes or been published in magazines and journals across North America, this collection brings a major fiction writer to the fore.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T10:30:50-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T09:11:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Adult Starred Reviews","Astoria","By (author) Jarman Mark","pub date: 2000-03-01"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1695,"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":40247947362363,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848025","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"19 Knives - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1695,"weight":209,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848025","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40247951949883,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890862","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"19 Knives - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770890862","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40247954210875,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770895492","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"19 Knives - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770895492","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324591095867,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2514,"width":1627,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2514,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_58eed1d0-413f-4787-a250-805db2eccdb0.jpg?v=1678605857","width":1627}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWith characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about people, he puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short-story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in \u003cem\u003e19 Knives\u003c\/em\u003e. With one of the stories shortlisted for the U.S.'s prestigious O. Henry Prize and several others having won prizes or been published in magazines and journals across North America, this collection brings a major fiction writer to the fore.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487006150","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770893085","AlsoRecommendedISBN_5":"9781770898332","BASICMainSubject":"FIC029000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Short Stories","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003eMark Anthony Jarman is the author of several books. He now teaches at the University of New Brunswick, where he is fiction editor of \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fiddlehead\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Short Stories (single author)","BISACSubject_0":"FIC029000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003eMark Anthony Jarman is the author of several books. 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Henry Prize and several others having won prizes or been published in magazines and journals across North America, this collection brings a major fiction writer to the fore.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9780887848025","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9780887848025\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.44","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Astoria","NumberOfPages":"160","OtherText_Review_0":"Beautiful writing, too, but not too beautiful. Jarman writes the way we'd like to talk, vocabulary tripping easily to tongue, snappy comebacks at just the right moment, never too formal or too painfully colloquial. He never makes a misstep, never puts words that are too big or too small in anyone's mouth; his dialogue sounds like it was transcribed from tape rather than imagined. The verisimilitude of his writing would be unbelievable were it not here on the page waiting to be read - and read it you should, for 19 Knives is short fiction at its finest.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_1":"Each of 19 Knives' 14 stories (all first-person narratives) integrates sparkling linguistic kinetics and honey-like narrative stickiness. Rejecting postmodern cynicism, Jarman celebrates life's ecstatic mysteries. Religious in their own way - finding meaning in music and everyday life, not empty theology - these stories shake like Muddy Waters riding a riff into the dark recesses of the night...Jarman gives us the best stuff. Solid gold.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"It is very irritating to discover a wonderful book published too long ago to be an official 'book of the year.'...Jarman's collection is...brilliant. The writing is extraordinary, the stories are gripping, it is something new.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"A.S. Byatt","OtherText_Review_3":"Jarman's ingenuity is undeniable; his lingual dexterity is prodigious, at times downright acrobatic...The stories are engaging and some are indeed enchanting, pulling the reader into the commonplace and hypnotic.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_4":"The best of many highlights in Jarman's new collection, 19 Knives, ['Burn Man on a Texas Porch'] is not only the best I've story I've read in a year, it's probably one of the best ever written by a Canadian. It's focused, intense, colloquial and darkly funny - carefully crafted while remaining bracingly idiosyncratic...Jarman can do things with a narrative hook and a single strong character that make perennial prize-winners like Bonnie Burnard and Alistair MacLeod seem like candle-dipping dowdies.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Eye Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"The frenzied pace of Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives betrays the influence of the beat writers. But the dark figures who populate his devastating stories are more suggestive of David Foster Wallace...Like a quart of hand-picked berries, the stories offer sweet stabs of delight with enough grit and pesticide to set your teeth on edge.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Elm Street","OtherText_Review_6":"The stories grab on and then pedal on imbalance; they tilt and stay dizzyingly tilted, careering, not necessarily toward any kind of resolution, but toward the marrow of a character's psyche...Voice is the foundation and strength of 19 Knives, and provides the primal energy of the stories...19 Knives is a sinuous, heartbreaking book that probes the fragility of human identity in a fresh, elemental way.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Jarman's short stories employ dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeName_0":"ReLit Awards - Fiction","PrizeYear_0":"2001","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2000-03-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Jarman's short stories employ dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
19 Knives
Jarman's short stories employ dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence.
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{"id":6814272290875,"title":"A Plea for Constant Motion","handle":"a-plea-for-constant-motion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion\u003c\/i\u003e is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, new work of fiction by award-winning author Paul Carlucci\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenetrating and visceral, yet always offset by small moments of tenderness and humour, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful examination of the innate desire in everyone to change their lives and strive for something better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo couples share a disastrous dinner after their children are killed in a botched kidnapping overseas. A teacher with a passion for cartography orchestrates a bizarre apology after intentionally hitting a student. Desperate to be friends, a man ignores his neighbour’s strange behaviour to the peril of himself and others. A young girl babysits for a family friend, dimly aware that her presence is required for more than just childcare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDexterously divided into two parts and a surreal intermission, the characters in these stories find themselves confronted by situations that leave them either struggling to escape or firmly rooted in place. Paul Carlucci’s formidable work is by turns familiar and disquieting, sober and surreal, a stark and carefully crafted examination of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:48-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:30:46-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Carlucci Paul","pub date: 2017-01-21"],"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":40206705295419,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000110","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Plea for Constant Motion - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":320,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000110","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40207010398267,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000127","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Plea for Constant Motion - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000127","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40207010758715,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000134","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Plea for Constant Motion - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487000134","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7b2ed0f4-bac7-442b-bca4-b00b86ff4243.jpg?v=1648387628"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7b2ed0f4-bac7-442b-bca4-b00b86ff4243.jpg?v=1648387628","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":21823496978491,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7b2ed0f4-bac7-442b-bca4-b00b86ff4243.jpg?v=1648387628"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7b2ed0f4-bac7-442b-bca4-b00b86ff4243.jpg?v=1648387628","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion\u003c\/i\u003e is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, new work of fiction by award-winning author Paul Carlucci\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenetrating and visceral, yet always offset by small moments of tenderness and humour, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful examination of the innate desire in everyone to change their lives and strive for something better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo couples share a disastrous dinner after their children are killed in a botched kidnapping overseas. A teacher with a passion for cartography orchestrates a bizarre apology after intentionally hitting a student. Desperate to be friends, a man ignores his neighbour’s strange behaviour to the peril of himself and others. A young girl babysits for a family friend, dimly aware that her presence is required for more than just childcare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDexterously divided into two parts and a surreal intermission, the characters in these stories find themselves confronted by situations that leave them either struggling to escape or firmly rooted in place. Paul Carlucci’s formidable work is by turns familiar and disquieting, sober and surreal, a stark and carefully crafted examination of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487000684","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487002305","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781487006150","BASICMainSubject":"FIC029000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Short Stories","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePAUL CARLUCCI\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Life of Fission\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His stories have been widely published, appearing in \u003cem\u003eThe Puritan\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLittle Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDescant\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCarousel\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEVENT\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRiddle Fence\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. 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A recovering transient, he now lives in Ottawa after almost ten years of roaming across Canada and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Carlucci, Paul","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion\u003c\/i\u003e is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, new work of fiction by award-winning author Paul Carlucci\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenetrating and visceral, yet always offset by small moments of tenderness and humour, \u003ci\u003eA Plea for Constant Motion \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful examination of the innate desire in everyone to change their lives and strive for something better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo couples share a disastrous dinner after their children are killed in a botched kidnapping overseas. A teacher with a passion for cartography orchestrates a bizarre apology after intentionally hitting a student. Desperate to be friends, a man ignores his neighbour’s strange behaviour to the peril of himself and others. A young girl babysits for a family friend, dimly aware that her presence is required for more than just childcare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDexterously divided into two parts and a surreal intermission, the characters in these stories find themselves confronted by situations that leave them either struggling to escape or firmly rooted in place. Paul Carlucci’s formidable work is by turns familiar and disquieting, sober and surreal, a stark and carefully crafted examination of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487000110","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487000110\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Astoria","MetaKeywords":"ambition; dark stories; psychological; chuck palahniuk; africa; british columbia; post apocalyptic; dystopian; murder; sex; assault; violence; ransom; terrorism; black mirror; family; canlit; creative writing; intermission; guts; haunted; choke; survivor; the secret life of fission; wallflowers eliza robertson; something for everyone; lisa moore; suspense; horror; indie","NumberOfPages":"304","OtherText_Accolades_0":"Paul Carlucci’s A Plea for Constant Motion is a visceral, vibrant, take-no-prisoners collection. Its characters keep talking in your head even after you put the stories down, coming back when you least expect it. Bright like nightmares, yet gauzy like half-remembered dreams — a unique touch.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Russell Wangersky, author of The Path of Most Resistance","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Paul Carlucci’s collection thrums with violence. The damaged, deranged, and dangerous are flayed open on the page by vivid, razor-sharp prose. These stories, steeped in darkness, disturb and captivate in equal measure.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Laura Trunkey, author of Double Dutch","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Paul Carlucci has a gift for the dark and the heartbreaking. In this myriad collection of stories, we meet people who have been confronted with all manner of quiet disasters. It’s a testament to the careful brilliance of Carlucci’s prose that this disaster exists hand-in-hand with redemption; these are tales of unlikely triumph, wistfully poignant and played out with a master hand.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Amanda Leduc, author of The Miracles of Ordinary Men","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Whether Paul Carlucci’s characters are dealing with class conflict, prejudice, or incomprehensible cruelty, the precision and dark, vivid humour of his stories deliver new angles on literary and societal conventions, demonstrating that the sidelines are often where the real emotional action is.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Naben Ruthnum, Journey Prize-winning author and National Post columnist","OtherText_Review_0":"The manipulation of tone within and across stories in A Plea for Constant Motion is enhanced by an overall structure that is carefully and deliberately constructed . . . [there is] much to appreciate in this tough and challenging collection.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"It doesn’t make for easy reading, but A Plea for Constant Motion has an air of urgency to it, a sense of relevance which is at once odd for a collection of short stories and disturbing in and of itself. Carlucci . . . writes beautifully of ugliness, immersing the reader in the minds and hearts of characters most of us would like to avoid, or, more critically, would prefer to believe didn’t exist. It’s a perfect collection for a world which confronts us with increasing violence and ugliness every day.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"Completely absorbing (in a guided-tour-through-hell kind of way), the stories sketch poor choices and malfunctioning moral compasses with a festering or atrophied backdrop of corruption, brutality, abuse and death. . . a rewarding collection.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_3":"A powerful collection of stories that draw you into their reality.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Ottawa Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, collection of stories.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-01-21","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, collection of stories.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
A Plea for Constant Motion
Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, collection of stories.
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{"id":6815468486715,"title":"Act Normal","handle":"act-normal","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new collection of short fiction from the Governor General’s Literary Award-winning author and Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Greg Hollingshead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAct Normal\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of sharp, new comic stories about sex, art, and the daily risk of having accidents. Highly original, occasionally dark, but always endearing, these stories are filled with characters who are forced to confront strange behaviour in both themselves and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn “The Amazing Insult,” a blow to the head in a boating accident increases a woman’s intelligence and alters her sexual orientation. A man flees a rural meditation camp in for a highway bar in “The Retreat,” where he does his best to get to know a Haitian stripper. A depressed carpenter has to take a break from building his client’s fence in “Unbounded.” In “Night Dreams of the Wise,” a man sleeping with the wife of the British Defense Secretary learns, after a particularly wild night, to stop doing foolish things. A cleric is haunted by the revenant of a member of his diocese in “Miss Buffet.” Nominated for a National Magazine Award, “The Drug-Friendly House,” is the story of a man who attempts to befriend a woman living in a house that the neighbourhood association has labelled “drug friendly.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntelligent, insightful, humorous, and occasionally bizarre, Act Normal is a masterful return by Hollingshead to the short story form. 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A cleric is haunted by the revenant of a member of his diocese in “Miss Buffet.” Nominated for a National Magazine Award, “The Drug-Friendly House,” is the story of a man who attempts to befriend a woman living in a house that the neighbourhood association has labelled “drug friendly.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntelligent, insightful, humorous, and occasionally bizarre, Act Normal is a masterful return by Hollingshead to the short story form. Set in the treacherous terrain of the everyday, this collection is about the quest to find love and truth in a broken world.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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He has great range, but even more than that he has access to great feeling, which is evident throughout this surprising and exciting new collection of stories.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings ","OtherText_Review_1":"Every sentence in Act Normal is a surprise. In fact, the stories are the sentences, each one veering into the next shock, until you’re far from the expected territory. Greg Hollingshead gives us what all great short story writers do: the pleasure of breaking with pattern for the wild and strange. 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There is no writer like him in Canada.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Lynn Coady, author of Hellgoing, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize","OtherText_Review_4":"The master is back! And wow, what a book: nothing normal here — twelve stunning new stories by the great Greg Hollingshead that will knock you upside the heart and break your head — flush with dizzyingly brilliant insights into the contemporary dilemma, every line is cast in existential magic. Here's a fully-dilated peek into the secret lives of men and women on the brink.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Lee Henderson, author of The Man Game","OtherText_Review_5":"brilliant...fiendishly good","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Emily Donaldson","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_6":"Hollingshead’s stories are admirable in their refusal to offer their reader a conventional experience . . .","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Steven W. 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Cole","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"NOW Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In his first collection in twenty years, Greg Hollingshead returns with comic new stories about sex, art, and the daily risk of having accidents.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2015-08-21","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"In his first collection in twenty years, Greg Hollingshead returns with comic new stories about sex, art, and the daily risk of having accidents.","Subtitle":"Stories","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Act Normal
In his first collection in twenty years, Greg Hollingshead returns with comic new stories about sex, art, and the daily risk of having accidents.
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{"id":6816116146235,"title":"All the Rage","handle":"all-the-rage","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dozen stories: a dozen ways of looking at love, or the lack of love. Over five previous collections, A. L. Kennedy has shown herself to be a master of the short form, with a perfect way with sentences and a voice so distinct as to be instantly recognizable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, as before, lies the battlefield of the heart, where characters who have suffered disaffection, alienation, or emotional damage somehow emerge — haltingly, awkwardly — into the astonishment of intimacy. And here, too, are the ones who will not shake off the hurt and the loss, who will not come through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe extraordinary title story takes place on a railway platform, with a couple waiting for a train that never comes, and opens out into the husband's shocking admission of years of deceit, and a devastating portrait of a failed marriage, a failed man. 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All the Rage
A. L. Kennedy shows herself to be a master of the short form over a dozen stories: a dozen ways of looking at love, or the lack of love.
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I found myself torn between devouring the book in a single sitting and savouring slowly to prolong the magic. True to its name, these stories so beautifully capture the prismatic ways humans illuminate, whether through life-changing kindnesses like seeing those who feel invisible or the harsh light of having one’s flaws suddenly come into focus. 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All the Shining People
Beautifully written, these stories depict a search for human connection and an attempt to fit in far from home.
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The ancient and peculiar mystery of intimacy — how we fit (or fail to fit) into the lives that surround us — winds its murky way through the whole collection, but each story burns with the excitement of a brand new case, completely original, and saturated with sharp detail. This is the work of a debut writer already at the top of her game. Please, Ms. Crocker, we want some more!","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXTRAORDINARY NEW TALENT\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eEva Crocker, daughter of Man Booker Prize—longlisted author Lisa Moore, is an explosive new voice on the literary scene and has received blurbs from Heather O’Neill and Zoe Whittall, among others. 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I was making toast under the broiler,” Walt replied before darting out of the room.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eU.S. OUTREACH\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarrelling Forward\u003c\/em\u003e will be available on NetGalley and Edelweiss. We will also be doing a targeted mailing to indies booksellers, building on the reputation of our short story imprint, Astoria, following the Indies Introduce nomination for \u003cem\u003eDouble Dutch\u003c\/em\u003e by Laura Trunkey.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\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":"[A]n intimate and fascinating read.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"This Magazine","OtherText_Review_1":"Suggesting Alice Munro is both high and lazy praise – an easy way to say well-set short fiction and a pretty future for Crocker in CanLit – but there’s a quality to this Newfoundland author’s work that fans of the Nobel Prize winner will recognize, if they’re willing to displace age, place and decoration accordingly. Where Munro so remarkably captures rural banality, Crocker taps a similarly enthralling mundanity in Quebec’s urban bustle and Eastern Canada’s could-be-anywhere suburban sprawls.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_2":"A fine and enthralling collection that will excite and seduce readers.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarrelling Forward\u003c\/em\u003e, is a short-story collection unique for its diverse points of view … Crocker draws us in immediately … these brief pieces resonate with the reader for a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-03-18","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.","Subtitle":"Stories","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Barrelling Forward
Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland.
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Chez l'arabe
A dazzling debut collection from award-winning journalist and New York Times Magazine contributor Mireille Silcoff.
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Genre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community.
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The writing in this collection boils with meaning, beauty and menace, and signals the liftoff of an exciting new literary talent.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Michael Christie, author of The Beggar's Garden","OtherText_Review_1":"These fresh, edgy, unflinching stories about contemporary life on the urban and rural West Coast will resonate with readers at all stages of life: parents watching their children grow up too quickly, young couples starting families, brothers and sisters at crossroads in life coping with the fraying adulthood brings to childhood bonds.","OtherText_Review_10":"…an exceptional debut","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Zoe Whittall","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_11":"With this impressive debut collection, Théodora Armstrong establishes herself as a fresh and multi-faceted talent, capable of mining everyday human dramas to create evocative and lasting tales about the human condition.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"PRISM International","OtherText_Review_12":"…Armstrong writes beautifully…","OtherText_Review_12_Auth":"Georgie Binks","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Christine Mazur","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"[Armstrong] is a fresh, new voice in Canadian short fiction, but a fresh, new voice that’s already proven her to be a force in the form. [Her] fiction is very human, taut with tension, and replete with well-drawn characters. Certainly a strong debut collection.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Chad Pelley","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Telegraph-Journal","OtherText_Review_3":"Théodora Armstrong['s] first collection of striking, realist stories, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility, is an exceptional debut.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Zoe Whittall","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Armstrong’s tales are indeed satisfying; the book is delicious from start to finish... Her gritty realism and rich, crisp prose have been compared to that of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor. High praise indeed. Clear Skies is the kind of collection that leaves you satisfied, but wanting more.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Michelle Lalonde","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_5":"Théodora Armstrong’s début collection launches House of Anansi Press’s new short-fiction imprint, Astoria, in impressive fashion. This is a writer to watch, and a book not to be missed... These darkly intimate and subtly heart-breaking pieces are pure pleasure to read. Armstrong is an electrifying new voice on the short fiction scene.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Stacey Madden","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_6":"Armstrong’s themes of agency and inevitability are distilled to their essence and given another ironic twist, and her typically spare language is honed to a fine edge.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Steven W. Beattie","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_7":"A worthwhile, well-honed collection that's probing and nuanced... Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility also highlights an author whose regional scope ought to be appreciated well past the borders of British Columbia.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Brett Josef Grubisic","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_8":"The stories in this collection are a rare phenomenon, capable of taking the reader to places so familiar one forgets they’ve never been there. The writing is crisp, taut, and evocative, and each story has a separate pleasure to give. Théodora Armstrong is a terrifically talented young writer, and this is a superb début.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo","OtherText_Review_9":"[Théodora Armstrong’s] stories are direct and non-apologetic, fluid and intelligent, and especially good at delineating a desire to connect and the lack of ability to make that connection.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Mark Anthony Jarman, author of 19 Knives and Ireland’s Eye","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\"Théodora Armstrong's stories are brash and brainy.\" - Mark Anthony Jarman","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2013-02-22","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\"Théodora Armstrong's stories are brash and brainy.\" - Mark Anthony Jarman","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
"Théodora Armstrong's stories are brash and brainy." - Mark Anthony Jarman
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Columbus and the Fat Lady
Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author Matt Cohen’s first collection of satirical and surreal short stories.
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Death Goes Better With Coca-Cola
Originally published in 1967, Death Goes Better with Coca-Cola features stories about hunting — in Florida, in Africa, and in northern Ontario.
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{"id":6812123201595,"title":"Divided Loyalties","handle":"divided-loyalties","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed poet Nilofar Shidmehr’s debut story collection is an unflinching look at the lives of women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories begin in 1978, the year before the Iranian Revolution. In a neighbourhood in Tehran, a group of affluent girls play a Cinderella game with unexpected consequences. In the mid 1980s, women help their husbands and brothers survive war and political upheaval. In the early 1990s in Vancouver, Canada, a single-mother refugee is harassed by the men she meets on a telephone dating platform. And in 2003, a Canadian woman working for an international aid organization is dispatched to her hometown of Bam to assist in the wake of a devastating earthquake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once powerful and profound, \u003ci\u003eDivided Loyalties\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the rich lives of Iranian women and girls in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada; the enduring complexity of the expectations forced upon them; and the resilience of a community experiencing the turmoil of war, revolution, and migration.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-22T15:57:26-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-22T11:27:39-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Short Stories","Adult Starred Reviews","Astoria","By (author) Shidmehr Nilofar","Feminist Reads","pub date: 2019-02-05"],"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":40195655041083,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006020","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Divided Loyalties - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":340,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006020","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40196191649851,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006037","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Divided Loyalties - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006037","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40196193583163,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487006044","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Divided Loyalties - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487006044","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c4e41391-9e1e-4c15-b917-00865b83e24e.jpg?v=1654444883"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c4e41391-9e1e-4c15-b917-00865b83e24e.jpg?v=1654444883","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22170969833531,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c4e41391-9e1e-4c15-b917-00865b83e24e.jpg?v=1654444883"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c4e41391-9e1e-4c15-b917-00865b83e24e.jpg?v=1654444883","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed poet Nilofar Shidmehr’s debut story collection is an unflinching look at the lives of women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories begin in 1978, the year before the Iranian Revolution. In a neighbourhood in Tehran, a group of affluent girls play a Cinderella game with unexpected consequences. In the mid 1980s, women help their husbands and brothers survive war and political upheaval. In the early 1990s in Vancouver, Canada, a single-mother refugee is harassed by the men she meets on a telephone dating platform. And in 2003, a Canadian woman working for an international aid organization is dispatched to her hometown of Bam to assist in the wake of a devastating earthquake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once powerful and profound, \u003ci\u003eDivided Loyalties\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the rich lives of Iranian women and girls in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada; the enduring complexity of the expectations forced upon them; and the resilience of a community experiencing the turmoil of war, revolution, and migration.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A specialist in literature and cinema of modern Iran, she teaches in the Continuing Studies program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where she lives with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Women","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Short Stories (single author)","BISACSubject_0":"FIC044000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC019000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC029000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNILOFAR SHIDMEHR\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, essayist, and scholar, and the author of six books in English and Farsi, including \u003cem\u003eBetween Lives\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eShirin and Salt Man\u003c\/em\u003e, a BC Book Prize finalist. She writes and delivers lectures on women’s rights, migration and diaspora, and social and political issues in Iran. A specialist in literature and cinema of modern Iran, she teaches in the Continuing Studies program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where she lives with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Shidmehr, Nilofar","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed poet Nilofar Shidmehr’s debut story collection is an unflinching look at the lives of women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories begin in 1978, the year before the Iranian Revolution. In a neighbourhood in Tehran, a group of affluent girls play a Cinderella game with unexpected consequences. In the mid 1980s, women help their husbands and brothers survive war and political upheaval. In the early 1990s in Vancouver, Canada, a single-mother refugee is harassed by the men she meets on a telephone dating platform. 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A touching, fascinating read.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Sahar Delijani","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Iran is a complicated country with thousands of years of history. In Divided Loyalties, with a deft hand, Nilofar Shidmehr takes us through the suffering of its people over the last four decades. An important book that sheds light on how a people can survive their darkest years.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Musharraf Ali Farooqi","OtherText_Accolades_2":"These complex and intimate stories of Iranian women are like nothing I’ve ever read before. Nilofar Shidmehr’s perspective is wise, unique, and compelling.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Farzana Doctor","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDivided Loyalties\u003c\/em\u003e weaves rich and complex stories spanning decades of Iran’s contemporary history and provides an intimate glimpse of lives scattered across different worlds. The stories of the characters in these pages speak to the universal experience of love, loss, and longing.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Payam Akhavan","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF IRANIAN REVOLUTION IN FEBRUARY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eTimed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, we expect considerable media attention for this book in February 2019. (The Iranian people overthrew the last Shah of the Persian monarchy on February 11, 1979, and brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power. Iran voted by national referendum to become an Islamic Republic on April 1, 1979.)\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST SHORT FICTION COLLECTION BY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNilofar Shidmehr has been compared to great activist poets Dionne Brand and Pablo Neruda for her direct and unflinching gaze as she writes about social and political issues of race and gender. She has published two works of poetry and verse; this is her first story collection.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEMAND FOR IMMIGRANT STORIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNever before has there been such interest in immigrant and refugee stories, as demonstrated by the success of story collections by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Djamila Ibrahim, Irina Kovalyova, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ayelet Tsabari.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTEREST IN EXPERIENCE OF PERSIAN WOMEN \/ BOOK CLUB POTENTIAL:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn the 2000s, the success of memoirs such as Marjane Satrapi’s \u003cem\u003ePersepolis\u003c\/em\u003e, Azar Nafisi’s \u003cem\u003eReading Lolita in Tehran\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePrisoner of Tehran\u003c\/em\u003e by Marina Nemat kindled significant North American interest in stories of women’s lives in Iran. Fiction by an Iranian-Canadian writer will appeal to book clubs who loved those memoirs.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eI arrive in Tehran two days after my brother called to inform me about my father’s death. “A car hit Papa,” Milaad said, his voice cracking like phone static. “It happened close to his home. He died on the spot. The driver fled the scene — we couldn’t find him. There is also something else, which I’ll tell you when I’ll see you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThankfully, Milaad accompanies Maman to meet me at the airport. Maman and I had a fight on the phone six months ago and we haven’t talked since. That was the night I came back from Paris, the last place I saw my father alive. Our squabble doesn’t matter now. I am here to be with my mother during the forty-day mourning period. I might even stay longer — for six months, a year, or, who knows, the rest of my life — if Maman and I can get along now that the source of our separation is gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor does it matter that my mother wrongly accused me of siding with my father. In truth, Papa and I had a row at the end of our trip and he accused me of the exactly the same thing: of supporting her. This is what our parents did to me and Milaad all our lives. Each wanted us in their camp when they fought with each other. And once they made peace, they would divide their children between them. Milaad was hers and I was his.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy situation was much worse than my brother’s during the times when our parents quarreled. As a girl, I was supposed to side with my mother. This wouldn’t have been difficult, if her true reason for being angry was that my father was a miser. We lived very close to poverty because the only money that came into the home was from our mother’s meager salary. Papa used all of his money to buy property. However, the real reason behind my mother’s anger was to control my father and keep him, like Milaad, under her thumb. I believed my father should have his independence as much as I wanted to have mine. I wanted to have freedom of association — to like, love, and assemble with whomever I chose, including my aunt Raazi, Papa’s younger sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntering the arrivals area and dragging my suitcase behind me, I look around for my mother and see her, along with Milaad, walking toward me. In her black winter coat, slacks, and wimple hijab, she looks slim and miserable. I speed up and we meet halfway. She throws herself into my embrace and wails. “You see, Maana, your mother is a widow now.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople standing nearby look at us with compassion. “Sorry for your loss,” they whisper as they pass. The other passengers laugh with joy as they reunite with their loved ones. Their families, dressed mostly in bright colors, shower them with flowers and kisses. I pass Maman a clean napkin I’ve saved for my own crying and hold her until her sobbing subsides.\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":"A deeply felt portrait of a particular place and its people . . . The stark, protean beauty of Shidmehr’s writing recalls the shape-shifting work of Denis Johnson’s collection Jesus’ Son . . . Shidmehr’s is a necessary, feminist voice that is at once defiant and humbling.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"Showcases an impressive range.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"Divided Loyalties offers an in-depth view into the complex traditions, taboos, and social mores of Iranian society from the 1970s to the present day.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_3":"Divided Loyalties should be required reading.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Refinery29","OtherText_Review_4":"Shidmehr’s sentences are complex and packed with information, at once crystal clear and highly nuanced, metaphoric and ruthlessly specific, held together by powerfully resonant central images that reverberate retroactively and knit together many levels of reference and meaning … These are stories of ordinary lives, starkly rendered and held in tender suspension, often between a ‘home’ which is beloved yet toxic, and an ‘away’ that is lonely and insulting in its oppressiveness. Panoramic yet intimate, they enact a kind of investigative surgery, each one plunging beneath the surface of a situation and penetrating it to the cellular level before re-emerging only a few minutes or hours later to reveal the context surrounding what has come to pass.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"EVENT Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-02-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Divided Loyalties
A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.
