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  • Translingual Creative Writing Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

    Daoism and Decentering Monolingual Workshops

    by Dr Jennifer Quist ...
    Series series Research in Creative Writing
    In a challenge to monolingual, Anglophone dominated creative writing workshops, this book explores why and how students' multilingual backgrounds and lack of fluency with the English language can emerge as assets rather than impediments to artistry and creativity. Grounded in the Chinese tradition of Daoism as an ongoing discourse, this exploration uses rigorous academic readings of the ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Love Letters of the Angels of Death

    by Jennifer Quist ...
    A breathtaking literary debut, Love Letters of the Angels of Death begins as a young couple discover the remains of his mother in her mobile home. The rest of the family fall back, leaving them to reckon with the messy, unexpected death. By the time the burial is over, they understand this will always be their role: to liaise with death on behalf of people they love. They are living angels of ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Path and the Gate

    Mormon Short Fiction

    by Todd Robert Petersen, Eric Freeze, Annette Haws, Mattathias Singh, William Morris, Joe Plicka, Alison Brimley, Tim Wirkus, Jennifer Quist, Heidi Naylor, Theric Jepson, Danny Nelson, Phyllis Barber, Ryan McIlvain, Jack Harrell, David G. Pace, Charity Shumway, Ryan Shoemaker, Michael Fillerup, Larry Menlove, Holly Welker, Ryan Habermeyer, Steven L. Peck ...
    The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi describes the journey to eternal life as going through a gate of ordinances and traveling a “straight and narrow path.” Twenty-three authors took that gospel roadmap passage as a prompt to write “a Mormon story.” They responded with a surprisingly wide range of realistic and fantastic tales. Many are human reactions to unexpected steps on the path: a lifetime of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Sistering

    by Jennifer Quist ...
    The second novel by award-winning novelist Jennifer Quist is a black comedy of birth, death, love, marriage, mothers-in-law—and five sassy sisters. When Suzanne’s role as the perfect daughter-in-law ends in a deadly accident, she panics, makes a monumentally bad decision, and upends her world. The bond with her sisters is the strongest force Suzanne knows, and it may be the one that can keep her ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner

    by Jennifer Quist ...
    Morgan Turner’s grief over her sister’s brutal murder has become a rut, an everyday horror she is caught in along with her estranged parents and chilly older brother. In search of a way out, she delves the depths of a factory abattoir, classic horror cinema, and the Canadian criminal justice system, as it tries her sister’s killer and former lover, who is arguing that he is “Not Criminally ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    by Fran Kimmel ...
    Series Book 32 - Nunatak First Fiction Series
    WINNER of the 2013 Alberta Readers' Choice award!Rebee Shore’s life is fragmented. She’s forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Elizabeth.The Shore Girl follows Rebee from her toddler to her teen years as she grapples with her mother’s fears and addictions, and her own desire for a normal life. Through a series of narrators—family, ... Read more

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  • Tale of a Boon's Wife

    by Fartumo Kusow ...
    Despite her family's threat to disown her, Idil, a young Somali woman, rejects her high Bliss status to marry Sidow, a poor Boon man. Her decision transforms her life, forcing her to face harsh and sometimes even deadly consequences for her defiance of a strict tribal hierarchy. Set in the fifteen-year period before Somalia's 1991 Civil War, Idil's journey is almost too hard to bear at times. Her ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • A Fist Around the Heart

    by Heather Chisvin ...
    The mystery surrounding Anna Grieve and her mentally fragile older sister, Esther, begins in Russia in the 1880s. The persecution of Jews has become so vicious that the girls’ mother decides to send her children to Winnipeg with her wealthy employers. Her intention is to join them, but the sisters never see their parents again. Frightened and cut adrift, each girl reacts differently to her new ... Read more

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  • After the Bloom

    by Leslie Shimotakahara ...
    A daughter’s search for her mother reveals her family’s past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War.Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation and memory problems, which have led her to wander off before. But never has she stayed away so long. Unconvinced ... Read more

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  • After You've Gone

    by Lori Hahnel ...
    After You’ve Gone vibrates with authenticity: two eras, two young women caught up in the giddy thrall of love and music and feckless men. — Lee Kvern, author of The Matter of Sylvie and Seven Ways to Sunday After You’ve Gone is a thoughtful, offbeat story about two guitarists from two different generations. Through the linked lives of Lita and her granddaughter Elsa, Lori Hahnel takes us from the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • A Measure of Happiness

    by Lorrie Thomson ...
    Katherine Lamontagne isn't Celeste Barnes's mother, but ever since Celeste graduated high school and her parents abandoned Hidden Harbor, Maine, she's acted the part. At twenty-two, Celeste worked at Katherine’s bakery, and hoped to buy the business once Katherine took early retirement. But when Katherine reconsidered that decision, Celeste fled to culinary school in New York—only to return two ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • A Short History of Women

    A Novel

    by Kate Walbert ...
    NOMINATED FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEA profoundly moving literary novel about the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, A Short History of Women chronicles five generations of women from the close of the 19th century through the early years of the 21st century.Beginning in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Trevor Townsend, a suffragette who starves herself for the cause, the novel ... Read more

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