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Short stories, Canadian

  • Above discovery
    Author:
    Falkner, Jennifer
    Summary:

    “It is the part that is missing that I am drawn to, that I try to pin down. My gaze is always divided by what is here and what is no longer here. That, for me, is where the deepest pleasure lies, where the sweet overcomes the bitter." A...
  • A way to be happy
    Author:
    Adderson, Caroline
    Summary:

    Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize. Short stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. On New Year's Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A...
  • A three-tiered pastel dream : short stories
    Author:
    Trites, Lesley
    Summary:

    A career-focused woman finds her life taken off course by an unexpected pregnancy and its challenging aftermath; a troubled doctor abandons her family on her daughter’s birthday, the three-tiered pastel layer cake in the passenger seat...
  • A song for Nettie Johnson
    Author:
    Sawai, Gloria
    Summary:

    In her stunning, Governor-General's-Award-winning debut collection of short stories, Gloria Sawai examines the heartbreaking lives of people on the margins.

    In her stunning debut collection of short stories, Gloria Sawai examines...
  • A Plea for Constant Motion
    Author:
    Carlucci, Paul
    Summary:

    Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, new work of fiction by award-winning author Paul Carlucci.Penetrating and visceral, yet always offset by small moments of...
  • A l'intention des ombres
    Author:
    Frédérick Durand
    Summary:

    Dans ce recueil de nouvelles noires et insolites, vous rencontrerez des personnages en proie aux ombres. Fantasmées, réelles, provoquées, imprévues, amicales ou inquiétantes, elles n'en sont pas moins cachées quelques part,...
  • A dream of a woman : stories
    Author:
    Plett, Casey
    Summary:

    Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, and in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days. In "Hazel and Christopher," two...
  • A clap for cadence
    Author:
    Dunlop, R.W.
    Summary:

    Whether it’s a middle-aged man travelling to Mexico in search of a troubled sister or a thirty-something restaurant manager trying desperately to hold her life together, this stunning debut collection of interconnected stories...
  • A boy's life of Napoleon
    Author:
    Nowlan, Alden
    Summary:

    Alden Nowlan's "A Boy's Life of Napoleon" is a brilliant piece of short fiction adapted from Nowlan's first novel, The Wanton Troopers, written in 1960 but published posthumously in 1988. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions...
  • A bird on every tree : stories
    Author:
    Bruneau, Carol
    Summary:

    Carol Bruneau, author of six acclaimed works of fiction (most recently, These Good Hands), brings her finely honed voice to 12 new stories about shifting concepts of Nova Scotian identity. In "The Race," a war bride's remarkable life...
  • 19 Knives
    Author:
    Jarman, Mark
    Summary:

    With characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive to the wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. But Jarman doesn't just write about...
  • 13 lives : stories of others
    Author:
    Pawlowski, Michael
    Summary:

    With stories that chronicle the abused, the homeless, the suicidal, those seeking a world away from the reserve, and those returning to the indigenous community to improve themselves, 13 Lives is a fact-based account of events affecting...

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