In Prerequisites for Sleep, her first published short story collection, Jennifer L. Stone has created a fictional world rich with dilemmas. From the young unwed mother paying the price for both her own mistakes as well as her family...
Short stories, Canadian
- Author:Stone, Jennifer L.Summary:
- Author:See, AnikSummary:
"A high school math teacher drifts from a moored boat to a downtown trance club, while negotiating her problematic relationship with an alcoholic older brother. A displaced Toronto book designer deliberates dreams, daydreams and...
- Author:Ashton, JennSummary:
"This uplifting collection explores the world through the eyes of protagonists whose perspectives are informed by their unique circumstances. Some are struggling with physical challenges while others seek to overcome psychological...
- Author:Hood, AndrewSummary:
Andrew Hood's debut collection heralds a young talent with an irresistible style and merciless eye. These unapologetic stories deal with an assortment of foolish self-destructive small town anti-heroes. They are unlikely odes and...
- Author:Pirbhai, MariamSummary:
A Haitian woman survives the ravages of an earthquake only to find her sister, an émigré in Montreal, the subject of a grisly crime. A chambermaid in a Mexican tourist resort frequented by Canadian tourists wonders why all the men in...
- Author:Moore, LisaSummary:
Lisa Moore's Open makes you believe three things unequivocally: that St. John's is the centre of the universe, that these stories are about absolutely everything, that the only certainty in life comes from the accumulation of moments...
- Author:Dickinson, Mary LouSummary:
One Day It Happens is an eclectic collection of short stories by Mary Lou Dickinson, which deal in myriad forms with communication or lack thereof in the lives of the characters. One of the universal factors in human existence...
- Author:Carney, PatSummary:
A collection of stories chronicling the characters and dramas that capture life in small coastal communities. In this story collection, Pat Carney follows the rhythms of day-to-day life in coastal BC. Featuring a revolving cast of...
- Author:Zettell, SusanSummary:
The stories in Night Watch, a new collection from Susan Zettell, delve deep into dark waters. Zettell looks unflinchingly at life's bountiful sorrows: the loss felt by abandoned children, the sudden intrusion of sickness or death,...
- Author:Fagan, CarySummary:
Cary Fagan began his career writing short stories before moving on to novels as well as numerous books for children. Yet he has never given up his love for the story form. Here are ten new stories whose characters are funny, serious,...
- Author:Nawaz, SaleemaSummary:
"A prostitute takes shelter with a group of young anarchists. A sister goes missing, mailing a trail of encoded postcards from destinations across the globe. The daughters of a Montreal bagel-shop owner navigate the tricky terrain...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
In these ten dazzling interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage,...
- Author:Eaton, ChrisSummary:
“Beautifully written…” – Jonathan Lethem
“One of the country’s best new writers.” – Eye Weekly
Chris Eaton’s fictions read like intellectual fisticuffs: bruising but with more than a touch of moustache wax....
- Author:Shields, Carol, Fournier Lévêque, ÉliseSummary:
Le Carnaval du quotidien, version française de Dressing up for the Carnival, est le troisième et dernier recueil de nouvelles de Carol Shields. Les nouvelles de Shields dévoilent le côté ludique et l’imagination féconde de cette grande...
- Author:Saidullah, Ahmad, Geoffroy-Skuce, Annick, Charron, Marc, Lavoie, CarolineSummary:
Un prétendu éditeur découvre un mystérieux coffre rempli de manuscrits. C’est là le prétexte pour retracer les pas de personnages associés à la famille Ashfaq, issue de la bourgeoisie musulmane d’une ville indienne dévastée par les...
- Author:Jarman, Mark AnthonySummary:
Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. One of Canada's literary treasures, Mark Anthony Jarman returns with a book of moving and often...
- Author:Jarman, Mark AnthonySummary:
The extraordinary "Knife Party" is from a new collection of stories by Mark Anthony Jarman titled Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, published in the spring of 2015.Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it...
- Author:Bird-Wilson, LisaSummary:
A powerful short story collection from Cree-Métis author Lisa Bird-Wilson.
A nitanis (daughter) invents the mother she never knew. A fourteen-year-old girl struggles to come to terms with her feelings of abandonment. A young man...
- Author:Hanas, Jim, Eaton, Chris, Caple, NataleeSummary:
Recently launched with ECW Press, Joyland eBooks presents new collections from the best voices in short fiction. For the special price of 19.95 you can start reading all three of our titles right now on any device.
The ...
- Author:Baggio, AllisonSummary:
An unflinching look at the human body and the ways it defines, fails, and frees us
Building on themes introduced in her novel Girl in Shades, Allison Baggio explores the connection between the physical and...