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WINNER OF THE 2018 QUEBEC WRITERS' FEDERATION CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
FIRST BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD FINALIST FOR THE
2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL
BEST BOOK OF 2018 A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR Fantastical,
magnetic, and harsh--these are the women in Paige Cooper's debut
short story collection Zolitude. They are women who built time
machines when they were nine, who buy plane tickets for lovers who
won't arrive. They are sisters writhing with dreams, blase about
sex but beggared by love--while the police horses have talons and
vengeance is wrought by eagles the size of airplanes. Broken-down
motorbikes and housebroken tyrannosaurs, cheap cigarettes and mail
bombs--Cooper finds the beautiful and the disturbing in both the
surreal and the everyday. Troubling, carnal, and haunting, these
stories are otherworldly travelogues through banal, eco-fabulist
dystopias. Zolitude is a gorgeous, sad, and sexy work of slipstream
and an atlas of fantastic isolation. The monstrous is human here,
and tender.
"The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it
... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will
not consider going back." "Like meeting a stranger, much of the
pleasure of a story is its unknown power," writes Best Canadian
Stories 2020 guest editor Paige Cooper. "The right story, at the
right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you
so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back."
From Festival du Voyageur to the shores of Lake Erie, Tbilisi to
Toronto, the Amisk River to a hotel-turned-hospital in the midst of
a mysterious pandemic, this wide-ranging anthology brings together
the real and the speculative, small towns and big cities, grief and
humour, introducing readers to stories that startle us into new
understanding-of ourselves and each other, the worlds we inhabit
and the ones they help us to imagine. Featuring work by: Maxime
Raymond Bock * Lynn Coady * Kristyn Dunnion * Omar El Akkad *
Camilla Grudova * Conor Kerr * Alex Leslie * Thea Lim * Madeleine
Maillet * Cassidy McFadzean * Michael Melgaard * Jeff Noh * Casey
Plett * Eden Robinson * Naben Ruthnum * Pablo Strauss * Souvankham
Thammavongsa
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