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2015., Adult, House of Anansi Press Call No: Fic Hol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Rating:
(1 Ratings) Summary Note: "Act Normal" 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.
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2012., Biblioasis Call No: QWF Fic Pet Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in the woods and rural areas outside Montreal, New Zealander Alice Peterson's stories sparkle with down-under merriment and Quebecois charm. Her themes are simple--love, family, death--but rendered so precisely that their inner complexities shine clear, and their most improbable beauties emerge. All the Voices Cry is a romantic and whimsical debut from a not-to-be-missed young author.
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c2014., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Gal Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: These marvelously uneasy stories are deeply emotional and written in exuberant, pitch-perfect prose.
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2017., Adult, The University of Alberta Press Call No: IND Fic Dun Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Robert Kroetsch series.Summary Note: Norma Dunning portrays the unvarnished realities of northern life through gritty characters who find themselves in difficult situations. Dunning grew up in a silenced form of Aboriginality, experiencing racism, assimilation, and colonialism; as she began exploring her Inukness, her writing bubbled up to the surface. Her stories challenge southern perceptions of the north and Inuit life through evocative, nuanced voices accented with Inuktitut words and symbolism. These short stories bring Inuit life into the reality of the present.
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c2010., Adult, McArthur Call No: QWF Fic Bis Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the collection of stories, Nadine Bismuth treats us to a series of sharp, witty, but compassionate portraits of modern urban women torn between a desire for male companionship and the trials and tribulations of navigating couplehood in the real world..."--Back cover.
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2015., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: QWF Fic Arc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "With its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips to nowhere, Samuel Archibald?s Arvida, the portrait of a remote mining town in French Canada, reads like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy. A 25,000-copy Bestseller in French, it does for northern Quebec what Faulkner did for the south."--Publisher.
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c2012., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Don Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Goldminer. Counterfeiter. Slave. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The colourful, fascinating characters that roam the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to the Yukon gold rush, antebellum Louisiana to a 1960s Toronto highway. Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.
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2015., Dalkey Archive Press Call No: QWF 843.6 B665a Edition: First ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Atavisms is an original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the present, and beyond. These thirteen stories, though not linked in the traditional sense, abound in common threads. Like family traits passed down through the generations, the attitudes and actions of a rich cast of characters reverberate, quietly but deeply, over generations. Here is a group portrait of the individual lives that together shape a collective history. Atavisms has been shortlisted for the 2014 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.
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2011., Conundrum Press Call No: QWF Fic Pie Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Alisha Piercy's stunning debut collection pivots between the tumult of lust, the freakishness of the extrasensory, and the menace of our interior worlds. Her prose has the fierce exactitude of dying words, and yet it lulls, beguiles, and winks with its sultriness. It can be sly. It can be horrifying. It can be funny. To hypnotic effect, Piercy achieves that rare feat of capturing the collective strangeness of the human experience." --Inside jacket.
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2017., Adult, Anvil Press Call No: IND Fic Bak Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. She never lets go of the witty, the ironic, and perhaps most notably, the awkward. Despite the title, the resolution in these stories isn't always tragic, but it's often uncomfortable, unexpected, or just plain strange. While steadfastly local in her choice of setting, Baker's deep appreciation for nature takes a lot of these stories out of Vancouver and into the wild. Nature is a place of escape and attempted convalescence for characters suffering from urban burnout. Baker takes troubled characters to a moment of realization or self-revelation, but the results aren't always pretty."--From publisher.
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-- Lepers :2022., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Coh Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen's unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning of his career. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohen's imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence.
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-- Barbara Klein-Muskrat, then and now2012., Inanna Publications Call No: 813.54 K64t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2012., Insomniac Press Call No: QWF Fic Szy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Andrew Szymanskiœs debut fiction collection takes on subjects such as idealized love in an illogical world, ruminations on the realities of failed relationships, and the inability to make meaningful connections. In these stories, a man recruits a sexual companion to chase his lost lover across the globe; a recent graduate remembers with bitter nostalgia his formative years; a man and woman contend with their own neuros es and anxieties in trying to pick each other up. Szymanskiœs distinct voice permeates these stories of characters trying vainly to escape the ennui of their lives through the distractions of dreams and vices.
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c2011., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Chr Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Brilliantly sure-footed, strikingly original, tender, and funny, this memorable collection of nine linked stories follows a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters - from bank manager to crackhead to retired Samaritan to mental patient to web designer to car thief - as they drift through each other's lives like ghosts in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. A powerful and affecting debut."--Publisher.
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c2011., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Canada Call No: Fic Gar Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In Better Living through Plastic Explosives, Zsuzsi Gartner delivers a powerful second dose of the lacerating satire that marked her acclaimed debut, All the Anxious Girls on Earth, but with even greater depth and darker humour. Whether she casts her eye on evolution and modern manhood when an upscale cul-de-sac is thrown into chaos after a redneck moves into the neighbourhood, international adoption, war photography, real estate, the movie industry, motivational speakers, or terrorism, Gartner filets the righteous and the ridiculous with dexterity in equal, glorious measure. These stories ruthlessly expose our most secret desires, and allow us to snort with laughter at the grotesque world we'd live in if we all got what we wanted."--Publisher.
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1990., Véhicule Press Call No: Fic Jan Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Birds of a Feather is Catholyn Jansen's dramatic debut as a writer of fiction. A highly original work of startling imaginative power, this collection of linked short stories about working-class women is set in the small town of Tisol, Ontario. Many of the women spend their weekdays at Beadleman's Poultry Processing Plant one of the most vividly-realized workplaces in contemporary fiction and their Saturday evenings at the Tilson Inn. Grittily realistic in its evocation of the lives of working women, Birds of a Feather is also comic in the attention it pays to their unglamorous jobs at Beadleman's. And it is gripping in its account of the fury the women unleash on the town's violent womanizer.
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2017., Now or Never Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Llo Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2011., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: BLK Fic Goo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In sensuous language textured with the cadences of Creole speech, these stories vividly evoke a world where pride, injustice, love, and unexpected changes of fortune leave their mark but cannot extinguish the human spirit. With warm humour, empathy, and an unsentimental and perceptive eye for the foibles of human relationships, Goodison immerses us into the lives of an unforgettable community of people as they face challenges both intensely private and universally recognizable."--Publisher.
