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Series: Pistachios in My Pocket Paperback Sareh Farmand 9781988168692 $24.95 POETRY Oct 25, 2022

Poet Sareh Farmand was born in Tehran at the start of the Islamic Revolution. In this brave first collection of poems and prose a narrative arc details her family's escape from Iran, detailing their time as immigrants in limbo, and finally, as Landed Immigrants in Canada. Using family anecdotes, memory, public documents, and images to outline her family's story, Pistachios in my Pocket moves from the personal to the universal by exploring the influences of migration, political strife, and cultural identity on humanity. Here is a new voice to th... + Read More
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Series: The Loyal Daughter Paperback Nancy Lam 9781988168654 $24.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2022

The Loyal Daughter is a novel in stories, told from the perspective of mother, daughter, and granddaughter and spans the 1940s to modern day. A young woman in a village in Communist China finds herself scrapping her way through the crowded streets of Hong Kong. She immigrates to an isolated Northern Ontario city and finally settling in Toronto. When she finds herself stuck in a small apartment above a clothing store, with four kids, her mother, two siblings, and a husband who is never home, the promise of a new beginning fades. Filled with hear... + Read More
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Series: Weeding Paperback Genevieve Lebleu 9781772620481 $18.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 13, 2021

X-Files meets The Young and The Restless On a typical autumn afternoon, Martha hosts a group of middle-aged women at her suburban home. The day takes a sudden turn when Elisabeth, an estranged friend, turns up unexpectedly--and she isn't the only unwanted guest at the tea party. Martha's sister, Maureen, shows up after years of radio silence, along some painful memories and a lot of confusion. It doesn't take long for the guest list to change again when Martha disappears after a simple trip to the backyard for herbs. Martha is the most beloved... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum25 We Were Younger Once Paperback Kiona Callihoo Ligvoet 9781772620757 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 12, 2022

Kiona--or Kiwi, as her family calls her--grew up living with her moshom (grandpa) and a revolving door of relatives on scrip land. Affectionately called "the farm", Kiwi shares a small portion of her home-a spot where she played with her cousins, daydreamed about her future, listened to her families' stories across generations, and learned about the complexities of heartbreak.In We Were Younger Once, artist Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet follows a non-linear series of mini memories of growing up as a dirt kid on the prairies, the wistfulness of leavin... + Read More
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Series: Conundrum25 CONDOLADY Paperback Elisabeth Belliveau 9781772620764 $10.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 13, 2022

Everything changes, even when time stands stillElisabeth Belliveau spent two years in Amiskwaciwâskahikan / Edmonton social distancing in a 680-square foot condo. Fueled by increased espresso consumption, food delivery, and twenty-year-old Cindy Crawford workout videos, Belliveau attends endless online meetings and teaches so many virtual art classes that they all start to blend together. But even in pandemic times, life goes on, and Belliveau soon finds herself navigating much bigger challenges--like pregnancy and tenure.In CONDOLADY, award-wi... + Read More
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Series: The Burden of Memories Paperback Janet Calcaterra 9781988989457 $20.00 FICTION May 14, 2022

A powerful family drama about fractured lives, secrets, addiction and ultimate reinvention. In 1995, sisters Adrienne and Cass unravel the mystery behind their father, Dr. Alexander Muir, a doctor during World War 11's Italian Campaign and later a psychiatrist. As children they barely recall the sudden death of their father, but, through a series of family letters, they learn, despite their mother's best efforts, that their father suffered from PTSD due to war time experiences and died by his own hand. While their mother is ashamed of her late ... + Read More
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Series: Sisu's Winter War Paperback Liisa Kovala 9781988989471 $22.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2022

When memories threaten to disappear, past promises must be confronted.Meri Saari made a promise to her dying mother she would keep the family together, but she was too young to know how a war can pull people apart. As a teenager responsible for her siblings she finds herself following her father to the front lines during the Winter War when he goes missing in action. Forty years later, living in northern Ontario, Meri's past and present collide when she is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. Responsible for her granddaughter, and navigating... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series Why I'm Here Paperback Jill Frayne 9781774390498 $21.95 FICTION May 01, 2022

Fifteen-year-old Gale is desperate to get out of Whitehorse, a fact that is immediately clear to counsellor Helen Cotillard when Gale walks into her office with her reluctant stepmother. It's 1995, and one counselling agency for kids and families serves all of the Yukon. Gale has been having anxiety attacks, the last one so severe it landed her in the hospital.Helen soon begins to realize that Gale's distress at being separated from her little sister Buddie too closely parallels a calamity from her own past. This tragic similarity leaves Helen ... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series Cine Star Salon, The Paperback Leah Ranada 9781774390320 $21.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2021

Philippine-born Vancouverite Sophia is most grateful for two things: her modest hair salon and Adrian, her mild-mannered fiancé. She is eager to get married, move away from her highly educated but career-frustrated parents, who believe that their daughter can be so much more than a beautician.Then Sophia's estranged friend reaches out from Manila, desperate for help. After a dubious accident, her fiery Auntie Rosy is on the verge of losing the Cine Star Salon--the place where Sophia first felt the call to become a hairstylist and salon owner. C... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry rump + flank Paperback Carol Steski 9781774390283 $19.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2021

Carol Harvey Steski's tenacious and unapologetic debut, rump + flank, explores the body in nature's many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical. The result is a fantastical poetic work that sheds light on what bodies--especially female ones--endure, probing the full range of experiences from pleasure and hope to deep loss and trauma.These poems are piercingly humorous, sexy, and peppered with startling absurdities, but are grounded by an undercurrent of nostalgia (and a soupçon of feminist rage): mercury reproduces like funh... + Read More
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Series: Bodies in Trouble Paperback Diane Carley 9781989274736 $22.00 FICTION May 27, 2022

Forced intimacies, dead dogs, errant balloons, a troubled chef's encounter with ethereal Swedish lesbians, all form this remarkable short story collection, Bodies in Trouble, depicting characters coping with faltering relationships, simmering violence, and light-drenched visions. Stories of damaged daughters and abandoned sons, of near-crashes, lost loves, and late nights steeped in regret. Lurking within these tales is the glimmer of hope from a brave choice, a bold action, the recalibration of a dangerous path.
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Series: Danceland Diary Paperback dee Hobsbawn-Smith 9781989274828 $22.00 FICTION Oct 18, 2022

Luka Dekker and her sister Connie are the inheritors of a secretive and disturbing family history going back three generations to the disappearance of their great-grandfather. Their troubledmother, Lark, also mysteriously disappeared; and their beloved grandmother, who raised thetwo girls, had a life haunted by a traumatic event that is only revealed after her death. The story unfolds against a backdrop of the drug-fueled Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and the horrific pig farm murders, the seductive beauty of rural Saskatchewan, and the glitte... + Read More
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Series: Sangeet and the Missing Beat Paperback Kiranjot Kaur 9781989996058 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 10 Mar 15, 2022

Sangeet loves music, and she's good at composing it, too. Her favourite instrument is the tabla. One day, Sangeet hears all kinds of noises everywhere and together, they have the most incredible beat. But when she tries to play it on her tabla--something is missing! Will Sangeet be able to find her Missing Beat? Teacher resources available on publisher website: rebelmountainpress.com/sangeet-and-the-missing-beat-teacher-resources
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Series: Sweetest Dance On Earth, The New and Selected Paperback Di Brandt 9780888017352 $19.00 POETRY Sep 30, 2022

Since her debut in 1987 with questions I asked my mother, Di Brandt has remained curious, still asking questions and pushing poetic bounds. Now for the first time, the best work of this Griffin Award winning poet has been gathered together in one place. Distilled into one collection is Di Brandt's insatiable desire to understand, question and show the world in a new light. From her feminist work to her eco poetics, readers will get a chance to see the breathtaking career of one of Canada's most influential poets.
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Series: Black Umbrella Paperback Katherine Lawrence 9780888017475 $18.00 POETRY May 15, 2022

In this poetic memoir, Katherine Lawrence rides the electric charge of childhood innocence to its moment of impact with adult manipulation and betrayal. Black Umbrella offers a bold portrait of family breakdown through the lens of a child, a teenager, and later as an adult who approaches love with wariness and longing. These poems speak of long-held secrets, the bonds of love, strained loyalties, loss, and the courage required to embrace happiness through the thickening underbrush of adulthood. A tough and tender collection that contributes to... + Read More
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Series: Flyway Paperback Sarah Ens 9780888017567 $18.00 POETRY May 05, 2022

This Meditation on the impact of human and ecological trauma explores the cost of survival for three generations of women living between empires. Writing from within the disappearing tallgrass prairie, Sarah Ens follows connections between the Russian Mennonite diaspora and the disrupted migratory patterns of grassland birds. Drawing on family history, eco-poetics, and the rich tradition of the Canadian long poem, Flyway migrates along pathways of geography and the heart to grapple with complexities of home.
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Series: Book of Wings Paperback Tawhida Tanya Evanson 9781550655643 $19.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2021

Winner - Blue Metropolis/Conseil des arts de Montreal New Contribution Literary Prize 2023Longlist - Canada Reads 2022In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one's own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist traces a global journey from Vancouver to the United States, Caribbean, Paris, and Morocco as a relationship with her lover and travel partner disintegrates and she finds herself on a path toward pe... + Read More
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Series: Open Your Heart Paperback Alexie Morin 9781550655780 $19.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2021

A much-celebrated auto-fictional feminist memoir, finally available in English.In this frank and unforgettable book, celebrated Québécois writer Alexie Morin becomes the subject of her own story as she places a childhood friendship under a microscope. An autobiographical novel set in a small industrial town in Quebec during the 1990s, Open Your Heart recounts the story of a difficult friendship between two girls brought together by illness and operations suffered at a young age. One girl suffers from severe strabismus, while the other was born ... + Read More
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Series: Prophetess Paperback Baharan Baniahmadi 9781550655957 $19.95 FICTION May 13, 2022

An unflinching allegorical novel that explores trauma, women's rights, and religious tradition.In the slums of Tehran, seven-year-old Sara witnesses the horrific murder of her sister Setayesh, an event leaves her in shock and unable to speak. As the neighbourhood frantically searches for the missing girl, Sara is locked inside herself, unable to tell her parents or police all she knows. Over time, the mute Sara develops a strange allergic reaction, in which hair covers her face every time a man approaches her. One day in school, when an imam ge... + Read More
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Series: Stolen Motherhood Surrogacy and Made-to-Order Chldren Paperback Maria De Koninck 9781771862240 $24.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Sep 15, 2020
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Series: Almost Visible 1st edition Paperback Michelle Sinclair 9781771862943 $24.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2022

Tess has just moved to Montreal from Nova Scotia, and seeks to lose herself by involving herself in the lives of others. She befriends an older man while delivering meals to the elderly. Her interest in his past veers into obsession after furtively going through his photos and letters and "borrowing" his journal. Though fact and fiction are blurred, they reveal a man shaken by political polarization and repression in his Latin-American homeland. Tess learns about a young, passionate man in the 1970s forced to reconcile his love for a milita... + Read More
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Series: Good Mom on Paper Writers on Creativity and Motherhood Paperback Stacey May Fowles 9781771667470 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 03, 2022

The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt the creative process? How does it enhance it? Good Mom on Paper is a collection of twenty essays that goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. These texts disclose the often-invisible challenges of a literary life with little ones: the manuscript written with a baby sleepin... + Read More
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Series: Hunger Heart Paperback Karen Fastrup 9781771667722 $25.00 FICTION Nov 22, 2022

A few days ago, Karen was a writer and translator immersed in Copenhagen’s creative scene, madly in love with her partner. Now she’s a patient in a psychiatric facility. Hunger Heart is a sensual, profound work of autofiction about love, relationships, mental illness, and recovery by one of Denmark’s most celebrated literary writers. Fastrup immerses us in the alienations of her breakdown and hospitalization: what it’s like to apologize for threatening your loved one with a knife; how an eating disorder can begin with the discomfort of family a... + Read More
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Series: Horrible Dance Paperback Avery Lake 9781771315753 $21.95 POETRY Apr 30, 2022

2022 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist * 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry Finalist A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory. By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake's poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain with understated, expansive wisdom. Lake persistently returns us to the search for love that lies at the... + Read More
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Series: Wet Dream Paperback Erin Robinsong 9781771315876 $22.95 POETRY Sep 23, 2022

Wet Dream is an expansive book of ecological thinking for living on a wet planet on fire. Erotic and political, vibrating with pleasures, medicines, and unrest, these poems metabolize toxic logics and traverse enmeshed ecologies through the wetness that connects. A pulse of agency to the heart. "Erin Robinsong's Wet Dream is an erotic epistemology of humors, the vital fluids linking bodies to cosmos. What does liquidity know?" — Lisa Robertson "Wet Dream is brain lube for an insurgent language — creaturely poems that remake your body and relat... + Read More
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Series: MONUMENT Paperback Manahil Bandukwala 9781771315845 $22.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2022

MONUMENT is a conversation with Mughal Empress Mumtaz Mahal, which moves her legacy beyond the Taj Mahal. MONUMENT upturns notions of love, monumentalisation, and empire by exploring buried facets of Mumtaz Mahal's story. The collection layers linear time and geographical space to chart the continuing presence of historical legacies. It considers what alternate futures could have been possible. Who are we when we continue to make the same mistakes? Beyond distance, time, and boundaries, what do we still carry? "A profound evocation of unbelongi... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series A Good Name Paperback Yejide Kilanko 9781771836012 $25.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2021

Twelve years in America and Eziafa Okereke has nothing to show for it. Desperate to re-write his story, Eziafa returns to Nigeria to find a woman he can mold to his taste. Eighteen-year-old Zina has big dreams. An arranged marriage to a much older man isn't one of them. Trapped by family expectations, Zina marries Eziafa, moves to Houston, and trains as a nurse. Buffeted by a series of disillusions, the couple stagger through a turbulent marriage until Zina decides to change the rules of engagement.
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Series: First Poets Series A History of Touch Paperback Erin Vance 9781771837217 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2022

Bearing witness to women in history. A History of Touching is a poetry collection about women in folklore and history who were ill, disabled, or otherwise labelled ‘hysteric.’ The work bears witness to the lives of women with varying experiences, such as a woman whose epilepsy was mistaken for demonic possession, Sarah Winchester’s grief, Mary Roff and her love of leeches, and the “witch”, Biddy Early. There is a poem about Bridget Cleary, who upon displaying her independence was burned to death by her husband, believing her to be a changeling.... + Read More
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Series: Essential Writers Series Bronwen Wallace Essays on Her Works Paperback Wanda Campbell 9781771837422 $20.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 01, 2022

Writers and critics have long acknowledged Bronwen Wallace’s unique contribution to Canadian literature and yet her work has received little academic recognition. This collection attempts to remedy this with voices old and new. A critical introduction, biography, and interview are followed by previously published essays by Susan Rudy, Brenda Vellino, and Aritha Van Herk and new contributions from Mary di Michele, Lorraine York, Susan Glickman, Wanda Campbell, and Andrea Beverley. Rounding out the collection are poems by Patrick Lane, Phil Hall... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Daria Paperback Irene Marques 9781771338417 $22.95 FICTION Jun 24, 2021

When a young woman is subjected to a violent attack, the impact of colonialism, patriarchy, and who we choose to love are thrown into sharp relief. Daria is an immigrant woman living in Toronto, and as she begins to tell her story, the reader is pulled into different worlds, travelling to various timeframes and locations in an unending awe-inspiring Matryoshka play, where one story leads to another and another and another. The novel explores the stories of multiple characters?the Indo-Portuguese-Canadian sexual predator; the idealist and resili... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Under a Kabul Sky Short Fiction by Afghan Women Paperback Elaine Kennedy 9781771339155 $22.95 FICTION Jan 21, 2022

Finalist, International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction.These twelve short stories dive deep into imaginary worlds where everyday life is marked and marred by war. They speak of wounded love, captured women, confinement, talismans, borders, wolves. They give expression to the voices of Afghan women who would like to change the fate of people like Nâzboo, Khorshid, Hamid and so many others.Originally published by Éditions Le Soupirail in 2019, this collection was the first volume of short stories by Afghan women to appear in France. This ed... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series A Knife in the Sky Paperback Marie-Célie Agnant 9781771339186 $22.95 FICTION Jun 27, 2022

In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student?s desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship. As the novel opens, Mika is dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during Haiti?s first Duvalier regime. Nearly thirty years later, her granddaughter Junon witnesses the repressive dynasty?s unravelling. Brutal, terrifying, and hopeful, A Knife in the Sky is an homage to those who have survived tyranny.Originally published by les éditions du remue-ménage in 2015 as Femmes au temps des carnassiers, t... + Read More
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Series: No Crystal Stair Paperback Mairuth Sarsfield 9781773900919 $21.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2021

First published in 1993, No Crystal Stair is an absorbing story of urban struggle in the 1940s. Raising her three daughters alone, Marion discovers she can only find gainful employment if she passes as white. Set in the Montreal working class neighbourhood of Little Burgundy against the backdrop of an exciting cosmopolitan jazz scene?home of Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones, and Rockhead's Paradise?and the tense years of World War II, No Crystal Stair is both a tender story of friendship and community as well as an indictment of Canada's "soft" rac... + Read More
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Series: Lea Paperback Ariela Freedman 9781773901022 $24.95 FICTION Feb 12, 2022

How do you change the world? Meet Léa, polyglot, labour activist, farbrente feminist. Born to a large Jewish family and raised in a French Catholic town, Léa moves fluidly between languages and cultures. Her search for meaning and her instinct for justice place her at the centre of the great changes of the 20th century. From street fights in Berlin to protests in Montreal, she defies the expectations and limitations of women?s lives, wins historic victories for the union movement, and grapples with her own convictions. Based on the life of fam... + Read More
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Series: Yellow Watch Journey of a Portuguese Woman Paperback Carmelinda Scian 9781774150825 $22.95 FICTION Sep 07, 2022

Nominated, Journey Prize, 2018: "Yellow Watch" Long-listed, The Fiddlehead's Fiction Contest, 2017: "Yellow Watch" Runner-up, UofT Magazine Writing Contest, 2015: "A Pilgrimage to Atalaia" First Prize Winner, Toronto Star Short Story Contest, 2015: "A Dragonfly Dashed by My Face" First Prize Winner, The Malahat Review Open Season Short-Fiction Writing Contest, 2013: "The Butterfly First" This gripping collection takes us into the lives of Portuguese immigrants as they arrive in Toronto. Beginning in tiny Amendoeiro across the Tagus from Lisbon... + Read More
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Series: Nila the Bleeding Garden Paperback Laila Re 9781774150856 $22.95 FICTION Nov 04, 2022

Nila the Bleeding Garden describes the turbulent journey of an Afghan girl called Nila who suddenly has to escape her homeland with her family during the long Afghan war. As a child refugee, she experiences the trauma of displacement, first to Pakistan and then to Canada, during which her family struggles to survive and slowly falls apart. This novel describes the loss and dysfunction caused by war and displacement, suffered by so many in our times. No reader will fail to be moved by this utterly gripping tale.
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Series: Isolated Incident Paperback Mariam Pirbhai 9781774150887 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2022

When a rock, a threatening letter, and a burning Quran are thrown into a mosque on the outskirts of Toronto, religious leaders and the police shrug it off as an isolated incident. But many see it as a hate crime. Among them is Kashif Siddiqui, the son of Pakistani immigrants. Kashif joins a group of volunteers at an Islamic Cultural Centre on a security watch during the festive Eid night, a potential target of another attack. When an attack materializes, Eid night becomes a test of friendship, family, and faith for the community; it also ends i... + Read More
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Series: Grappling Hook Paperback Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang 9781990293030 $19.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2022

Taking its title from Tomas Tranströmer, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang?s Grappling Hook sifts the debris of the twenty-first century for insights into identity, desire, and the everyday struggles inherent to motherhood. In doing so, she presents vivid portraits of the joys and perils of marriage, the evolving fight for social justice in a world divided by inequity, and the uncertain future thats?s left for children of the digital age. Grappling Hook is an impressive display of Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang?s considerable poetic gifts, and a love letter to those w... + Read More
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Series: The Most Cunning Heart Paperback Catherine Graham 9781990293122 $18.95 FICTION May 01, 2022

In the early 1990?s, Caitlin Maharg, grieving the loss of her parents, leaves everything she knows in Canada for Northern Ireland to pursue her love of poetry while living in a cottage by the Irish Sea. Feeling like a child again in a distant land still affected by the Troubles, she is haunted by the secrets her parents? deaths unearthed. In her longing for emotional closeness, she befriends Andy Evans, a well-known poet with a roguish charm. Their attraction soon leads to a love affair. Flouting the paisley headscarf of respectability, she plu... + Read More
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Series: A Friend Sails in on a Poem Essays on Friendship, Freedom and Poetic Form Paperback Molly Peacock 9781990293306 $19.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 01, 2022

Palimpsest Press and Molly Peacock are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of A FRIEND SAILS IN ON A POEM, available for presale in Canada and the United States. For the last forty-six years, the distinguished poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have read and discussed nearly every poem they?ve written?an unparalleled friendship in poetry. Here Peacock traces the development of their ideas about poetry across their lifelong back-and-forth, quoting their poems, investigating their childhoods, personalities, writing habits, reading ... + Read More
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Series: Lady Sunrise Paperback Marjorie Chan 9780369103543 $18.95 DRAMA Jun 28, 2022

From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city’s Asian Canadian community. Lady Sunrise introduces us to six women who are risking everything, all motivated by the need for more money and the freedom it could buy, whether it’s the allure of expensive items and real estate to substitute what’s been lost or the safety of not being in abusive debt to anyone else just to survive. This heartbreaking examination of... + Read More
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Series: Women of the Fur Trade Paperback Frances Koncan 9780369103505 $18.95 DRAMA May 31, 2022

In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel. Marie-Angelique, a Metis Taurus, is determined to woo Louis (a Metis Libra)—who will be arriving soon—by sending him boldly flirtatious letters. Eugenia, an Ojibwe Sagittarius, brings news of rebellion back to the fort after trading, but isn’t impressed by Louis’s true mediocre nat... + Read More
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Series: Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias Paperback Beatriz Pizano 9780369103796 $19.95 DRAMA Dec 13, 2022

The one thing everyone knows is that we’re all going to die. Which means our loved ones are going to die. So how can we prepare for, experience, and honour their deaths? And does that look different if we have to make the decision to end their lives for them if they’re suffering? Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias is one woman’s story that offers a space for communal grieving through a celebration of life. Traced by the historic world events that coincide with her memories of independence and immigration, Beatriz reflects on how she spent over... + Read More