1.
Series:
Coconut Dreams
Paperback
Derek Mascarenhas
9781771664813
$20.00
FICTION
Apr 15, 2019
Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950's, the collection shifts to the unique perspectives of two adolescents, Aiden and Ally Pinto. Both first generation Canadians, these siblings tackle their adventures in a predominantly white suburb with innocence, intelligence and a timid foot in two distinct cultures.Derek Mascarenhas takes a fresh look at the world of the new immigrant and the South Asian experience in Canada. In these stories...
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Series:
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being
Paperback
Amy Fung
9781771665056
$20.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 07, 2019
In that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn?t think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspectives, but exclude their physical bodies from entering and experiencing. In that moment, I felt like a real Canadian. Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of creative nonfiction essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada's mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity thr...
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3.
Series:
Hope Matters
Paperback
Columpa Bobb
9781771664974
$18.00
POETRY
Apr 24, 2019
Hope Matters, written by multiple award-winner Lee Maracle, in collaboration with her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, focuses on the journey of Indigenous people from colonial beginnings to reconciliation.Maracle states that the book, "is also about the journey of myself and my two daughters." During their youth, Bobb and Carter wrote poetry with their mother, and eventually they all decided that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream. Written collaboratively by all three women, the poems in Hop...
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4.
Series: Mama's Boy trilogy
Mama's Boy Behind Bars
Paperback
David Goudreault
9781771664851
$20.00
FICTION
Jun 18, 2019
Now I've killed another person. I'm a serial killer. Sure, two people is hardly serial, but it's a good start. I'm still young. Who knows where opportunities might lead me? Opportunity makes the thief, or the murderer, or even the pastry chef. It's well documented.Mama's Boy Behind Bars is the second book in David Goudreault's wildly successful and darkly funny Mama's Boy trilogy. Once again written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy Behind Bars, picks up where the first book in the series left off.Mama's Boy finds himse...
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5.
Series:
Worst Case, We Get Married
Paperback
Sophie Bienvenu
9781771664899
$20.00
FICTION
May 08, 2019
Aïcha lives with her mother in Montreal's Centre-Sud neighbourhood. She's only thirteen but claims to be older. She has never known her father, and resents her mother for leaving Hakim, her stepfather. Her only friends are Mel and Jo, two local prostitutes, and Baz, a musician in his twenties, who comes to her rescue one day and with whom she proceeds to fall in love. Her impossible love for Baz, her precociousness and her rebellious streak come together into an explosive cocktail. Raw and heartrending, Worst Case, We Get Married is the stateme...
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6.
Series:
I Am a Body of Land
Paperback
Shannon Webb-Campbell
9781771664776
$18.00
POETRY
Jan 08, 2019
I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell explores poetic responsibility and accountability, and frames poetry as a form of revisioning. In these poems, Webb-Campbell returns to her own text Who Took My Sister?, to examine her self and to decolonize, unlearn, and undo harm. By reconsidering individual poems and letters, Webb-Campbell's confessional writing circles back upon itself to ask questions of her own settler-Indigenous identity and belonging to cry out for community, and call in with love.Edited and with an Introduction by multiple a...
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7.
Series:
Q & A
Paperback
Adrienne Gruber
9781771664721
$18.00
POETRY
Apr 01, 2019
Adrienne Gruber's third full poetry collection, Q & A, is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places, a grotesque history of the treatment of pregnant and birthing women reveals itself.
8.
Series:
War / Torn
Paperback
Hasan Namir
9781771664936
$18.00
POETRY
Apr 10, 2019
Hasan Namir's debut collection of poetry, War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity—the performance and sense of belonging they delineate and draw together. Namir summons prayer, violence, and the sensuality of love, revisiting tenets of Islam and dictates of war to break the barriers between the profane and the sacred.Praise for War / Torn:"War / Torn mourns, loves and burns all the derogatory impulses of our continuous present. This book is of and against our time. War / Torn is a breathless elegy in the mo...
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9.
Series:
Where, the Mile End
Paperback
Julie Morrissy
9781771664677
$18.00
POETRY
Apr 01, 2019
Where, the Mile End, Irish poet Julie Morrissy's debut collection, embodies an energetic lyricism that whips through Europe and North America with humour, curiosity and a distinct edginess. Morrissy's lines track emotional, physical, and geographical change, as she intimately links the vitality of two continents: the snow, the streets, the sensual memories. Where, the Mile End reimagines the places we inhabit, the moments we remember, the things we long for.Praise for Where, the Mile End:"Humming with energy and startlingly fresh, these poems c...
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10.
Series:
Disquieting
Essays on Silence
Paperback
Cynthia Cruz
9781771664356
$20.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 01, 2019
How do our bodies speak for us when words don?t suffice? How can we make ourselves understood when what we have to say is inarticulable?In Disquieting, Cynthia Cruz tarries with others who have provided examples of how to ?turn away,? or reject the ideologies of contemporary Neoliberal culture. These essays inhabit connections between silence, refusal, anorexia, mental illness, and Neoliberalism. Cruz also explores the experience of being working-class and poor in contemporary culture, and how those who are silenced often turn to forms of disqu...
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11.
Series:
Florine Stettheimer
New Directions in Multimodal Modernism
Paperback
Irene Gammel
9781771665018
$25.00
ART
Oct 03, 2019
This collection of essays explores the multimodality of the work of Jazz-era New York saloniere, painter, and poet Florine Stettheimer, allowing readers to discover why Andy Warhol once called her his favourite artist. Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism brings to light the prescient theorizing of a dissolution between high and low art that Stettheimer's highly original and boldly interdisciplinary aesthetic pioneered and that artists like Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O'Keeffe and Warhol understood and admired.Conceived of as...
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12.
Series:
Je Nathanaël
Paperback
Nathanael
9781771665094
$18.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 2019
Je Nathanaël is an endangered text. Neither essay nor poem nor novel nor sex-show, what it takes from language it gives back to the body.In this new and updated veresion of Je Nathanaël, first published by BookThug in 2006, Nathanaël explores ways in which language constrains the body, shackles it to gender, and proposes instead a different way of reading, where words are hermaphroditic and transform desire in turn. Suggesting that one body conceals another, it lends an ear to this other body and delights in the anxiety it provokes. With parts ...
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