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Anand Mahadevan,
The Strike
Twelve-year-old Hari tries to make sense of his tumultuous and complex
world in 1980s India. His experiment at eating fish leads to the
accidental death of his grandmother; his preference for Hindi over his
mother tongue Tamil leads to slanderous graffiti against his family in
Madras; and his friendship with the family maid lands him in trouble
with a militant Tamil film fan and political functionary called Vishu.
Matters come to a head when MGR, a film star turned politician dies and
his supporters led by Vishu declare a strike, trapping Hari and his
mother in a train bound for Madras...
"Mahadevan engages all the
reader's senses with writing that is vivid and exotic, very often
erotic, and touched throughout with gentle humour. He writes with such
compassion that while reading this book you will undoubtedly nod in
recognition of your own family and loves and sometimes foolish self."— Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees
"Mahadevan’s language often enters the realm of the poetic, allowing
the reader to taste the slick oil of sizzling puris and the salted rust
of trains . . ."— City Masala
FICTION
ISBN 9781894770309
$18.95
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Nigel Thomas,
Behind the Face of Winter
A coming-of-age novel set in a Montreal in which
immigrant youth totter on the edge of self-destruction and oblivion, in
the face of brutal and racist police, an insensitive education system,
and few prospects for the future. Thomas’s language is spare, and his
crackling dialogue and use of patois can compare with the best in
Caribbean literature.
“…a hard story, sometimes despairingly
bleak, but it is also undeniably beautiful…worth reading – and
rereading…”
—Quill & Quire
FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661956
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H Nigel Thomas,
Return to Arcadia
When at age 51, Joshua Éclair—victim of a pygmalianism gone
awry—emerges from amnesia in a hospital in Montreal, he must
explore what makes him want to erase his identity, and must
undertake the process of exorcising what has brought him to this
pass. This is the gripping story of a man’s search for sanity
set in the fictional Caribbean Isabella Island and the various
places Joshua has fled to: Montreal, New York, Tallahassee,
London, Paris and Madrid.
This is a finely accomplished novel about a very modern
predicament: the malformed dysfunctional identity in the global
village.
FICTION
ISBN 9781894770385 $20.95
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Anurima Banerji,
Night
Artillery
Passionate and subtly exotic, keenly aware of Persian
mystical love concepts, and with a trained eye on Hindu mythology, these
supple new poems explore the territories of love, the longings of the
body, and the pains of loss and exile.
“... lyrics that are almost too posh,
almost too sumptuous...hauntingly lovely.”
—Halifax Chronicle Herald
POETRY
ISBN 9780920661901
$13.95
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Leah
Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha,
Consensual Genocide
This long-awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer
and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the
stories we’ve been waiting for. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka’s
civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full
of heart and guts, telling raw truths about brown girl border crossings
before and after 9/11, surviving abuse, mixed-race journeys and high
femme rebellions. Consensual Genocide celebrates our survival and marks
our rebel memories into history.
“Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's words leap off the
page–urgent, sumptuous writing that demands, and deserves, a wide
audience. I'm listening.”— Anna Camilleri, author of I Am a Red Dress,
editor Red Light and Brazen Femmes
POETRY
ISBN 9781894770293
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Trish Salah,
Wanting in Arabic
Wanting in Arabic is a refusal of
convenient silences, convenient stories. The author dwells on the
contradictions of a transsexual poetics, in its attendant disfigurations
of lyric, ghazal, l’ecriture feminine, and, in particular, her own sexed
voice. Without a memory of her father’s language, the questions her
poems ask are those for a home known through photographs, for a language
lost with childhood.
“Trish Salah's poetic sequence is not
simply a narrative of gender change; it's a wandering, thoughtful text,
one both fierce and tremulous.” —Erin Mouré
“...Salah’s writing bosoms up every damn dam in the literary waterway.”
—The Globe and Mail
POETRY
ISBN 9781894770002
$16.95
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