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| Title: As the Andes Disappeared |
| By (author): Caroline Dawson Translated by: Anita Anand |
| ISBN10-13: 177166861X : 9781771668613 |
| Shortlisted for the 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardWinner of the 2022 Prix littéraire des CollégiensNominated for the 2021 Prix des libraires du QuebecCaroline is seven years old when her family flees Pinochetâ s regime, leaving Chile for Montreal on Christmas Eve, 1986. She fears Santa wonâ t find them on the plane but wakes to find a new doll at her side, her mother preserving the holiday even amidst persecution and turmoil. This symbol of care is repeated throughout their relocation as her parents work tirelessly to provide the family with a new vision of the future.Once in Canada, Caroline accompanies her parents as they clean banks at night. She experiences racist microaggressions at school, discovers Québécois popular culture, and explores her love of reading and writing in French. Slowly, the Andean peaks disappear from Carolineâ s drawings and a fracture between her parentsâ identity and her own begins to grow.This expansive coming-of-age autobiographical novel probes the plurality of identity, elucidating the interwoven complexities of immigrating to a new country. As the Andes Disappeared tenderly reflects the journey of millions and is a beautiful ode to family commitment and the importance of homeâ however layered that may be. |
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Pages: 208
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| Published: Book*hug Press - November 2023 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 1 of: 10 |
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| Title: Disobedience |
| By (author): Daniel Sarah Karasik |
| ISBN10-13: 1771668970 : 9781771668972 |
| Shael lives in a vast prison camp, a monstrosity developed after centuries of warfare and environmental catastrophe. As a young transfeminine person, they risk abject violence if their identity and love affair with Coe, an insurrectionary activist, are discovered. But desire and rebellion flare, and soon Shael escapes to Riverwish, a settlement attempting to forge a new way of living that counters the campâ s repression.As the complexities of this place unfold before Shael, Disobedience asks: How can a community redress harm without reproducing unaccountable forms of violence? How do we heal? What might a compassionate, sustainable model of justice look like?This is a remarkable work of queer and trans speculative fiction that imagines how alternative forms of connection and power can refuse the violent institutions that engulf us. |
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Pages: 220
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| Published: Book*hug Press - May 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 18.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 2 of: 10 |
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| Title: Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes |
| Sub-title: Essays on Motherhood |
| By (author): Adrienne Gruber |
| ISBN10-13: 1771669039 : 9781771669030 |
| Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is a revelatory collection of personal essays that subverts the stereotypes and transcends the platitudes of family life to examine motherhood with blistering insight.Documenting the birth and early life of her three daughters, Adrienne Gruber shares what it really means to use oneâ s body to bring another life into the world and the lasting ramifications of that act on both parent and child. Each piece peers into the seemingly mundane to show us the mortal and emotional consequences of maternal bonds, placing experiences of â being a momâ within broader contextsâ historical, literary, biological, and psychologicalâ to speak to the ugly realities of parenthood often omitted from mainstream conversations.Ultimately, these deeply moving, graceful essays force us to consider how close we are to death, even in the most average of moments, and how beauty is a necessary celebration amidst the chaos of being alive. |
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Pages: 172
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| Published: Book*hug Press - May 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 18.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 3 of: 10 |
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| Title: Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise |
| By (author): Natasha Kanapé Fontaine Translated by: Howard Scott |
| ISBN10-13: 1771668946 : 9781771668941 |
| Monica, a young woman studying art history in Montreal, has lost touch with her Innu roots. When an exhibition unexpectedly articulates a deep, intergenerational wound, she begins to search for stronger connections to her Indigeneity. A new friendship with Katherine, an Indigenous woman whose life is filled with culture and community, emphasizes for Monica the possibilities of turning from assimilation and toxic masculinity to something deeper and more universal.Travelling across the continent, from Eastern Canada to Vancouver to Mexico City, Monica connects with other Indigenous artists and thinkers, learning about their traditional ways and the struggles of other Nations. Throughout these journeys, she is guided by visions of giant birds and ancestors that draw her back home to Pessamit. Reckonings with family and floods await, but amidst strange tides, she reconnects to her language, Innu-aimun, and her people.A timely, riveting story of reclamation, matriarchies, and the healing power of traditional teachings, Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise affirms how reconnecting to lineage and community can transform Indigenous futures. |
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Pages: 236
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| Published: Book*hug Press - June 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 18.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 10 |
| Title: 4 of: 10 |
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| Title: Nilling |
| Sub-title: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, The Codex, Melancholy, Lucretiun, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias |
| By (author): Lisa Robertson |
| ISBN10-13: 1897388896 : 9781897388891 |
"I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendtâ s idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous and knotted agency to be found there. Just beneath the surface of the phonemes, a gendered name rhythmically explodes into a founding variousness. And then the strictures of the text assert again themselves. I want to claim for this inconspicuousness a transformational agency that runs counter to the teleology of readerly intention. Syllables might call to gods who do and donâ t exist. That is, they appear in the textâ s absences and densities as a motile graphic and phonemic force that abnegates its own necessity. Overwhelmingly in my submission to readingâ s supple snare, I feel love."
Nilling is a sequence of 6 loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are essays on reading. Lisa Robertson applies an acute eye to the subject of reading and writingâ two elemental forces that, she suggests, cannot be separated.For Robertson, a book is an intimacy, and with keen and insightful language, Nillingâ s essays build into a lively yet close conversation with Robertsonâ s â mastersâ : past writers, philosophers, and idealists who have guided her reading (and writing) practice to this point.If "a reader is a beginner," then even regular readers of Robertsonâ s kind of deep thinking will delight in the infinite folding together of conceptsâ the codex, pornography, melancholy, citiesâ that on their own may seem banal, but in their twisting intertextuality, make for a scintillating study of reading as a deep engagement. |
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Pages: 96
Size: 228.6x154.94mm
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| Published: Book*hug Press - March 2012 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Anthologies (non-poetry) |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 5 of: 10 |
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| Title: Oh Witness Dey! |
| By (author): Shani Mootoo |
| ISBN10-13: 1771668768 : 9781771668767 |
| Shani Mootooâ s great-great-grandparents were brought to Trinidad as indentured labourers by the British. There is no record of where they were from in India or whether it was kidnapping, trickery, or false promises of wealth that took them to the Caribbean. In Oh Witness Dey! Mootoo expands the question of origins, from ancestry percentages and journey narratives, through memory, story, and lyric fragments. These vibrant poems transcend the tropes of colonial violence through saints and spices, rebellion and joy, to reimagine tensions and solidarities among various diasporas. They circumvent traditional conventions of style to find new routes toward understanding. They invite the reader to witness history, displacements, and the legacies of our inheritance. |
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Pages: 188
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| Published: Book*hug Press - March 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Anthologies (non-poetry) |
| List Price: 14.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 10 |
| Title: 6 of: 10 |
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| Title: Play |
| By (author): Jess Taylor |
| ISBN10-13: 1771668792 : 9781771668798 |
| You will talk about 2016. You will talk about The Lighted City. You will be brave and truthful. You will get to the bottom of what happened.Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too grown-up. But The Lighted City isnâ t without danger.Years later, Paul is struggling with PTSD after a season of turmoilâ one in which Adrian is dead, and radio and television are filled with reports of missing children. Just as stability is settling into her life and relationships, Paul is dragged back into the fate that Adrian seems to have scripted for them. And so she finds herself journeying across the country, down into a ravine, and back to The Lighted City, where so much of her childhood played out. Only by doing so can she begin to come to terms with â the day everything happenedâ â and what has unfolded since then. With a unique blend of contemporary storytelling and psychological fiction, Play is a haunting, riveting novel that reminds us of both the beauty and danger of imagination. |
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Pages: 354
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| Published: Book*hug Press - April 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Anthologies (non-poetry) |
| List Price: 18.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 7 of: 10 |
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| Title: The Legend of Baraffo |
| By (author): Moez Surani |
| ISBN10-13: 1771668415 : 9781771668415 |
| In Baraffo, a town gripped by revolutionary fervour, a boy named Mazzu grapples to understand the motivations of Babello, a man imprisoned for an act of arson. When Babello begins a hunger strike and another building is set ablaze, tensions mount among the citizens and Mazzu considers a risky solution.Within an extraordinary world, this sweeping and mythical story asks prescient questions about the nature of social change: is it better accelerated by those who seek total transformation or attained by those trying to work within the system? |
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Pages: 280
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| Published: Book*hug Press - September 2023 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Anthologies (non-poetry) |
| List Price: 18.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 8 of: 10 |
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| Title: The Men |
| Sub-title: A Lyric Book |
| By (author): Lisa Robertson |
| ISBN10-13: 0973974257 : 9780973974256 |
| The Men is a work that will be both familiar and fresh to anyone who has read Lisa Robertson. As a poet Robertson has received unrivaled praise for her uncompromising intelligence and style. The Men will not only compliment her previous work, but will add a new layer as a far more personal and lyrical book than anything she has yet published. Who are the men? The Men are a riddle. What do they want? Their troubles become lyric. The Men explores a territory between the poet and a lyric lineage among men. Following a tradition that includes Petrarch's Sonnets, Cavalcanti, Dante's works on the vernacular, Montaigne, and even Kant, Robertson is compelled towards the construction of the textual subjectivity these authors conveyâ a subjectivity that honours all the ambivalence, doubt, and tenderness of the human. Yet she remains angered by the structure of gender these works advance. It is this troubled texture of identification that she examines in The Men. How does a woman of the present century see herself, in men's lyric texts of the renaissance, in the tradition of the philosophy of the male subject, as well as in the men that surround her, obfuscating, dear, idiotic and gorgeous as they often seem? What if "she" wrote "his" poems? At once intimate and oblique, humorous and heartbreaking, composed and furious, The Men seeks to defamiliarize both who, and what men are. |
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Pages: 69
Size: 205.74x107.95mm
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| Published: Book*hug Press - May 2006 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Reprint under Consideration
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| Title: These Songs I Know By Heart |
| By (author): Erin Brubacher |
| ISBN10-13: 1771669004 : 9781771669009 |
| Finalist for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for FictionMarried and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if sheâ s going through life out of order. But Alice, The Turtle, The Kid, and other beloveds show her that motherhood is more than giving birth, art is never finished, and love is not linear.Through a three-day canoe trip, chance encounters, fierce female friendship, step-parenting, IVF, pandemic isolation, and quiet moments between humans, These Songs I Know By Heart weaves vignettes of everyday mythology into an absorbing and honest meditation on the connections in our lives. With razor-sharp reflection, humour, and most of all love, we are reminded that thereâ s no formula to life and that instead, we must celebrate what makes the small moments of our lives extraordinary. |
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Pages: 204
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| Published: Book*hug Press - May 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 16.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 10 |
| Title: 10 of: 10 |
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