Description
"The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back."
"Like meeting a stranger, much of the pleasure of a story is its unknown power," writes Best Canadian Stories 2020 guest editor Paige Cooper. "The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back." From Festival du Voyageur to the shores of Lake Erie, Tbilisi to Toronto, the Amisk River to a hotel-turned-hospital in the midst of a mysterious pandemic, this wide-ranging anthology brings together the real and the speculative, small towns and big cities, grief and humour, introducing readers to stories that startle us into new understanding--of ourselves and each other, the worlds we inhabit and the ones they help us to imagine.
Featuring work by:
Maxime Raymond Bock - Lynn Coady - Kristyn Dunnion - Omar El Akkad - Camilla Grudova - Conor Kerr - Alex Leslie - Thea Lim - Madeleine Maillet - Cassidy McFadzean - Michael Melgaard - Jeff Noh - Casey Plett - Eden Robinson - Naben Ruthnum - Pablo Strauss - Souvankham Thammavongsa
Author: Paige Cooper
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 10/20/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781771963626
ISBN10: 177196362X
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Canadian
About the Author
Paige Cooper is an author and short story writer from Montreal. Her stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Gulf Coast Online, Michigan Quarterly Review, CAROUSEL, Minola Review, and The New Quarterly, and have been anthologized in The Journey Prize Stories and Best Canadian Stories. She received the QWF Concordia University First Book Prize in 2018 for her debut novel, Zolitude.