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Beautifully written, these stories depict a search for human connection and an attempt to fit in far from home. The thirteen stories in Kathy Friedman's All the Shining People explore migration,...

A debut collection of short stories by Eva Crocker, in which the author gives us an unforgettable array of ordinary people, sometimes soaring, sometimes sinking, but always, ultimately, barrelling...

Genre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community. A couple in a crumbling marriage faces divine intervention. A woman...

A collection of nine short stories by Canadian author Laura Trunkey.Author: Laura TrunkeyPublisher: AstoriaPublication Date: Mar 26, 2016Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Set in "Little Jamaica," Frying Plantain follows one young girl from elementary school to high school graduation in twelve interconnected stories that expose the tensions between mothers and...

Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink. Saeed Teebi's intense, engrossing stories plunge...

A new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha B?iz. The nineteen stories in Broken feature strong but damaged female characters in crisis...

Nothing Could Be Further From The TruthAuthor: Christopher EvansPublisher: AstoriaPublication Date: Feb 01, 2022Number of Pages: 248 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

These stories feature a unique examination of science and its effects on the human heart.Author: Irina KovalyovaPublisher: AstoriaPublication Date: Mar 15, 2016Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage:...

A collection of stories that focus on the idea of progress in humanity's never-ending cycle of creation and destruction.Author: Erin Frances FisherPublisher: AstoriaPublication Date: Mar 05,...

A dazzling work of vision and imagination by award-winning author Cary Fagan.Author: Cary FaganPublisher: AstoriaPublication Date: Oct 03, 2017Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

As entertaining as they are insightful, the stories in The Path of Most Resistance are anchored by the concept of passive aggression in our everyday lives: ordinary people who are quietly,...

Moving, insightful, linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants -- despite duty, discrimination, and an ever-dissolving link to a war-torn homeland. In the insular rooms of The...

Told in the tradition of Richard Linklater's Boyhood and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Thirteen Shells is a novel-in-stories about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s.Author: Nadia...

Intimate stories about Zimbabweans in moments of transition that force them to decide who they really are and choose the people they call their own. Set in Toronto and Zimbabwe, the twelve elegant...