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One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Canadian Books • One of the CBC’s Canadian Fiction Books to Read in Fall 2024…
Women Talking meets Study for Obedience in this stunning depiction of fresh grief by Fawn Parker, the Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author of What We Both Know.Shortly after her mother’s death, Fawn arrives at the farmhouse. While there, she will stay in her mother’s bedroom in the house that is also occupied by four other women who live by an unusual set of beliefs.Wrestling with longstanding compulsive and harmful behaviours, as well as severe self-doubt, Fawn is confronted with the reality of her mother’s death. It is her responsibility to catalogue the furniture and possessions in the room, then sell or dispose of them. Instead, Fawn becomes fixated on archiving her mother’s writing and documents, searching for signs, and drawing tenuous connections to help her understand more about the enigmatic woman in the pages.I am surrounded by mocking evidence of her inhabitancy of this room. Quickly, it is expiring. Today she was alive. When the day runs out that will no longer be true. Tomorrow I will be able to say that yesterday she was alive, at least. The next day, nothing. She will just be dead. The fact seems to be at its smallest now, growing with time. For now she is many things, and there are many places left to find her.In Hi, It’s Me, Fawn Parker is unafraid to explore the bewildering relationship between the living and the dead. Strikingly original, provocative, and engrossing Hi, It’s Me takes us into the furthest corners of grief, invoking the physicality and painful embodiment of terminal illness with astonishing precision and emotional force. This mesmerizing, devastating novel asks: Why must it be this way?
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Roman magistral sur les relations féminines intergénérationnelles et la résistance que l'on retrouve dans les endroits les plus improbables, Nous,…
Jane explore la précarité de l'existence rurale et le droit fondamental à l'avortement. Cherchant à donner un sens à sa vie, Marthe entame une amitié intense avec une femme plus âgée, également originaire de Terre-Neuve. Celle-ci lui raconte une histoire de but, de devoir à accomplir qui porte un nom : Jane. Accompagnée par sa nouvelle amie, Marthe quitte sa vie montréalaise et retourne dans une petite communauté de l'ile pour poursuivre le travail d'un mouvement clandestin du Chicago des années 1960 : les services d'avortement pratiqués par des femmes, toujours appelées Jane. Elle s'engage à perpétuer cet héritage et à protéger ses nouvelles connaissances. Mais la noblesse de la tâche et la réalité de la vie en région éloignée entrent en compétition, et les fractures personnelles au sein du petit groupe commencent à se creuser. Nous, Jane sonde l'importance du travail de soins effectué par les femmes pour les femmes, souligne la complexité des relations dans ces réseaux, et capture magnifiquement l'inévitable conflit intérieur qui accompagne le retour au bercail
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An engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma around mental…
illness Sixteen-year-old Mira Durand has just been checked into the secure unit of the Residency Adolescent Treatment Centre for obsessive compulsive and comorbid disorders. Four years of being passed around different psych wards like a hot potato have only worsened her OCD and anorexia. Her brutal, religious compulsions, which she believes keep her mom safe, make her less of a clean freak and more of a freak freak. No wonder her only friend is her journal. At the Residency's Ward 2, Mira discovers that her shrink is a fellow fantasy nerd and that her wardmates have enough of their own high-risk behaviours to tolerate hers. The complex friendships she forms with them (including a first love), the slow trust she builds with her treatment team, and the outside and family visits she earns give her things to look forward to beyond the drudgery of her compulsions. But it takes visiting Gung Gung, her dying maternal grandfather, for her to realize that to truly live, she must fight the cognitive distortions at the heart of her compulsions. Based on the author's personal experience, A Drop in the Ocean is a gritty, humanizing portrait of living with mental illness
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Une femme s'installe dans un pays nordique, d'où ses ancêtres ont été chassés, afin de s'occuper de son frère récemment…
divorcé et de sa maison. Autour de ce vaste manoir, la campagne est le théâtre d'événements inexplicables affectant les animaux de ferme. Misant sur sa dévotion et sur son obéissance pour se faire accepter des villageois, la jeune femme découvre bientôt que ses gestes ont l'effet inverse. Tandis que la suspicion dont elle fait l'objet se transforme en hostilité, l'héroïne de ce roman déroutant et hypnotique est plongée dans des rapports de force où pouvoir, soumission, histoire et violence s'opposent
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THREE STARRED REVIEWS! From award-winning author Kenneth Oppel comes a startling, can't-wait-to-talk-about-it-with-someone novel that defies genre to create a teen…
survival thriller unlike any you've read before. For fans of Leave the World Behind, A.S. King, M.T. Anderson, and Margaret Atwood.Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad's pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations, and it's only for a short time. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only . . . one morning he wakes up and the house isn't where it was before. It's like it's been lifted and placed . . . somewhere else.When Xavier, his dad, and Nia go explore, they find they are inside a dome, trapped. And there's no one else around . . . Until, three years later, another family arrives.Is there any escape? Is there a reason they are stuck where they are? Different people have different answers — and those different answers inexorably lead to tension, strife, and sacrifice.In this masterpiece, award-winning author Kenneth Oppel builds a heart-stopping story that feels very much of our moment, where our very human choices collectively lead to humanity's eventual fate.
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Quand Sam révèle à sa meilleure amie, Léa, qu'elle a été agressée lors du party d'Halloween, c'est le choc. Le…
problème, c'est que Sam n'a aucune idée de l'identité du coupable. Léa est si bouleversée qu'elle convainc Sam de s'inscrire avec elle à des cours d'autodéfense dans le but explicite de se venger dès qu'elles l'auront identifié. Mais que faire si ce coupable se révèle finalement être plus proche qu'elles le pensaient ?
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General fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Suspense and thrillers
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One of Indigo&’s Most Anticipated Canadian Books • One of the CBC&’s Canadian Fiction Books to Read in Fall 2024…
Women Talking meets Study for Obedience in this stunning depiction of fresh grief by Fawn Parker, the Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author of What We Both Know.Shortly after her mother&’s death, Fawn arrives at the farmhouse. While there, she will stay in her mother&’s bedroom in the house that is also occupied by four other women who live by an unusual set of beliefs.Wrestling with longstanding compulsive and harmful behaviours, as well as severe self-doubt, Fawn is confronted with the reality of her mother&’s death. It is her responsibility to catalogue the furniture and possessions in the room, then sell or dispose of them. Instead, Fawn becomes fixated on archiving her mother&’s writing and documents, searching for signs, and drawing tenuous connections to help her understand more about the enigmatic woman in the pages.I am surrounded by mocking evidence of her inhabitancy of this room. Quickly, it is expiring. Today she was alive. When the day runs out that will no longer be true. Tomorrow I will be able to say that yesterday she was alive, at least. The next day, nothing. She will just be dead. The fact seems to be at its smallest now, growing with time. For now she is many things, and there are many places left to find her.In Hi, It&’s Me, Fawn Parker is unafraid to explore the bewildering relationship between the living and the dead. Strikingly original, provocative, and engrossing Hi, It&’s Me takes us into the furthest corners of grief, invoking the physicality and painful embodiment of terminal illness with astonishing precision and emotional force. This mesmerizing, devastating novel asks: Why must it be this way?