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Witty and painfully honest essays about perfection vs. reality: "Hilarious...[an] incredibly distinctive voice." —Emma Gannon, bestselling author of Olive
From the author of the popular newsletter That's What She Said, Nobody Cares is a candid personal essay collection about work, failure, friendship, and the messy business of being alive in your twenties and thirties.
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"Two mismatched ducks quarrel amorously. A tortoise basks on a rock in the sun. Four deer ceremoniously visit a writer's garden to announce the arrival of a newborn fawn. In Archives of Joy, renowned poet, essayist, and novelist Jean-François Beauchemin turns his poetic and playful gaze to memories of animals he has known throughout his life, from fleeting encounters to deep relationships. With each meeting, Beauchemin returns to a simple thought:...
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"Locations of Grief: An Emotional Geography is a commemoration of the "homesick grief for the lost places of your past" or as the Welsh call it, "hiraeth." In these pages, Catherine Owen has collected a remarkable collection of stories of healing, of pain and of reflections on what death can do to our lives. Exploring the landscapes of grief and death, this collection takes the reader through a series of essays, drawn together from twenty-five Canadian...
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"John Brady MacDonald has lived in Kistahpinanihk, an area that includes Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, for nearly all his life. A member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation and a descendent of Metis leader Jim Brady, John Brady has worked to move carefully between these two nations -- to learn their stories, honour their traditions and reclaim their languages, all of which were nearly lost to him. In this wide-ranging collection the author looks at everything...
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