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{"id":6814254235707,"title":"Passing Ceremony","handle":"passing-ceremony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, one of the first feminist writers in Canada and the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBasic Black With Pearls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Helen Weinzweig’s brilliant debut novel, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom — and just about everyone else at the surreal and strangely moving wedding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a piece of music, \u003ci\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/i\u003e is composed of brief, suggestive fragments that grow into a tightly integrated whole. There are bits of real and imagined conversation; polite dialogues that slide into mad comic banality; and scenes that could be quiet nightmares out of Borges. 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Her novels have been taught and discussed in women’s studies courses across campuses. She was a highly regarded literary figure in the 1960s and 1970s; her works speak to the experiences of women who lived during that time, and her style and voice was groundbreaking.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e by Helen Weinzweig will be published by the New York Review of Books in Fall 2017.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe A List edition will feature an introduction by Jim Polk.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThis A List edition coincides with both the 150th anniversary of Canada’s confederation and the 50th anniversary of House of Anansi Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eYou sit there, father of the bride, you sit there straight and proud. In the middle of a middle row to the right of the aisle. How is it you are not in your rightful place, in the second pew to the left, beside the mother of the bride? It is your son Thomas who sits there in your stead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are being examined: more eyes are on you than on your daughter repeating her vows.\nSpeculations. You are taking an awful risk being here. And if you had to bring your little dark wife, poor child, so young, why did you not dress her properly?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd as sensitive observers we should be registering your deeply moving feelings, or, at the very least, some sentimental reflections. You are being stubborn. We cannot read you. Give us something to go on: some memories, a few regrets. Alternatively, cogent theories on marriage gleaned from your vast studies: references to tribal customs would be acceptable. Yet nothing of literary interest comes through. No philosophies? We remember you as quite a philosopher, with a tendency to place mundane events in historical, usually ancient Greek, perspective. Surely, this is the very moment … ah … a passing thought: the groom appears to you as a man without bones, the kind whose flesh is as yielding as a woman’s; and the idea of those two softnesses copulating is disgusting to you. Too strong? Offensive, merely, then. That will have to do for now. Perhaps, later, at the reception, after a few drinks, we’ll get back to you.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWeinzweig is considered one of the first feminist writers in Canada, \u003cem\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/em\u003e was her debut novel. Her novels have been taught and discussed in women’s studies courses across campuses. She was a highly regarded literary figure in the 1960s and 1970s; her works speak to the experiences of women who lived during that time, and her style and voice was groundbreaking.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eBasic Black with Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e by Helen Weinzweig will be published by the New York Review of Books in Fall 2017.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe A List edition will feature an introduction by Jim Polk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis A List edition coincides with both the 150th anniversary of Canada’s confederation and the 50th anniversary of House of Anansi Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“A remarkable piece of writing.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Polished, forceful, and poetic.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Handled with skill.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChatelaine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“A brilliant first work of fiction.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Edmonton Journal","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“[Passing Ceremony] crackles with the energy of chance. Its form seems built from mysterious, unconscious forces . . . As a whole, the powerful novel resembles a shattered reflection in a mirror, each page a different-sized shard of a splintered psyche . . . There’s a reason people are returning to [Helen Weinzweig’s] work now. Her art was committed to unshackling us from the illusion of any form of certainty — to keeping the unknown, unknown.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2017-08-26","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Passing Ceremony
A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.
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{"id":6814249615419,"title":"Norma","handle":"norma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the international bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePurge \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhen the Doves Disappeared\u003c\/i\u003e comes a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood — and the moods of those around her — corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother’s funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSetting out to reconstruct Anita’s final months, Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair’s power than she let on. As Sofi Oksanen leads us deeper into Norma’s world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women’s bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:22-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:23:38-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","Book Club Pick","By (author) Oksanen Sofi","pub date: 2017-09-02","Translated by Witesman Owen F."],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40206677835835,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001742","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Norma - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":380,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487001742","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40206679343163,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001766","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Norma - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001766","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40206680326203,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001957","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Norma - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487001957","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1ae75b19-b18f-4cb7-a40f-d2dd32c07172.jpg?v=1655626975"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1ae75b19-b18f-4cb7-a40f-d2dd32c07172.jpg?v=1655626975","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243440328763,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1ae75b19-b18f-4cb7-a40f-d2dd32c07172.jpg?v=1655626975"},"aspect_ratio":0.667,"height":2475,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1ae75b19-b18f-4cb7-a40f-d2dd32c07172.jpg?v=1655626975","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the international bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePurge \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhen the Doves Disappeared\u003c\/i\u003e comes a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood — and the moods of those around her — corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother’s funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSetting out to reconstruct Anita’s final months, Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair’s power than she let on. As Sofi Oksanen leads us deeper into Norma’s world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women’s bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Norma
A spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.
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Federica
Federica's busy family can't keep their house clean! She goes to the park to escape the buzzy, buggy mess and her animal friends give her an idea ...
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Its characters keep talking in your head even after you put the stories down, coming back when you least expect it. Bright like nightmares, yet gauzy like half-remembered dreams — a unique touch.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Russell Wangersky, author of The Path of Most Resistance","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Paul Carlucci’s collection thrums with violence. The damaged, deranged, and dangerous are flayed open on the page by vivid, razor-sharp prose. These stories, steeped in darkness, disturb and captivate in equal measure.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Laura Trunkey, author of Double Dutch","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Paul Carlucci has a gift for the dark and the heartbreaking. In this myriad collection of stories, we meet people who have been confronted with all manner of quiet disasters. 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A Plea for Constant Motion
Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, collection of stories.
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Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Mikko Harvey's poetry collection Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit is limited to 50 copies.
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The Snuggly
A treasure box, a book, a snack, a stray kitten, a jar of pollywogs and a travel mug – what else can Todd fit in his sister’s snuggly?
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The evocative truth and the crystalline ring of his words, line by line, make a kind of hope in themselves.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"W.S. Merwin, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner The Shadow of Sirius","OtherText_Accolades_1":"An inter-genre tour de force, The Long Take is a restless reimagining of conventional poetics. Through the poem’s protagonist, Robertson has cast a national, cultural, psychological, and class outsider of vibrant and seedy post-war America into a palpable anti-hero eerily resonant with our contemporary world. With syncopated rhythms, staccato dialogue, and jump-scenes, the book weaves dizzying, jazz-like meditations on PTSD, masculinity, betrayal, and salvation by embodying, in sound, scent, and sixth-sense, one of America’s most hopeful and devastating decades. The result is a ravishing achievement.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Ocean Vuong, author of the T.S. 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The Long Take is a masterly work of art, exciting, colourful, fast-paced — the old-time movie reviewer’s vocabulary is apt to the case — and almost unbearably moving.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_2":"As a work of art, this dreamlike exploration is a triumph; as a timely allegory, it is disturbingly profound . . . Robertson’s The Long Take is one of the first major achievements of twenty-first-century English-language literature.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e offers a wholly unique literary voice and form. A verse novel with photographs, it manages to evoke with exceptional vividness aspects of post-World War Two history that are rarely parsed together. Swinging effortlessly between combat with its traumatic aftermath, and the brute redevelopment of American cities, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e shows us the ravages of capitalism as a continuation of war-time violence by other means. It is also a bold, eloquent homage to cinema as perhaps the only medium in which the true history of America has been preserved. This is a genre-defying novel. Cutting from battlefield to building demolitions in San Francisco and LA, to the killing of black men on the streets of America today, it imports into the very form of the writing one of the most famous film techniques: cross-cutting. You could be in the cinema, or listening to an elegy, or reading the story of one man’s devastating experience as he tries to rebuild the shards of his life after the war. A pageant of loss, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e is also a lyrical tribute to the power of writing and image to convey, and somehow survive, historic and ongoing suffering and injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Man Booker Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the inner journey of Canadian veteran Walker as he travels from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco attempting to rebuild his life after living through the horrors of war in Europe. In poetry of the utmost beauty, Robin Robertson interweaves themes from the great age of black and white films, the destruction of communities as cities destroy the old to build the new, the horrors of McCarthyism and the terrible psychological wounds left by war. Robertson shows us things we’d rather not see and asks us to face things we’d rather not face. 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With its undeniable beauty; quiet, modest but strong pull, this book will shift something in your soul. By the time you have finished reading it, you won't quite be the same.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Goldsmiths Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e remarkably captures linguistic styles of 1940s American writing — Saroyan and Steinbeck. As it progresses into the mid-50s we’re hearing Ginsberg and Baldwin … you will be washed in all these when you read this poem … Robertson has chosen a supremely uncomfortable, recognizable flashpoint in U.S. history, an almost perfect mirror image of the nation today: crude, newly unleashed material ambitions mix with off-the-chart levels of fear and paranoia. 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The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
The Bunny Band
A rhyming romp of a tale about a badger and a band of bunnies.
