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The Butcher's Hook
Anne Jaccob, a nineteen-year old daughter of a wealthy merchant falls in love with Fub, the butcher’s son — an imperfect match.
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Fever at Dawn
A story of love based on the original ninety-six letters written by Miklós and Lili, two Holocaust survivors, and the author’s parents.
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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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Fear
A masterpiece of psychological suspense for fans of The Dinner and We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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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
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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A Twilight Celebration
The eighth in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. A Twilight Celebration is a spellbinding novel brimming with urgent concerns and irrepressible empathy, true to Blais' singular idiom.
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No one knew that these cattle were out here with the two men, some twenty miles south of the Lazy GS Ranch and the county line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Figger you could blot that brand?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I don’t have my gear on me,” answered Will. “Plus we’d have to wait for it to scar. Risky.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Well, we can’t just go and sell them in Ely. Word would get around too fast.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEly was the biggest livestock hub in this part of Nevada. Ranches from all over the eastern, central, and northern parts of the state sent their cattle through Ely on the way to Denver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Not sure what to do. The Swallows may be bastards, but we could still bring them their cattle back. They’d pay us handsomely.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLew sat up tall on his horse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Really, Bill? 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Will wasn’t about to get carried away, but the prospect of making somewhere in the region of five hundred dollars for a bit more than a week’s work was nothing to sneeze at. It would be enough to set Will up for the winter, maybe even the entire next year, without having to worry too much about what to do next. He’d finally have time to draw, maybe even travel to the West Coast and study at art school. He could visit his idol, the great cowboy painter Charles Russell, in his studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Okay then,” said Will. “We should get there in ten days or so. But you’re gonna have to follow my lead. I know the area better than you, and you’re pretty damn drunk. You got many of those jugs left?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHackberry indicated that he did not, and adopted a malicious look that had been known to get him into trouble. Will steered them back to the matter at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Once we get to Oasis, I know I can trust you. 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The next several days — or, rather, the next several nights — would be long.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePablo Strauss is the highly regarded translator of The Longest Year,\u003c\/strong\u003e which received two starred reviews and continues to see success across the U.S.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eResurgent interest in American Western genre\u003c\/strong\u003e after the success of Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, which was made into a highly acclaimed film in 2018 starring Joaquin Phoenix and Jake Gyllenhaal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe subject is a well-known writer himself\u003c\/strong\u003e, having won the Newbery Award, among other acclaim. 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The work thorough; the details conscientious; the writing is patient, sculpted, and refined . . . A novel dense, rich, and altogether surprising in its evocation of scenes from a century ago.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Presse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"La Presse","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Based on a true story, Benediction is a gritty, trenchantly observed tale of fraud and reinvention in the old American West.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2019-09-24","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Based on a true story, Benediction is a gritty, trenchantly observed tale of fraud and reinvention in the old American West.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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Based on a true story, Benediction is a gritty, trenchantly observed tale of fraud and reinvention in the old American West.
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The Family Clause
From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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There was something strange about the way she was moving, and he found himself slowing down. She was pacing up and down in front of the pond, looking for something. Her gait was lopsided, and, when she drew closer, he saw that her face was wet from tears that were blinding her. She didn’t notice Lawrie until the last moment, suddenly aiming towards him and coming up short as she took him in properly. She held herself rigid, her mouth gasping for air that her lungs didn’t seem to want to accept.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Ma’am?” Lawrie swung his leg and dismounted, making his movements slow so that she didn’t spook. “You all right? Can I help you?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eShe looked over her shoulder but turned back to him, fixing her eyes on his uniform. Whatever she’d seen was more frightening than one skinny black man. And there was no one else in sight. “You — you’re … a postman?” Her tongue tripped as she spoke.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Yes, ma’am. Do you need help?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eShe nodded and pointed in the direction she’d come from, a ragged sob creasing her body.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHe couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary at first. There was the pond, and there he spied the terrier. The small dog was soaked through. Barking urgently at him, it ran back towards the water.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“The pond.” The woman squeezed out the words, and he noticed now that her hands were filthy, her coat spattered with mud.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“There’s something in the pond?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eIt was useless. She had begun to shiver, her teeth actually chattering as shock took hold. Lawrie laid his bike down on the grass and headed towards the pond on foot. The dog was still barking in a fury, running laps between the edge of the pond and the path.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“What you got, boy?”\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe dog splashed into the water, checking back to make sure he was being followed. There was a bundle there, a dirty blanket that once had been white. Lawrie crouched by the edge next to a smaller set of footprints that must have belonged to the woman. It didn’t look like much, this wad of sodden wool, but that didn’t stop fear from squeezing his chest tight as he reached out with his right hand, the palm of his left sinking into freezing mud as he tried to keep his balance.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHe strained his arm and caught an inch of fabric between two fingers. Pulling gently, the bundle moved closer and he grabbed a tighter hold. The wool was heavy with water. White and yellow embroidered flowers peeked out from beneath the pond filth. Daisies. When he lifted it the bundle was heavier than he’d anticipated, but it wasn’t the weight that sent him crashing to the ground — only sheer luck landing him onto the bank rather than into the water. His heart pounded his ribs so hard that he glanced down at his chest, expecting to see it burst out through his coat, scattering buttons onto the ground.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eThe blanket lay there on the grass, the bundle coming apart. A baby’s arm had escaped, along with a shock of dark curly hair and a glimpse of a cheek. It could have been a doll, but one touch had been enough to convince him that it wasn’t. The hand was frozen stiff but the skin gave as his fingers had brushed against it.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eSomeone had left a baby in the pond to die. A baby whose skin was as dark as Lawrie’s.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Louise Hare’s debut novel pairs a poignant tale of young love and shameful prejudice with a twisting mystery, all embedded in a historical moment with keen contemporary resonance. Tantalizing ingredients to be sure, yet it’s her steady, calm prose, and the animating authenticity of her material that make [This Lovely City] so hard to resist.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_1":"Tenderly evokes the experiences of the Windrush generation in postwar London.","OtherText_Review_10":"Poignant and compelling.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Hello!","OtherText_Review_11":"An exciting ride … I demolished it in two sittings.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Daily Record","OtherText_Review_12":"Vividly captures the life of the times, and the trials faced by the Caribbean immigrants who were enticed to come to Britain by the government, but who faced discrimination and economic hurdles in society … [Louise Hare’s] characters are well developed … and give life to the immigrant community … This Lovely City’s many storylines — prejudice, romance, dark hidden secrets, immigrant life — are engaging and paint a vivid picture of life in a nation that is trying to reshape itself in the years following a devastating world war and new economic and societal challenges.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Independant","OtherText_Review_2":"You’ll root for Lawrie and Evie and won’t fail to notice the timely message of Hare’s beautifully told tale.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Cosmopolitan","OtherText_Review_3":"This Lovely City tells the story of a group of people searching for a place to belong and discovering the power of persistence and hope to carry them through.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_4":"Hare’s absorbing narrative builds a compelling portrait of immigrants struggling to belong to a country that needs but doesn’t really want them . . . A must read for fans of Zadie Smith and Call the Midwife.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_5":"This hotly anticipated debut offers a vivid portrait of the immigrant experience in postwar London.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_6":"You’ll be rooting for the pair from start to finish.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Glamour","OtherText_Review_7":"[A] mistress of suspense, Hare keeps us guessing to the last page. I loved the postwar atmosphere: bombed, broken London as a visual metaphor for the story’s violence and racism.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Daily Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"A well-told mystery, a powerful depiction of the prejudice experienced by the Windrush generation, and a poignant love story, This Lovely City is a must read.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_9":"Expect to be obsessed … [A book] you need to know about.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Good Housekeeping","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-04-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
This Lovely City
An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London who becomes a prime suspect in a grisly crime.
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Readers accustomed to the repetitive stories of textbooks and the media will be transported into the eye of the hurricane and enveloped in the close proximity and conflagration of war … and carried away by a pen that combines history and feeling with extraordinary panache. Don’t wait. 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I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.
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{"id":6811233976379,"title":"Securing Democracy","handle":"securing-democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this riveting follow-up to his acclaimed international bestseller \u003ci\u003eNo Place to Hide\u003c\/i\u003e, Glenn Greenwald documents the courageous fight for press freedom in Brazil, where authoritarianism and rampant corruption threaten the most fundamental principles of democracy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2019, award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald writes in his gripping new book, “a series of events commenced that once again placed me at the heart of a sustained and explosive journalistic controversy.” New reporting by Greenwald and a team of Brazilian journalists had brought to light stunning information about grave corruption, deceit, and wrongdoing by the most powerful political actors in Brazil, his home since 2005. 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Securing Democracy
Greenwald documents the courageous fight for press freedom in Brazil, where authoritarianism and rampant corruption threaten the most fundamental principles of democracy.
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{"id":6811233386555,"title":"Songs for Angel","handle":"songs-for-angel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe ninth novel in internationally acclaimed author Marie-Claire Blais’s extraordinary Soifs cycle, \u003ci\u003eSongs for Angel\u003c\/i\u003e is an impassioned interrogation of violence and hate that takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the penultimate installment of the magnificent and ambitious Soifs cycle, widely regarded as one of the most original and ambitious endeavors ever to be undertaken in contemporary literature, renowned novelist Marie-Claire Blais once again marries the highest artistic standards with the most pressing human and political concerns. 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Revisiting figures from the previous novels in a swirling fresco of more than a hundred characters, Blais also takes us into the soul of “the Young Man,” a white supremacist preparing to attack a Black church and murder its entire congregation. This is an extraordinary portrait of the times that jostles and discomboluates the reader while inviting us to see the world in all its injustice and distress, but also its promise and beauty. \u003ci\u003eSongs for Angel\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that Blais is a writer who never ceases to situate us in the world and the roles we play in it, and that reading her is always an unforgettable human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487006341","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Arachnide Editions","NumberOfPages":"184","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED LITERARY ICON:\u003c\/strong\u003e Over the course of her sixty-year career, Marie-Claire Blais has established herself as one of the most accomplished writers and a literary icon in multiple languages. She has garnered numerous prestigious awards and honours, including the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and she is frequently talked about as a possible winner of the Nobel Prize. In 2019, she was the subject of a major profile in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, which called her “one of the most distinctive and original living writers of fiction.” A new work from Blais is always a literary event.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE PENULTIMATE INSTALLMENT OF BLAIS’S MAGNUM OPUS:\u003c\/strong\u003e Blais’s ten-novel Soifs cycle, of which \u003cem\u003eSongs for Angel\u003c\/em\u003e is the ninth installment, has been hailed as one of the most remarkable literary undertakings in literature. It’s been compared to the works of Virginia Woolf in its literate, hyper-aware depiction of contemporary life. Readers who have been following the series in English since the beginning in 1997 will pick up this eagerly awaited new volume, and the cycle finds new readers every year.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA NEW AND ACCLAIMED TRANSLATOR TAKES ON THE SERIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e Katia Grubisic has already been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation for her work on David Clerson’s \u003cem\u003eFrères\u003c\/em\u003e in 2016. She’s also an award-winning poet. The Soifs series has strengthened the reputation of several major translators already. Sheila Fischman and Nigel Spencer both garnered major acclaim for their work on these books. We expect that this new voice in the series will be a boon to both her career and Blais’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA NOVEL AT THE HEART OF CONTEMPORARY ISSUES:\u003c\/strong\u003ePrevious novels in the series have dealt with vital topics like HIV\/AIDS, refugees, addiction, and nuclear apocalypse. In \u003cem\u003eSongs for Angel\u003c\/em\u003e, Blais takes on the incredibly timely topics of racism and terrrorism, told through the lens of a white supremacist planning a massacre based on the Charleston church shooting in 2015. As racist violence dominates headlines and international conversations, Blais’s unique depiction of these bigotries is more important than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED LITERARY ICON:\u003c\/strong\u003e Over the course of her sixty-year career, Marie-Claire Blais has established herself as one of the most accomplished writers and a literary icon in multiple languages. She has garnered numerous prestigious awards and honours, including the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson Prize, the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and she is frequently talked about as a possible winner of the Nobel Prize. 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We expect that this new voice in the series will be a boon to both her career and Blais’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA NOVEL AT THE HEART OF CONTEMPORARY ISSUES:\u003c\/strong\u003ePrevious novels in the series have dealt with vital topics like HIV\/AIDS, refugees, addiction, and nuclear apocalypse. In \u003cem\u003eSongs for Angel\u003c\/em\u003e, Blais takes on the incredibly timely topics of racism and terrrorism, told through the lens of a white supremacist planning a massacre based on the Charleston church shooting in 2015. As racist violence dominates headlines and international conversations, Blais’s unique depiction of these bigotries is more important than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSongs for Angel\u003c\/em\u003e is a daring aesthetic experiment and a powerful appeal to solidarity.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"The Walrus","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“A richly layered, emotionally resonant text, one that rewards readers who come to Blais’s work for the first time as well as those who have journeyed with her from the beginning.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Ninth in the Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel interrogates violence and hate and takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2021-07-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"Soifs Cycle","ShortDescription":"Ninth in the Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel interrogates violence and hate and takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Songs for Angel
Ninth in the Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel interrogates violence and hate and takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.
