BLUESPRINT
This anthology refracts the experience of thirty-two writers, emerging and established, who have been a part of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside community in some way. Their prose, poetry, and essays reappropriate the coding of the area and recase the DTES as a site of creative energy and human dignity.
A groundbreaking collection of stories, essays, and poems, both historical and contemporary, which document the black experience in British Columbia. Edited by the author of After Canaan (page 15), Performance Bond and 49th Parallel Psalm (both page 31). A treasure-trove … a valuable historical reference work that attempts to trace a cultural lineage for a population that has always been in flux. —Globe and Mail
vancouver book award finalist
literary anthologies
black studies / anthologies
isbn 978-1-55152-462-7 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-463-4
isbn 978-1-55152-118-3
$19.95 • $19.95 us
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THE REVEREND’S APPRENTICE
SOUCOUYANT
David N. Odhiambo
David Chariandy
third printing
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• finalist,
governor general’s literary award longlisted, scotiabank giller prize longlisted, impac dublin literary award A haunting coming-of-age story. —Publishers Weekly
fiction
fiction
isbn 978-1-55152-242-5 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-270-8
isbn 978-1-55152-226-5 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-376-7
$17.95 • $17.95 us
$19.95 • $18.95 us
WHEN FOX IS A THOUSAND
VENOUS HUM
Larissa Lai
Suzette Mayr A monstrously funny novel, Venous Hum charts the lives of Lai Fun Kugelheim and Stefanja Dumanowski, best friends who, upon hearing the news of an old high school acquaintance’s death, are gripped by an insatiable nostalgia and organize a twenty-year reunion. A satire on race, gender, sexual preference, and vegetarianism, this novel will throw your assumptions of the world and the people who inhabit it out the window.
A fox spirit comes to haunt a young woman living in Vancouver, bringing the history of another haunting, that of the T’ang Dynasty poet Yu Hsuan-Chi. One part history, one part fairytale, one part urban discontent, this delightful novel cracks open all preconceptions of Asian women, gender, sexuality, family, faith, and the flow of time. By the author of Automaton Biographies (page 31).
second printing
The Reverend’s Apprentice is that recognizable sort of hybird-genre novel, its technical sophistication within the lineage of David Foster Wallace, Laurence Sterne, and the Bible. … Here is an authentic and powerful writer channeling the anxieties, disjunctions, arrogances, and strivings of our time. —Rain Taxi
A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore. This extraordinary first novel focuses on a man who reconnects with his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia.
Jonah Ayot is a graduate student from a fictional central African nation, studying in a fictional American city some time after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Dissonant, frantic, and full of the white noise of a culture at war with itself, Odhiambo’s novel is both disturbing and breathtaking.
A particularly acute pleasure. —The Advocate Never fails to impress. Brash, macabre and irreverent. —Vancouver Sun fiction
fiction
isbn 978-1-55152-168-8 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-339-2
isbn 978-1-55152-170-1
$21.95 • $17.95 us
$21.95 • $16.95 us
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spring 2012 release
Black British Columbian Literature and Orature Wayde Compton (ed)
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Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside John Mikhail Asfour and Elee Kraljii Gardiner, editors