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This collection will appeal to readers looking for honest depictions of family, and a changing natural and political environment—subjects which are particularly topical at this time.
Award winning author whose short stories appear frequently in such publications as Queen’s Quarterly and Fireweed.
Potential for interest from academic market as creative writing course textbook.
Booksellers familiar with Flood’s previous collections, including Red Girl Rat Boy and What Can You Do, will be anticipating this newest addition.
Cynthia Flood’s stories have won numerous awards, including The Journey Prize and a National Magazine Award, and have been widely anthologized. Her novel Making A Stone Of The Heart was nominated for the City of Vancouver Book Prize in 2002. She is the author of the acclaimed short story collections The Animals in Their Elements (1987), My Father Took A Cake To France (1992), and Red Girl Rat Boy (2013) which was shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes’ fiction award and long-listed for the Frank O’Connor award. She lives in Vancouver’s West End.