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“A woman learns to swim. A girl falls in love with her teacher. A man hires a humanoid nanny. A woman is abducted by her trash collector. A dying mother recycles time.” The interconnected stories in Alison Gadsby’s debut collection, Breathing is How Some People Stay Alive evoke an unsettling world that mirrors our own.
Originally from Malta, John P. Portelli is a writer of poetry and fiction, as well as a professor emeritus in the Department of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. His remarkable poetry collection, Here Was, navigates the tensions and contradictions between closeness and distance, past and present, what unites us and what separates us from each other.
Michelle Grierson is so many things— painter, dancer, educator, feminist, mother, and writer. Most recently, she is the author of Becoming Leidah, her stunning debut novel from Simon and Schuster.
