Us, now : stories from the quilted collective.
Us, now : stories from the quilted collective.
Publication Date
:
2021
Publication Information
:
[St. John's : Breakwater Books,]
Physical Description
:
149 p.
Geographic Term
:
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Short stories.
Additional Contributors
:
Moore, Lisa, 1973-
Summary
:
Us, Now roves from Indonesia to the Middle East, Taiwan, Mexico, China, Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Pakistan, and points in between, converging in Newfoundland. These stories by racialized Newfoundlanders are by turns joyous, tender, hilarious, and heart-wrenching. They confront racism and celebrate the act of enduring. They are about settling and getting unsettled, about parents and their children, about language, about facing down the horrors of homophobia, about the joy of love, about lifelong relationships or the glee of a magnificent crush. Here social and domestic violence are countered with tenderness and the penetrating power of narrative. This is a book about distance and coming together, about what it means to be seen and understood, or--devastatingly--to be seen and judged, or to be invisible and misunderstood. What it means to belong. These are new writers and new visions of an in-the-present-moment Newfoundland, stories shaped by powerful voices, stories urgent, radical, and sparking with beauty.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781550818819
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Bay Roberts | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Bonavista | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Botwood | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Burgeo | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Burin | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Carbonear | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Carmanville | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Clarenville | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Conception Bay South | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Corner Brook | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Deer Lake | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Fogo Island | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Gambo | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Gander | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Glovertown | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Grand Bank | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Grand Falls-Windsor - Harmsworth | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Happy Valley - Goose Bay - Melville | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Harbour Breton | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Holyrood | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
L'Anse Au Loup | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Labrador City | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Lewisporte | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Mount Pearl - Ross King Memorial Public Library | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
New-Wes-Valley | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Old Perlican | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Pasadena | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Port aux Basques | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Rocky Harbour | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Springdale | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
St. Anthony | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Fic NL Ref - Cons Rm | Adult Fiction NL Reference - Conservation Room | FIC USN |
St. John's - Marjorie Mews | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
St. John's - Michael Donovan | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
St. Lawrence | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Stephenville - Kindale | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Torbay | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Twillingate | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |
Whitbourne | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC USN |