Always Brave, Sometimes Kind

von Katie Bickell

272 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

- Excellent novel by a very promising debut author who has a background as a daycare and family resource worker has made her very familiar with the topics in this book. - She is also currently writing her memoir, and a number of big publishing houses have already asked to see that manuscript.- She is the recipient of the 2017 Youth/Emerging Writer Award (Writers' Guild of Alberta), the 2015 Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story (Alberta Literary Awards), the 2014 Alberta Views Short Fiction Prize (Alberta Views Magazine), the 2011 Voices of Motherhood Creative Nonfiction Prize (Erika Ehm's YMCA), and the recipient of a Literary Grants from the Alberta Foundation of the ArtsThis novel is an ode to her province (Alberta), which she calls tragic and beautiful, and will no doubt get the attention of awards juries.- In this, a collection of linked short stories, that she has formed into a novel, a doctor negotiates a skeleton-staffed hospital in a time of government austerity, a business owner aims her contempt at foreign temporary workers, a cancer patient is guided through the last weeks of life during the Tragically Hip's Farewell tour, a hockey mom cracks under the pressure of perfectionism.- She has been published in the Tahoma Literary Review, with the editor of that publication saying, "She is the rare writer who exhibits both an outstanding mastery of craft and a deep commitment to social justice.

• Themen: Belletristik Zeitgenössische Lifestyle-Literatur
• ISBN: 9781927366912
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2020
• Größe: 213 x 137 mm
• Verlag: Heritage Group Distribution