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Title Statement | The sleep of apples: stories / Ami Sands Brodoff. |
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Series | Inanna poetry and fiction series |
Author | Brodoff, Ami Sands |
Publication | ©2021Toronto, Ontario: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.,[2021] |
Extent of Item | 178 pages. |
ISBN | 9781771338813 (pbk.) 1771338814 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 4164576 |
General Notes | Short stories. |
Summary | Set in a gritty Montreal neighbourhood that's been slowly gentrifying over the last two decades, troubled teenagers and an experienced psychiatrist, a truck driver permanently scarred by a near-fatal accident and a recreation therapist struggle to build a community and make their lives--and their deaths--meaningful. Readers are witnesses as these indelible characters gain strength, insight and empathy through their struggles and suffering. They each bear the scars of trauma but possess the gift of resilience. Fierce, original and bracingly honest, these unforgettable stories speak to the author's Jewish heritage, her experience as a cancer survivor and as loving mother to a gay son and a transgender son. The stories dramatize that families are what we create, not necessarily those we are born into, illuminating how we all live imperfect lives: We love what we have and mourn what we've lost. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Resilience (Personality trait)--Fiction |
Death--Fiction | |
Suffering--Fiction | |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
By Location | Montréal (Québec)--Fiction |