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We All Need to Eat, is a new collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolve around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver, chronicling her attempts to come to grips with herself, her family and her sexuality.
Set in different moments falling between Soma's childhood and her late thirties, each story-bold and varying in its approach to narrative-presents a sea change in Soma's life, from Soma becoming addicted to weightlifting...
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In Vancouver for Beginners, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood landmarks long gone and a developer who paces at the city's edge, shoring it up with aquariums.
In these poems, you will traverse a city lined with rivers, not streets. Memory traps and tourist traps reveal themselves, and the ocean glints, elusive, in the background....
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After suffering a personal tragedy, Mikey Bradshaw is forced to reassess his life choices. Instead of working in a job he hates to please his domineering father, he decides to leave the big city behind for a slower pace of life in the country, pursuing his dream of being an artist. While the little town of Cooper's Landing and the handsome local cop welcome him with open arms, Mikey soon discovers that life in the country may not be as peaceful as...
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Charlie Nolan hates Christmas. Mainly because Christmas for him means being trapped for four days with his parents and extended family along with their swirling vortex of lunacy and drama. Mum is going crazy trying to find the cake forks. Dad is building a Christmas light display that could potentially burn down the house. Grandma has a sexy young toy boy, and Uncle Jack is dressed as an elf. The Nolan house is a powder keg waiting to explode. When...
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An oil spill on the West Coast coincides with a loved one's death. An enigmatic young musician experiences the rise and fall of his career, as told through videos posted to YouTube. Sometimes romantic, sometimes elegiac, Alex Leslie's coastal stories take place in ocean inlets and city streets. Haunted as much by technology as by their own ghosts, Leslie's characters face the disappearance of sanity, love, and landscape. An electric, poetic debut....