{"title":"Canadian Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"moral-disorder-margaret-atwood","title":"Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMargaret Atwood is acknowledged as one of the foremost writers of our time. In Moral Disorder she has created a series of interconnected stories that trace the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it--those of parents, of siblings, of children, of friends, of enemies, of teachers, and even of animals. As in a photograph album, time is measured in sharp, clearly observed moments. The '30s, the '40s, the '50s, the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, and the present --all are here. The settings vary: large cities, suburbs, farms, northern forests.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first story, \"The Bad News,\" is set in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. The narrative then switches time as the central character moves through childhood and adolescence in \"The Art of Cooking and Serving,\" \"The Headless Horseman,\" and \"My Last Duchess.\" We follow her into young adulthood in \"The Other Place\" and then through a complex relationship, traced in four of the stories: \"Monopoly,\" \"Moral Disorder,\" \"White Horse,\" and \"The Entities.\" The last two stories, \"The Labrador Fiasco\" and \"The Boys at the Lab,\" deal with the heartbreaking old age of parents but circle back again to childhood, to complete the cycle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy turns funny, lyrical, incisive, tragic, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwood's celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage. As the New York Times has said: \"The reader has the sense that Atwood has complete access to her people's emotional histories, complete understanding of their hearts and imaginations.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eused book - note discolouration on book jacket, reflected in reduced price\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"pagesFormat\"\u003e240 pages, Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"publicationInfo\"\u003eFirst published January 1, 2006\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brewberry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42660106928222,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/0585\/9678\/files\/moral.jpg?v=1776467954"},{"product_id":"a-complicated-kindness-miriam-toews","title":"A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews","description":"\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eIn this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity\u003cbr\u003e\"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing,\" Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Complicated Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village. Not the East Village in New York City where Nomi would prefer to live, but an oppressive town founded by Mennonites on the cold, flat plains of Manitoba, Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis darkly funny novel is the world according to the unforgettable Nomi, a bewildered and wry sixteen-year-old trapped in a town governed by fundamentalist religion and in the shattered remains of a family it destroyed. In Nomi's droll, refreshing voice, we're told the story of an eccentric, loving family that falls apart as each member lands on a collision course with the only community any of them have ever known. A work of fierce humor and tragedy by a writer who has taken the American market by storm, this searing, tender, comic testament to family love will break your heart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eUsed Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"pagesFormat\"\u003e256 pages, Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"publicationInfo\"\u003eFirst published September 30, 2004\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Brewberry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42683805204574,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/0585\/9678\/files\/ack.jpg?v=1776810412"},{"product_id":"heave-christy-ann-conlin","title":"Heave - Christy Ann Conlin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this wholly original novel, twenty one year old Seraphina Sullivan longs for a cosmopolitan world but she's trapped in traditional seaside Nova Scotia where the dramatic landscape and magnificent North Atlantic ocean shape her world as much as the traditional culture and rigidly gendered expectations. The novel begins with Seraphina fleeing her wedding and taking refuge in one of her father’s antique outhouses where she finally confronts the secrets and lies buried in her past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeraphina sweeps us into her exhilarating, poignant and often hilarious journey as she rebels and flees from rural Nova Scotia to London bars, to strip clubs on the docks, through mental hospital wards and rehab centres, back to pie factories, country roads, sweeping verandahs and row boats in serene Lupin Cove. Told with wry humour, Heave pulls us into the lives of obscure people and elevates the majesty of their struggles and triumphs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeraphina’s first person narrative is both propulsive and lyrical, shifting effortlessly between the present and past, evoking an array of off-beat characters. Serrie's best friends, Dearie and Elizabeth, are both dreamers living lives dictated by generations of expectation and oppression. Dearie, the anglicized Acadian who wants to go to New Orleans to find her Cajun relatives, Elizabeth, who, like Seraphina, fears adulthood with its scarcity of opportunity. There is Chester, who Seraphina meets in a psychiatric hospital, a man who believes he is a lobster. Seraphina’s brother Percy, is a concert violinist who hides in music. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMartha, Seraphina’s bitter and exhausted mother, must come up with a scheme to make money to save the family from being homeless. She coerces Seraphina into a complicated scheme which ends in disaster. Seraphina’s growing despair and sense of disillusionment spiral her towards a climax that is at once unexpected and yet inevitable. Heave explores what one generation inherits from the next and bursts with relentless hope for the sweet losers who need it most of all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eused book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"pagesFormat\"\u003e336 pages, Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"publicationInfo\"\u003eFirst published January 8, 2002\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brewberry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42694405390430,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/0585\/9678\/files\/heave.jpg?v=1777150312"},{"product_id":"butterfly-lovers-charles-foran","title":"Butterfly Lovers - Charles Foran","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDavid, a divorced man coming to terms with his epilepsy, his uncaring mother, and the deterioration of his AIDS-stricken best friend, abandons his unfulfilling life in Montreal to teach English in post-Tiananmen Square Beijing. (Nancy Pearl)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eused book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"pagesFormat\"\u003e308 pages, Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"publicationInfo\"\u003eFirst published May 15, 2012\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brewberry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42694407585886,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/0585\/9678\/files\/butterfly.jpg?v=1777150718"},{"product_id":"the-bittlemores-jann-arden","title":"The Bittlemores - Jann Arden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwriter, member of Canada's Music Hall of Fame and star of her own hit TV sitcom. A little bit All Creatures Great and Small , a little bit Fargo and all Jann Arden!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn mean Harp Bittlemore’s blighted farm, hidden away in the Backhills, nothing has gone right for a very long time. Crops don’t grow, the pigs and chickens stay skinny and the three aged dairy cows, Berle, Crilla and Dally, are so desperate they are plotting an escape. The one thing holding them back is the thought of abandoning young Willa, the single bright point in their life since her older sister, Margaret, ran away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut Willa Bittlemore, just turning 14, is planning her own rebellion. Something doesn’t add up in the story she’s been told about her missing sister, and she's beginning to question if her horrible parents are even her parents at all. Just as things are really coming to a head, a bright young police officer starts investigating a cold case involving a baby stolen from a little rural hospital 28 years earlier, and Willa and the cows find out exactly how far the Bittlemores will go to protect a festering secret.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten with Jann’s trademark outrageous humour and full of her down-to-earth wisdom, The Bittlemores is a rural fairytale, a coming-of-age story and a prairie mystery all-in-one, saturated with her observations of the world she grew up in and her deep connection to the animals we exploit. This marvel of a first novel digs into how people come to be so cruel, but it also glories in the miracle of human kindness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eused book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"pagesFormat\"\u003e384 pages, Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-testid=\"publicationInfo\"\u003eFirst published November 7, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brewberry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696312029278,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/0585\/9678\/files\/bittle.jpg?v=1777230046"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.brewberrybooks.ca\/collections\/canadian-fiction.oembed","provider":"Brewberry Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}