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arsenal pulp press WINTER 2021
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Little Fish is the stunning debut novel
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casey
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by the author of the Lambda Literary “You’re gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine”
Whitehead
Award-winning story collection is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer and NDN glitter princess,
repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling debut novel by Joshua Whitehead.
Joshua
A Safe Girl to Love.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM
Off the rez and trying to find ways to live, love, and survive in the big city, Jonny has one
It’s the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy week before he must return to his home—and his former life—to attend the funeral of his
Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her stepfather. The seven days that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex,
life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away kinship, ambition, and heartbreaking recollections of his beloved kokum (grandmother).
Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a Jonny’s life is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages—and as he goes through the
distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy’s motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life.
Little Fish
Opa (grandfather)—a devout Mennonite farmer—
JONNY APPLESEED
Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams.
might have been transgender himself. At first she
dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy’s life grows
increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the
lost pieces of her Opa’s truth. Can Wendy unravel the
mystery of her grandfather’s world and reckon with “Joshua Whitehead redefines what queer Indigenous writing can be in his powerful debut
novel. Jonny Appleseed transcends genres of writing to blend the sacred and the sexual into
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the culture that both shaped and rejected her? She’s
determined to try. a vital expression of Indigenous desire and love. Reading it is a coming home to bodies,
stories, and experiences of queer Indigenous life that has never been so richly and honestly
Alternately warm-hearted and dark-spirited, shown before. This book is an honour song to every queer NDN body who has ever lived
desperate and mirthful, Little Fish explores the and it will transform the universe with its beauty and magic.”
winter of discontent in the life of one transgender —Gwen Benaway, author of Passage
woman as her past and future become irrevocably
entwined. “If we’re lucky, we’ll find one or two books in a lifetime that change the language of story,
that manage to illuminate new curves in the flat vessels of old letters and words. This is one
“I have never felt as seen, understood, or spoken to of those books. Jonny Appleseed gifts us with clarity in the shape of sharp, and medicine in
as I did when I read Little Fish. Never before in my the guise of soft—and a sexy, powerful, broken, beautiful hero who has enough capacity in
life. Casey remains one of THE authors to read if you
the dent of a clavicle to hold all the tears of his family.”
want to understand the interior lives of trans women
in this century.” —Meredith Russo,
—Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves
author of If I Was Your Girl
“Jonny Appleseed is the most beautiful quill and bead work that I’ve felt since discovering
“There is a dark place most novels don’t touch. Chrystos and Gregory Scofield. I’m in awe, Jonny. I’m grateful, Joshua. I’m astounded at
If you’ve ever been there, maybe you know how everything you’ve gathered here for us to honour and blush about and witness. You are my
exhilarating it can be to read a book like this, a new hero. Don’t you ever stop writing and sharing. Mahsi cho for your beauty.”
book that captures the darkness so honestly, so —Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed
accurately, that you can finally begin to let it go.
Fearless and messy and oozing with love, Little Fish “Jonny Appleseed weaponizes story to bring the rez (and urban rez) to life, shrouding its
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is a devastating book that I don’t ever want to be characters in luminous layers so they’re neither good nor bad but immersed in worlds and
without.” —Zoey Leigh Peterson, words. Unflinching and intimate, Joshua Whitehead takes his readers on a journey to the
author of Next Year, For Sure heart of an NDN glitter princess with generous, swooning prose. Unforgettable.”
—Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster
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lindsay wong THE WOO-WOO
Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother
who was deeply afraid of the “woo-woo”—Chinese ghosts who visit in times of personal
turmoil. When Lindsay was six, she and her mother avoided the dead people haunting
their house by hiding out in a mall food court, and on a camping trip, Lindsay’s mother
tried to rid her daughter of demons by lighting her foot on fire.
The eccentricities take a dark turn when her aunt holds the city hostage for eight hours
threatening to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay starts to experience symptoms of
the woo-woo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family.
At once a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience and a
harrowing and honest depiction of mental illness, The Woo-Woo is a gut-wrenching
and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself.
“The Woo-Woo will break your heart, then bind it back together.
With luxurious prose, dark humour, and a sharp yet tender gaze,
Lindsay Wong gives us an unforgettable memoir.”
—Lily Brooks-Dalton, author of Motorcycles I’ve Loved
and Good Morning, Midnight
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“Lindsay Wong’s The Woo-Woo is a brave, funny, and heartbreaking new
memoir that takes on that mysticism so regularly sold to us as part of the Asian and
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—Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“Lindsay Wong is caustic, observant, relentless, and,
in my opinion, the future of Asian Canadian writing.”
―Kevin Chong, author of The Plague
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Catherine Hernandez
A GLOBE & MAIL AND NATIONAL POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighbourhood east of
Toronto; like many inner-city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty,
drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough the novel employs a multitude of voices
to tell the story of a tight-knit neighbourhood under fire, offering a raw yet empathetic
glimpse into a troubled community that locates its dignity in unexpected places: a
neighbourhood that refuses to be undone.
“Scarborough marks the arrival of a fierce new voice in Canadian fiction.
Hernandez has rendered one of the most vibrant portraits of
contemporary suburbia I’ve yet encountered.”
—Jordan Tannahill, Governor General’s Award-winning playwright
“It’s said that sometimes an author needs to write fiction in order to tell the most searing
truth, and Scarborough is perfect proof of that axiom. This is a beautifully rendered,
Scarborough
intimately populated landscape that honours and cherishes characters we usually only
see relegated to background scenery and pat, two-dimensional representations. It feels
at once foreign and familiar, soothing and challenging—the kind of storytelling that
touches our tenderest places;
the best kind of storytelling I know.”
—S. Bear Bergman, author of Butch Is a Noun
and The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
“Scarborough showcases a necessary shift from the singular voice novel to create space
for many voices to be heard—especially ones that are often forgotten. In her dexterous
debut, Catherine Hernandez powerfully centres the margins by interlacing narratives that
spotlight the beauty that thrives beyond the big city.”
—Vivek Shraya, author of even this page is white
and She of the Mountains
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Float like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea
NEW RELEASE
How I Quit Everything
ALEX WOOD
Toronto comedian Alex Wood’s wildly disarming
memoir on how he overcame his multiple
addictions.
As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to
over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood
was on track to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and drunk.
At the age of twenty-eight, feeling desperate in the face of addiction
and associated health problems (ulcers, pancreatitis)—which were
compounded by the deaths of loved ones and even worse undiag-
nosed issues—he decided to do something he’d actually been doing
all his life: fight.
Alex concocted a plan to quit not only alcohol and drugs but also
everything else that he felt was holding him back: cigarettes,
caffeine, red meat, dairy, sugar, social media, smartphones, porn,
credit cards, nail-biting, and gossip. His biggest weapons? A pair
of boxing gloves and plenty of peppermint tea. But as Alex soon
learned, people don’t change overnight, and sobriety isn’t a linear
journey; there’s heartbreak, relapses, and abuse along the way, but
there’s also love, support, and lots of laughter. In this memoir,
ALEX WOOD is a comedian, writer, and podcaster who has been featured on
Alex wants to prove that people really can change—or go on a NBC’s Today Show, Kevin Hart’s LOL, Vice, and SiriusXM Radio. His pod-
withdrawal-inspired murder spree, whichever comes first. cast How Alex Wood Quit Everything takes listeners on a journey through his
addictions and subsequent recovery. Float like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea is
With plenty of self-effacing wit and grace, Float like a Butterfly,
his first book.
Drink Mint Tea tears down the walls of shame surrounding addic-
tion, providing an honest and open portrait of the stakes involved OTHER ROBIN’S EGG BOOKS:
when one is willing to quit everything in order to survive.
Float like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea is the latest title to be
published under the Robin’s Egg Books imprint. Robin’s Egg Books
features some of the freshest, smartest, and above all, funniest
writing on a variety of culturally relevant subjects. Titles in the
imprint are curated and edited by comedian, playwright, and
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author Charles Demers.
isbn 978-1-55152-833-5 biography & memoir / humour / psychology
e-isbn 978-1-55152-834-2 bio026000 / hum003000 / psy038000
6 x 8 | 292 pp | paperback pub month: april (us: may)
$22.95 can / $18.95 usa
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Green Glass Ghosts
NEW RELEASE
RAE SPOON
ILLUSTRATED BY GEM HALL
From non-binary writer and musician Rae Spoon:
a rollicking yet introspective young adult
adventure about screwing up, finding yourself,
and forging a new life on your own.
At age nineteen, the queer narrator of Green Glass Ghosts steps off
a bus on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, a city where the
faceless condo towers of the wealthy loom over the streets of the east
side where folks are just trying to get by, set against the deceptively
beautiful backdrop of snow-capped mountains and sparkling ocean.
Armed with only their guitar and their voice, our hopeful hero
arrives on the West Coast fleeing a traumatic childhood. They’re
eager to build a better life among like-minded folks, and before they
know it, they’ve got a job, an apartment, openly non-binary friends,
and a new queer love. But their search for belonging and stability is
disrupted by excessive drinking, jealousy, and painful memories of
the past, distracting the protagonist from their ultimate goal of play-
ing live music and spurring them to an emotional crisis. If they can’t
learn to care for themselves, how will they ever find true connection
and community?
RAE SPOON is a non-binary musician, producer, and author from Treaty 7
(Calgary) living on Lekwungen territory (Victoria). Rae is the author of the The haunting black-and-white illustrations by Gem Hall conjure
Lambda Literary Award finalist First Spring Grass Fire (pg. 18) and
the moody, misty urban landscape and evoke that delicate, aching
co-author (with Ivan Coyote) of Gender Failure (pg. 18). Rae was awarded
moment between youth and adulthood when we are trying, and
a Dayne Ogilvie Prize Honour of Distinction by the Writers’ Trust of
often failing, to become the person we dream ourselves to be.
Canada. They are the subject of a National Film Board documentary
entitled My Prairie Home (2013), which screened at film festivals interna- Ages 14 and up.
tionally, including the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. They have released ten
albums, for which they have been nominated for two Polaris Prizes and
a Western Canada Music award. They are the founder of Coax Records,
dedicated to work by marginalized musicians traditionally underrepresented
in the music industry.
raespoon.com
GEM HALL is a Vancouver-based artist and illustrator.
young adult fiction / lgbtq+ isbn 978-1-55152-838-0
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yaf032000 / fic073000 6 x 8 | 176 pp | paperback
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Travesía
NEW RELEASE
A Migrant Girl’s Cross-Border Journey
AS TOLD TO MICHELLE GERSTER
ILLUSTRATED BY FIONA DUNNETT
A poignant bilingual YA graphic memoir about a
teenage girl’s harrowing experience crossing
the Mexico-US border.
This compelling young adult graphic memoir tells the story of
Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who crosses the border into
America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better
life. Their treacherous journey is filled with both heartbreak and
hope. Will America be the country of dreams like they imagined?
Or will adjusting to their new life in California be another type of
struggle for Gricelda and her family?
With captivating illustrations inspired by the graffiti and stencil
art prevalent during the 2006 political uprising in Oaxaca, as well
as local textiles and embroidery, Travesía is Gricelda’s first-person
account, derived from interviews with author Michelle Gerster and
told in both English and Spanish. Timely and relevant, Travesía is a
vibrant and powerful testament to the desperation and resilience of
millions of migrating people who endure the pain of leaving their
old lives behind to embark on the perilous journey across borders
in search of a new life.
Royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to Centro Legal
de la Raza, a legal services agency protecting and advancing the
MICHELLE GERSTER is an American photojournalist, videographer, and ESL
rights of low-income, immigrant, Black, and Latinx communities educator based in Oakland, California, after living in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her
through bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy. work focuses on social justice in relation to immigration and deportation.
Her photojournalism on deportation from the US to Mexico received the
Ages 12 and up.
PROOF Emerging Photojournalist Award honourable mention. Travesía is
Full-colour throughout. her first book.
FIONA DUNNETT is a Canadian illustrator based in North Vancouver,
British Columbia. She trained as a visual artist and illustrator in BC and
drew inspiration from living and working in Oaxaca, Mexico. She has done
group and solo exhibitions around Mexico and BC, as well as illustration
work for the City of Vancouver, the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators
of BC, and the Vancouver Mural Festival. Her illustrations have been pub-
lished in Geist and SAD Mag. Travesía is her first book.
fionadunnett.com
isbn 978-1-55152-836-6 young adult non-fiction / comics & graphic
e-isbn 978-1-55152-837-3 non-fiction
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The Street Belongs to Us
NEW RELEASE
KARLEEN PENDLETON JIMÉNEZ
ILLUSTRATED BY GABRIELA GODOY
A sweet middle-grade chapter book about two
best friends who transform their torn-up street
into a world where imaginations can run wild.
In 1984 Los Angeles, Alex is a tomboy who would rather wear her
hair short and her older brother’s hand-me-downs, and Wolf is a
troubled kid who’s been wearing the same soldier’s uniform ever
since his mom died. They set their worries aside when their street
is torn up by construction machines and transformed into a muddy
wonderland with endless possibilities. To pass the hot summer days,
the two best friends seize the opportunity to launch a gleeful street
war against the rival neighbourhood kids.
But when Alex and Wolf make their headquarters inside a deep
trench, Alex’s grandmother warns them that some buried things
want to be found and some want to stay hidden. Although she has
the wisdom of someone who has survived the Mexican Revolution,
the Spanish Flu, and immigration to a new country, the kids ignore
her warning, unearthing more than they bargained for.
The exuberant and expressive black-and-white line drawings by
KARLEEN PENDLETON JIMÉNEZ is the author of Lambda Literary Award Gabriela Godoy perfectly capture the summers of youth, when
finalists Are You a Boy or a Girl? and How to Get a Girl Pregnant; Tomboys anything feels possible and an adventure is always around the
and Other Gender Heroes; and numerous short stories and essays. She wrote corner. Bursting with life and feeling, both the people and the land
the award-winning animated film Tomboy and has been recognized by the come alive in a tale interwoven with Mexican-American identity,
American Library Association and the Vice Versa Awards for Excellence in
experience, and history.
the Gay and Lesbian Press. She teaches education, gender, and social justice
at Trent University. Raised in Los Angeles, she lives in Toronto with her The Street Belongs to Us is a story of family, friendship, and uncondi-
partner and daughter. tional acceptance, even when it breaks your heart.
GABRIELA GODOY is an accomplished storyboard artist and illustrator
Ages 8 to 12.
living in Toronto. For the past twenty-five years, Gabi has worked with some
of the best studios in Canada and Australia, including Corus Entertainment,
Elliot Animation, Guru Studio, and Sticky Pictures. She considers herself
extremely lucky to be able to combine her love of doodling with a natural
ability to convey feelings using effortless lines to create memorable stories
through animated illustration.
juvenile fiction (ages 8–12) / lgbtq+ isbn 978-1-55152-840-3
juv011030 / juv060000 / juv039140 / juv039120 e-isbn 978-1-55152-841-0
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How to Fail as a Popstar
NEW RELEASE
A Play
VIVEK SHRAYA
The first play by multimedia artist Vivek Shraya,
about fame and personal transformation.
Described as “cultural rocket fuel” by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is
a multimedia artist whose art, music, novels, poetry, and children’s
books explore the beauty and power of personal and cultural
transformation.
How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek’s debut theatrical work, a one-
person show that chronicles with beguiling humour and insight her
journey from singing in shopping malls to “not quite” pop music
superstardom. A reflection on the power of pop culture, dreams,
disappointments, and self-determination, this astonishing work
is a raw, honest, and hopeful depiction of the search to find one’s
authentic voice.
The book includes colour photographs from the show’s 2020 pro-
duction in Toronto and a foreword by its director, Brendan Healy.
VIVEK SHRAYA is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of
music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film. Her books include I’m Afraid of
Men, The Subtweet, even this page is white (pg. 24), and The Boy & the Bindi
(pg. 26), and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra, Part-Time Woman,
was nominated for a Polaris Music Prize. She is one half of the music duo
Too Attached and the founder of the Arsenal Pulp Press imprint VS. Books.
Photos: Dahlia Katz A six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Vivek was a Pride Toronto Grand
Marshal, was featured on the Globe and Mail’s Best Dressed list, and has
received honours from the Writers’ Trust of Canada and the Publishing Tri-
angle. She is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation and
an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Calgary.
vivekshraya.com
BRENDAN HEALY (FOREWORD) is a theatre director whose credits include
the premiere production of Vivek Shraya’s How to Fail as a Popstar at
Canadian Stage in Toronto in 2020. He is a regular instructor at the National
Theatre School of Canada.
isbn 978-1-55152-842-7 drama / lgbtq+
e-isbn 978-1-55152-843-4 dra017000 / dra013000 /
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Iron Goddess of Mercy
NEW RELEASE
A Poem
LARISSA LAI
From Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai:
a long poem full of rage, love, and despair seek-
ing justice, seeking roots, seeking a “po-ethics”
by which to live.
Larissa Lai’s Iron Goddess of Mercy is a long poem that captures the
vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dances
with them through the horror of the long now. Inspired by the
tumultuous history of Hong Kong, from the Japanese and British
occupations to the ongoing pro-democracy protests, the poem inter-
rogates the complicated notion of identity, offering a prism through
which the term “Asian” can be understood to make sense (or non-
sense) of a complex set of relations. The self crystallizes in moments
of solidity, only to dissolve and whirl away again. The poet is a
windsock, catching all the affect that blows at her and ballooning to
fullness, only to empty again when the wind changes direction. Iron
Goddess of Mercy is a game of mah-jong played deep into the night,
an endless gamble.
Presented in sixty-four fragments to honour the sixty-four hexagrams
LARISSA LAI is the author of two previous poetry books, Sybil Unrest (with of the I Ching, Iron Goddess of Mercy also borrows from haibun, a
Rita Wong) and Automaton Biographies (pg. 24), and the chapbook Eggs in traditional Japanese form of travel writing in which each diary entry
the Basement (shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award). Winner of the closes with a haiku. The poem dizzies, turns on itself. It rants, it
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize and an Astraea Liter- curses, it writes love letters, but as the Iron Goddess is ever changing,
ary Award, she is also the author of three novels, Salt Fish Girl, When Fox Is so is the object of her address: a maenad, Kool-Aid, Chiang Kai-shek,
a Thousand (pg. 16), and most recently, The Tiger Flu (pg. 15), which won a
the economy, a clown, freedom of speech, a brother, a bother, a
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, was named an Otherwise Hon-
typist, a monster, a machine, Iris Chang, Hannah Arendt, the Greek
or Book, and was shortlisted for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award.
warrior Achilles, or a deer caught in the headlights.
Larissa holds a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at the University
of Calgary, where she directs the Insurgent Architects’ House for Creative Finally, a balm to the poem’s devastating passion and fury, Iron
Writing.
Goddess of Mercy is also a type of oolong tea, a most fragrant
larissalai.com
infusion said to have been a gift from the compassionate bodhisattva
Guan Yin.
Summoning the ghosts of history and politics, Iron Goddess of Mercy
explores the complexities of identity through the lens of rage and
empowerment.
poetry / lgbtq+ isbn 978-1-55152-844-1
poe024000 / poe011000 / poe009010 / poe021000 e-isbn 978-1-55152-845-8
pub month: march (us: april) 6 x 8 | 176 pp | paperback
$19.95 can / $17.95 usa
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nedí nezųų (Good Medicine)
NEW RELEASE
Poems
TENILLE K. CAMPBELL
A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest
take on sex and romance in NDN Country.
nedí nezų (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being
a sensual Indigenous woman creates—not only as a partner, a
fantasy, a heartbreak waiting to happen but also as an auntie, a role
model, a voice that connects to others walking the same path. From
the online hookup world of DMs, double taps, and secret texts to
earth-shakingly erotic encounters under the northern stars to the
ever-complicated relationship Indigenous women have with
mainstream society, this poetry collection doesn’t shy away from
depicting the gorgeous diversity in decolonized desire. Instead,
Campbell creates the most intimate of spaces, where the tea is
hot and a seat is waiting at the kitchen table, surrounded by the
tantalizing laughter of aunties telling stories.
These wise, jubilant poems chronicle many failed attempts at romance,
with the wry humour needed to not take these heartbreaks person-
ally, and the growth that comes from sitting in the silence of living
a solo life in a world that insists everyone should be partnered up.
With a knowing smile, this book side-eyes the political existence
TENILLE K. CAMPBELL is a Dene/Métis author and photographer from
and celebrates the lived experience of an Indigenous woman falling English River First Nation in Treaty 10, northern Saskatchewan. Her
in love and lust with those around her—but, most importantly, acclaimed poetry collection #IndianLovesPoems (Signature Editions) was
with herself. shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award. Campbell is the force behind
sweetmoon photography, which specializes in capturing NDN joy in its
nedí nezų is a smart, sensual, and scandalous collection dripping many forms. She is also the co-creator and a blogger at tea&bannock, an
in Indigenous culture yet irresistible to anyone in thrall to the online collective for Indigenous women photographers and artists to share
magnificent disaster that is dating, sex, and relationships. their stories. Campbell completed her MFA in creative writing at the
University of British Columbia and is working on a doctoral degree in
English Literature at the University of Saskatchewan.
tenillecampbell.com
isbn 978-1-55152-846-5 poetry / indigenous literature
e-isbn 978-1-55152-847-2 poe011010 / poe011000 / poe024000 / poe015000
6 x 8 | 92 pp | paperback pub month: march (us: april)
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winter 2021 9Our Work Is Everywhere
NEW RELEASE
An Illustrated Oral History of Queer &
Trans Resistance
SYAN ROSE
FOREWORD BY LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA
A visually stunning collection of illustrated
narratives on queer and trans resistance.
Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and
trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have
historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and
surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator
Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse,
amorphous, messy, real, and imagined queer and trans communities.
In their own words, queer and trans organizers, artists, healers,
comrades, and leaders speak honestly and authentically about
their own experiences with power, love, pain, and magic to create
a textured and nuanced portrait of queer and trans realities in
America. The many themes include Black femme mental health,
Pacific Islander authorship, fat queer performance art, disability and
health care practice, sex worker activism, and much more, including
a three-part piece on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on
Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities. Accompanying the
narratives are Rose’s startling and sinuous images that bring these
SYAN ROSE is an illustrator and comic artist whose work plays with both leaders’ words to visual life.
surrealist and representational imagery to approach topics of personal
Our Work Is Everywhere is a graphic non-fiction book that under-
history, politics, accountability, and healing. She has been published in
scores the brilliance and passion of queer and trans resistance.
Bitch, Slate, Gay Magazine, Truthout, and Autostraddle, and has self-
produced many comics and zines. She lives in New York. Includes a foreword by Lambda Literary Award–winning author
syanrose.com
and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of the
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA (FOREWORD) is a queer bestseller Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.
disabled femme writer and performer of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and
Irish/Roma ascent. Her most recent titles are the non-fiction book Care
Full-colour throughout.
Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (pg. 21) and the poetry book Tonguebreaker
(pg. 25). She is also co-editor of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from
the Transformative Justice Movement. Her memoir Dirty River (pg. 18) was
a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Publishing Triangle Award.
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Home and Away
DARCY & RANDY SHORE
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HEIDI ANDERMACK & AMY LYNN BROWN AMRITA SONDHI
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share their inspired ideas for delicious appetizers, Ayurvedic traditions features over 200 healthy,
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LUZ CALVO & CATRIONA RUEDA ESQUIBEL ANDREW GEORGE JR.
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EMILY WIGHT and Rose Water
HABEEB SALLOUM ET AL.
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ANDREW GEORGE JR. WITH ROBERT GAIRNS NATASHA KYSSA
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AMRITA SONDHI SARAH SCHULMAN
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Ayurvedic traditions features over 200 healthy, hearted waitress looking for love in New York’s
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BARBARA-JO MCINTOSH JULIA LIN, ALLAN CHO & JIM WONG-CHU (EDS.)
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True to Your Roots Anatomy of a Girl Gang
CARLA KELLY ASHLEY LITTLE
Delicious plant-based recipes in which root Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winner; IMPAC Dublin
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CARLA KELLY MARC HERMAN LYNCH
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beach. the immigrant body. “A novel that is both socially
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EMILY WIGHT IVAN COYOTE
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Butter Honey Pig Bread
FRANCESCA EKWUYASI
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NICK COMILLA FRITZ PETERS
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SARAH SCHULMAN MICHAEL TURNER
Lambda Literary and Ferro-Grumley Award Epistolary novel that portrays a punk rock band
finalist: a novel that explores the parameters of reunited for one last shot at glory. Made into an
queer teen sexuality. acclaimed 1995 feature film directed by Bruce
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Crossings Hopeful Monsters
BETTY LAMBERT HIROMI GOTO
New edition of playwright Lambert’s only novel, In these stories, the “hopeful monsters” are
first published in 1979: a frank and unsettling women confounded by familial duty and the
portrayal of an intelligent woman in the 1960s ghosts of their past.
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Don’t Tell Me What to Do “You’re gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine”
Jonny Appleseed
Whitehead
is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer and NDN glitter princess,
DINA DEL BUCCHIA JOSHUA WHITEHEAD
repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling debut novel by Joshua Whitehead.
Joshua
Off the rez and trying to find ways to live, love, and survive in the big city, Jonny has one
week before he must return to his home—and his former life—to attend the funeral of his
stepfather. The seven days that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex,
kinship, ambition, and heartbreaking recollections of his beloved kokum (grandmother).
Funny, strange stories about imperfect people
Jonny’s life is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages—and as he goes through the
motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life.
Winner, Lambda Literary Award; finalist,
JONNY APPLESEED
Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams.
doing imperfect things. “An exhilerating fiction
“Joshua Whitehead redefines what queer Indigenous writing can be in his powerful debut
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a vital expression of Indigenous desire and love. Reading it is a coming home to bodies,
Governor General’s Literary Award; longlisted
debut.”—Publishers Weekly for the Scotiabank Giller Prize: a tour de force
stories, and experiences of queer Indigenous life that has never been so richly and honestly
shown before. This book is an honour song to every queer NDN body who has ever lived
and it will transform the universe with its beauty and magic.”
—Gwen Benaway, author of Passage
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the dent of a clavicle to hold all the tears of his family.”
—Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves
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new hero. Don’t you ever stop writing and sharing. Mahsi cho for your beauty.”
—Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed
“Jonny Appleseed weaponizes story to bring the rez (and urban rez) to life, shrouding its
characters in luminous layers so they’re neither good nor bad but immersed in worlds and
words. Unflinching and intimate, Joshua Whitehead takes his readers on a journey to the
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—Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster
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Little Fish
plett
casey
by the author of the Lambda Literary
Award-winning story collection
A Safe Girl to Love.
SARAH SCHULMAN It’s the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy
Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her
CASEY PLETT
life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away
Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a
In the netherworld of the Lower East Side, Winner, Amazon Canada First Novel Award and
distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy’s
Little Fish
Opa (grandfather)—a devout Mennonite farmer—
might have been transgender himself. At first she
dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy’s life grows
increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the
lost pieces of her Opa’s truth. Can Wendy unravel the
a female office temp and a male psychiatrist Lambda Literary Award: a transcendent novel
mystery of her grandfather’s world and reckon with
the culture that both shaped and rejected her? She’s
determined to try.
Alternately warm-hearted and dark-spirited,
befriend each other, two unlikely people drawn about a trans woman who learns her grandfather
desperate and mirthful, Little Fish explores the
winter of discontent in the life of one transgender
woman as her past and future become irrevocably
entwined.
“I have never felt as seen, understood, or spoken to
together by their confusion about and empathy may have been trans himself. “I have never felt
as I did when I read Little Fish. Never before in my
life. Casey remains one of THE authors to read if you
want to understand the interior lives of trans women
in this century.” —Meredith Russo,
author of If I Was Your Girl
for the world around them and each other. as seen, understood, or spoken to as I did when
“There is a dark place most novels don’t touch.
If you’ve ever been there, maybe you know how
exhilarating it can be to read a book like this, a
book that captures the darkness so honestly, so
accurately, that you can finally begin to let it go.
I read Little Fish.”—Meredith Russo
Fearless and messy and oozing with love, Little Fish
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Everything Is Awful and You’re Look Who’s Morphing
a Terrible Person TOM CHO
DANIEL ZOMPARELLI
A funny, fantastical story collection firmly
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist: in these grounded in pop culture that explores the nature
unconventional, interconnected stories, gay men look of identity—cultural, racial, sexual, gender, and
for love in any way possible: a deadpan, tragicomic otherwise.
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winter 2021 13The Mercy Journals The Plague
CLAUDIA CASPER KEVIN CHONG
Winner, Philip K. Dick Award for Science Fiction: A modern retelling of the Camus classic, fraught
an unsettling novel set thirty years in the future, with the political and cultural anxieties of our
about a former soldier nicknamed Mercy in the time. “A nuanced study of human nature under
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The Mere Future Property Values
SARAH SCHULMAN CHARLES DEMERS
Schulman’s acclaimed dystopian satire about A wild crime novel that sends up gang violence
urban mores is set in New York sometime in and exorbitant real estate prices. “Hysterical and
the future, when real estate is unattainable and highly moving.”—Sam Wiebe
everyone has a job in marketing. FICTION
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Mouthquake Rat Bohemia
DANIEL ALLEN COX SARAH SCHULMAN
A novel about a boy with a stutter, and the tangled A bold, achingly honest novel written from
barbs of repressed memory. Includes an afterword the epicentre of the AIDS crisis, set in the “rat
by Sarah Schulman. bohemia” of New York. Named one of the 100
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Niagara Motel Scarborough
Catherine Hernandez
A GLOBE & MAIL AND NATIONAL POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
ASHLEY LITTLE Scarborough
LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS
is a low-income, culturally diverse neighbourhood east of
CATHERINE HERNANDEZ
Toronto; like many inner-city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty,
drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough the novel employs a multitude of voices
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist: an eleven-
to tell the story of a tight-knit neighbourhood under fire, offering a raw yet empathetic
glimpse into a troubled community that locates its dignity in unexpected places: a
neighbourhood that refuses to be undone.
“Scarborough marks the arrival of a fierce new voice in Canadian fiction.
Hernandez has rendered one of the most vibrant portraits of
Trillium and Toronto Book Award finalist;
year-old boy goes on a cross-country journey to longlisted for Canada Reads: a poignant multi-
contemporary suburbia I’ve yet encountered.”
—Jordan Tannahill, Governor General’s Award-winning playwright
“It’s said that sometimes an author needs to write fiction in order to tell the most searing
truth, and Scarborough is perfect proof of that axiom. This is a beautifully rendered,
Scarborough
intimately populated landscape that honours and cherishes characters we usually only
find his father, the bartender Sam Malone. voiced novel about life in the inner city, locating
see relegated to background scenery and pat, two-dimensional representations. It feels
at once foreign and familiar, soothing and challenging—the kind of storytelling that
touches our tenderest places;
the best kind of storytelling I know.”
—S. Bear Bergman, author of Butch Is a Noun
and The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
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for many voices to be heard—especially ones that are often forgotten. In her dexterous
debut, Catherine Hernandez powerfully centres the margins by interlacing narratives that
spotlight the beauty that thrives beyond the big city.”
dignity in unexpected places.
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LYDIA KWA VIVEK SHRAYA
A novel set in seventh-century China featuring Lambda Literary Award finalist: an illustrated
ghosts and a transformative oracle bone. See also novel that weaves a passionate love story between
The Walking Boy (pg. 15). “A transfixing narrative a man and his body, with a reimagining of Hindu
with the grandeur of a historical epic.”—Doretta Lau mythology. See also even this page is white (pg. 24).
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The Outer Harbour Shut Up You’re Pretty
WAYDE COMPTON TÉA MUTONJI
Vancouver Book Award winner: stories about Trillium Book Award and Publishing Triangle
race, migration, and home centred around a new Award winner; Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction
volcanic island off the coast of Vancouver. See finalist: darkly humorous stories that probe
also The Blue Road (pg. 25). the intersections of identity, femininity, and
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MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE PAUL YEE
Lambda Literary Award finalist: an urgent novel Yee’s first novel for adults: a historical account
set in the mid-’90s featuring Alexa, a resilient of a Chinese man in nineteenth-century British
twenty-one-year-old queen who lives without Columbia on a journey to find the mother of his
rules or apologies. son.
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So Long Been Dreaming Tarry This Night
NALO HOPKINSON & UPPINDER MEHAN (EDS.) KRISTYN DUNNION
Anthology of post-colonial science fiction and A powerful dystopian novel set during a new
fantasy, featuring an introduction by Samuel R. American civil war, about a polygamist cult
Delany. leader and his rebellious would-be disciple, Ruth.
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Sodom Road Exit There Has to Be a Knife
AMBER DAWN ADNAN KHAN
Lambda Literary Award finalist: Amber Dawn’s Adnan Khan’s blistering debut novel investigates
second novel, at once a compelling family themes of race, class, masculinity, and
melodrama and a lesbian supernatural thriller. contemporary relationships. “Khan writes
See also My Art Is Killing Me (pg. 25) and Sub with a noir sensibility, equal parts violence and
Rosa (this page). tenderness.”—Globe and Mail
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Soucouyant The Tiger Flu
IN THIS BOLD, BEAUTIFUL,
DAVID CHARIANDY LARISSA LAI
and wildly imaginative new novel by Larissa
Lai, Kirilow is a doctor who lives in Grist
“After disease and environmental destruction reorder the world, Larissa
Village with a community of women who
Lai’s rebel clones and flu-ridden survivors inhabit a future both wildly
built their own society in exile after being
imaginative and shockingly cruel. Blending the surreal and the entirely
expelled by patriarchal Saltwater City
Governor General’s Award finalist; Giller Prize Lambda Literary Award winner: a stunning novel
possible, The Tiger Flu is majestically compelling. A must-read.”
because of a unique genetic mutation. Her
*—EDEN ROBINSON, AUTHOR OF SON OF A TRICKSTER*
lover is Peristrophe, a “starfish” woman who
can regrow her organs, an ability she uses to
“Larissa Lai’s imagination is both scintillating and dark, and somewhere
longlist: a Caribbean Canadian son pieces about a community of parthenogenic women
help the Grist sisters extend their lives when
in this intersection lies her genius. Orwell said that writing a dystopian
their own organs fail. When an outsider
novel, such as 1984, was like surviving a long illness. Reading The
from Saltwater City sick with the tiger flu
Tiger Flu—Lai’s 2145 and onward—is itself a fever dream, a shivering
infiltrates the village, Peristrophe falls ill
premonition, a familiar and strange future. This is the sort of fiction we
together the life of his mother, now suffering from under siege after the end of the world.
and dies, so the grieving Kirilow must travel
will all need to contract if we are to find a way to live on this side of the
to the city to find a new starfish. There, she
Photo: Monique de St. Croix
point of no return.”
meets Kora, a young woman desperate to
LARISSA LAI is the author of two *—WAYDE COMPTON, AUTHOR OF THE OUTER HARBOUR*
save her family from the epidemic. Kora has
dementia.
novels, When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt
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everything Kirilow is looking for, but before
Fish Girl; two poetry collections, sybil unrest “This novel is a dazzling singularity. Larissa Lai has conjured a future
the pair can join forces, they’re kidnapped
and Automaton Biographies; and a book of so darkly brilliant and believable, it feels like now, magnified. No other
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