Now I Shall Leave You To Your Fate
- Publisher
- Arbeiter Ring Publishing Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2025
- Category
- Literary
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781997544005
- Publish Date
- Sep 2025
- List Price
- $28.00
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Description
This quartet of novellas asks the question: What is the line separating madness from sanity? Is mental well-being determined by accepted understandings of success and failure, or is it the product of biological and environmental stressors? In Now I Shall Leave You to Your Fate, Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Liz Harmer, Sophie McCreesh, and Fawn Parker examine the struggles of psychological crisis. A woman is pushed to the brink after witnessing a suicide in a shopping mall, a writer returning home is confronted with memories of her hospitalization in a psychiatric ward, a maladjusted neurotic comes to terms with her presence on social media, and a social outcast agrees to spy on his roommate on behalf of her ex-lover.
About the authors
Jean Marc Ah-Sen is the author of Grand Menteur and In the Beggarly Style of Imitation. His writing has appeared in Literary Hub, Catapult, The Comics Journal, Maclean's, Hazlitt, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, and The Toronto Star. The National Post has hailed his writing as "an inventive escape from the conventional."
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Fawn Parker is a writer from Toronto currently based between Toronto and Montreal. She is the author of Looking Good and Having a Good Time (Metatron, 2015), Weak Spot (Anstruther, 2018), and Set-Point (ARP Books, 2019). Her story "Wunderhorse II" was the recipient of the Irving Layton Award for Fiction in 2017. A graduate of Concordia University's BA in English & Creative Writing, Fawn is a current MA candidate at the University of Toronto in the field of Creative Writing. She is co-founder of BAD NUDES Magazine and publisher at BAD Books.
Sophie McCreesh's first novel, Once More, With Feeling, was published in 2021. She lives in Toronto.
