Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Places Like These
- Publisher
- Book*hug Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2023
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Literary, Family Life
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771668057
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $23.00
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Audio
- ISBN
- 9781771668873
- Publish Date
- Aug 2023
- List Price
- $29.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771668064
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assault survivor navigates her boyfriend's tricky family and her own confusing desires. A mother examines unresolved guilt while seeking her missing daughter in a city slum. A lover exploits his girlfriend's secrets for his own purposes. Whether in Ecuador or San Francisco, rural Ontario or northern Manitoba, the landscape in each of Carter's poignant short stories reflects each character's journey.
Psychologically complex and astute, Places Like These plumbs the vast range of human reactions to those things which make us human—love, grief, friendship, betrayal, and the intertwined yet contrasting longing for connection and independence.
About the author
Lauren Carter is the author of four books including the novels This Has Nothing to Do With You and Swarm and the poetry collections Following Sea and Lichen Bright. Her first novel, Swarm, was on CBC's list of 40 novels that could change Canada. In 2014, her short story "Rhubarb" won top place in the Prairie Fire fiction prize and appeared in the annual Best Canadian Stories (edited by John Metcalf). Her work has also been nominated for the Journey Prize and longlisted multiple times for the CBC Literary Prizes in both poetry and fiction while also earning multiple grants, including the Manitoba Arts Council Major Arts Award, given to Manitoba artists whose creative work shows "exceptional quality and accomplishment." She grew up in Blind River, ON, and has lived in the Greater Toronto Area and The Pas, MB. She currently resides in St. Andrews, MB.
Awards
- Nominated, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Editorial Reviews
“These are stories of sadness and longing, of wanting but not getting, but this—of course—is also life itself, and the collection is less bleak than it sounds, because these are stories of characters building a home and a finding a world within its realities, of finding love, spots of light, connection and meaning.” —Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This