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The Big Books of 2015
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Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards, a finalist for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
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Winner of the Trillium Book Award, a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction
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Winner of the BMO Winterset Award, shortlisted for the John and Margaret Savage First Book Award, Atlantic Book Awards.
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Winner of the 2015 City of Victoria Book Prize
Pedal
Julia Hoop, a twenty-five-year-old counselling psych student, is working on her thesis, exploring an idea which makes her graduate supervisor squirm. She is conducting interview after interview with a group of women she affectionately calls the Molestas - women whose experience of childhood sexual abuse did not cause physical trauma. Julia is the expert, she claims, because she has the experience; her own father, Dirtbag, a furniture designer and failed poet, disappeared when she was eight leavi …
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A finalist for a 2015 Quebec Writers Federation Award
