Kasia Van Schaiks debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother and daughter wait out the end of a bad year in a Mexican hotel; a friendship is tested as forest fires demolish Charlottes town; a childhood friend disappears while travelling through Europe; and a girl on the beach examines the memories of dying jellyfish. The stories traverse the most intimate and transforming moments of female experience in a world threatened by ecological crisis. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2023.
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Weight: 340g
Dimensions: 133 x 229mm
Publication Date: 01 Oct 2022
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication City/Country: Canada
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781772126280
About Kasia Van Schaik
Kasia Van Schaik is a South African-Canadian writer teacher and literary critic living in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. She holds a PhD in Literature and teaches Creative Writing at McGill University. We Have Never Lived On Earth a linked story collection that explores what it means to come of age in the era of environmental collapse is her first book of fiction. It was shortlisted for the Concordia University First Book Prize and the ReLit prize. Kasia is the author of the poetry chapbook Sea Burial Laws According to Country. She received the Mona Adilman Prize for poetry related to ecological concerns the Peterson Memorial Fiction Prize the Quebec Federations Short Story Prize and has been shortlisted and longlisted for the CBC short story and nonfiction prize. Kasias writing has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry Anthology Electric Literature The Los Angeles Review of Books The Rumpus PRISM International and more.