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Poetry Marching for Sindy
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CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781771339742
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Explore the poignant disappearance of Sindy Ruperhouse from the Abitibiwinni First Nation. Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau?s stirring poem expresses grief, longing, and hope for Sindy?s return while shedding light on the issue of gender-based violence and celebrating the resilience of women and community.
Zulaikha
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771339568
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
In the winter of 2007, Zulaikha is travelling from Amsterdam to Tehran when she is approached by Kia, a family acquaintance she hasn's seen for many years, who is on the same flight. Kia's father has passed away and she is flying home to attend his funeral. In a shocking twist, Zulaikha suspects that Kia may have had information about her missing brother, Hessam, and their mutual friend, Abbass, who was murdered before Hessam's disappearance during the Iran and Iraq War.
When the flight is suddenly cancelled, and Zulaikha is later taken into custody and questioned about her relationship with Kia by both the European and Iranian authorities, who ultimately confiscate her passport, a tense thriller unfolds revealing the impacts of war and the consequences for one young woman unknowingly caught in the crossfire of greed, power, and international politics.
This sweeping novel explores many timely topics including issues related to gender,...
Sigrene's Bargain with Odin
Price:
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781771339681
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Bargaining with Odin, the most powerful of the Norse gods, is a bad idea. This unique, epic poem explores little-known Norse mythology and pays special attention to form, sound, and imagery.
Privacy is a Foreign Word in Supino
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771339629
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Privacy is a Foreign Word in Supino features three women, who secretly want to be more than housewives and mothers, set against the backdrop of the traditional Italian village of Supino.
Lawrencia's Last Parang
A Memoir of Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771338097
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Lawrencia's Last Parang: A Memoir of Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada is a snapshot of the author's life after the passing of her grandmother Lawrencia, the woman who raised her. Written in the style of a patchwork quilt that takes the reader back and forth between past and present, she examines her grief from the perspective of a Canadian-born Black woman of Caribbean descent, and she begins to question her identity and what it means to be a Black Canadian in new ways. This means exploring her childhood in Trinidad and her adult life in Kingston, Ontario, a predominantly white city; her experience of raising a mixed-raced child; and the meaning of her interracial marriage.
Given love and protection by the grandmother who raised her, she belongs to Trinidad, but she was born in Canada. Thus, she occupies what she describes as a third space, needing both...
The Meadowlands
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771339360
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
In a near future dominated by institutions, technology, and government control, children are raised in state homes and have no concept of family, with the exception of Terran and his younger sister, Brooke. Together with their friends, Taylor and Simon, they often steal from the local market to subsidize their diet.
Running from the authorities after a raid goes wrong and looking for a place to hide, Terran is drawn to a vibrant green glow behind a crumbling city wall. It?s an archway with a small opening that has fallen away, like a window into a different worldthe world of the Beigfur. The Beigfur once shared the earth with humans, but now exist in a parallel universe where they have learned to live in harmony with nature.
Centuries before, the Beigfur used the last of their technology to place a glamour between the worlds to protect themselves from the destructive ways of...
Tucked Away
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339278
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
It seems like a dream gig when Daphne gets the job offerlive in Montreal's Underground City for a full year and blog about the experience. The flip side of the city has all the creature comforts. The year will fly by. Except there's a catch. To collect her whopping bonus for sticking it out till day 365, Daphne must agree never to set so much as a toe outside the territory of the Underground City, submitting to an ankle monitor to keep her honest. Even if the conditions are hardcore, she doesn't have much choice. Out of work, and sole provider for a grandmother whose bank account is on life support, Daphne signs on the dotted line. And that?s when her life goes into freefall.
Inspired by Daphne, her grandmother comes up with an underground plan of her own, sheltering a family of illegal refugees in her basement. Daphne's initial fury...
A Fall Afternoon in the Park
Short Stories
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339339
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
With its twenty short stories, A Fall Afternoon in the Park invites the reader deep into the interior worlds of Iranian women living in both Iran and Canada.
In "Rainy Day," a little girl longs for a doll with golden hair; in "Adopted Child," a successful business professional delays having a baby but then discovers a secret; an educated woman finds herself cleaning the home of a wealthy, illiterate woman to pay the bills in the story "Adam"; and, in the titular story, a family is divided (literally) when the mother loses her job and they must make difficult decisions about their future.
In these varied, compelling snapshots of family, friendship, culture, tradition, discrimination, class issues, and struggle, Mehri Yalfani offers glimpses into the challenges and joys of immigrants? and refugees? lived experiences in the Canadian diaspora.
A Hostage
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339247
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
When Charlotte is kidnapped panic is only held at bay by a sardonic Inner Voice, which alternately consoles and condemns. When the Middle Eastern dictator Kassem questions the writer about why she had killed him off in her last book A Hero, he triggers a surreal month of captivity. While Kassem appears determined to explain every warlike action, Charlotte attempts to instil humanity in the dictator. Inner Voice?s incredulity at such hubris provides much-needed comic relief in an increasingly tense situation, as the unbearable loneliness unleashes a storm of unexpected sexual fantasies and complex feelings.
When the promised release date comes and goes, Charlotte embarks on a hunger strike, which ultimately brings about a joyful reunion with her family. However, home quickly disintegrates into another form of confinement, as Charlotte discovers that Kassem had used her for his propaganda, streaming their interactions live online. Media interest drives the introverted writer inward;...
Fat Studies in Canada
(Re)Mapping the Field
Price:
CA$59.95
ISBN: 9781771339483
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field re-envisions what it means to be fat in the colonial project known as Canada, exploring the unique ways that fat studies theorists, academics, artists, and activists are troubling and thickening existing fat studies literature.
Weaving together academic articles and alternative forms of narration, including visual art and poetry, this edited collection captures multi-dimensional experiences of being fat in Canada. Together, the chapters explore the subject of fat oppression as it acts upon individuals and collectives, unpacking how fat bodies at various intersections of gender, sexuality, racialization, disability, neurodivergence, and other axes of embodiment have been understood, both historically and within contemporary Canada.
Taking a critical approach to dominant framings of fatness, particularly those linked to an "obesity epidemic," Fat Studies in Canada aims to interrogate and dismantle systemic fat oppression by (re)centering and (re)valuing fat voices and epistemologies. Ultimately, the volume introduces new ways of...
Broken Fiction
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339452
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Broken Fiction is a collection of short autofictional stories and poems that both offer solace and depict anguish at the collision of memory, loss, and grief. This kind of story-making negotiates a recognition and acceptance of hard truths without resorting to easy resolution.
The pieces in this volume are playful and fierce. The narrator's willingness to give attention to where love works or goes wrong, or to the moments when suffering cannot be veiled by a positive attitudeeven as the comic or absurd overwhelms the tragic and humiliatingtakes us to places that inhabit both memory and fiction. Photographs break the fiction and pull the reader into the inevitable forces of time and loss and death.
Broken Fiction invites readers to consider a way throughand sometimes aroundillness and love, pain and joy, and gives a droplet of hope in nature's comedy of errors and coincidence.
Circle Tour
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781771338936
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Circle Tour, Eva Tihanyi?s ninth poetry collection, seeks and celebrates beauty in the face of despondency. Its three sectionsOuter Circle, Inner Circle, Centredraw us in as we move from the "outside" world of politics, culture, and art to the "inside" world of relationships with family, friends, and lovers, to the "core" world of the self.
The book begins with a stark announcement of hope: "If you?re reading this, / you?re still here." It then moves to engagement with (among other things) the pandemic, feminism, and artists such as Marina Abramovic while reinforcing the healing power of Nature throughout our experiences with external, beyond-our-control circumstances. In the more personal second section, Tihanyi writes about loss through death; the continuing influence of her grandmother; the end of one love moving into a new, more profound love; the importance of friends, reminding us that "each day we must be / lucid with mutiny against...
Stations of the Crossed
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781771339421
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Finalist, 2023 Book of the Year Award; Finalist, 2023 SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski; Finalist, 2023 Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples? Writing Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards).
Recalling Easter church services she attended as a child, Carol Rose GoldenEagle draws on the ?stations of the cross,? the annual ritual of the priest presenting plaques depicting the stages of Christ?s persecution to his resurrection. Using these early teachings as a springboard for critical reflections, the poems in Stations of the Crossed look back but, more importantly, look forward to reclaim the gifts given by Creator within Indigenous culture.
Carol Rose GoldenEagle?s searing new poetry collection examines the dark legacy of the Residential School System, Church and government doctrine, and the ongoing impacts on Indigenous Peoples? lives across Turtle Island.
Such a Lovely Afternoon
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771338844
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Such a Lovely Afternoon is a dazzling debut collection from award-winning Yukon writer Patti Flather.
A feisty young tomboy grapples with gender roles with sometimes hilarious results, a refugee single dad struggles for dignity in his northern community, and a malfunctioning compost toilet and wacky neighbours upturn a woman?s island cabin life, among other tales.
Against vivid landscapes from Canada's West Coast to Hong Kong to the Yukon, Flather reveals poignant beauty, compassion and humour in everyday lives, with characters searching for identity and belonging, delving into their resilience and humanity.
Everything You Dream is Real
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339308
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Eleven years after a world war destroyed the consumer-driven, plastic-based existence of 2055, a new order of players jostles for power. Streaky electricity, ravaging drought, a scarcity of food, and deadly Monarch butterflies make for an increasingly desperate situation.
Worlds collide when both Mother and Sharps?s children are kidnapped by the unstable plastic surgeon Alpha Plus and taken to The Fountain of Youth compound. There?s flowing water and beautiful people and beautiful clothes and an incongruous convent where children wear smart uniforms and are tutored by nuns. Lovely, until they discover that a subterranean sex trade funds the compound and the man who leads it is mad. Can Mother, Sharps, and the others take down Alpha Plus and his army? Or will they too become pawns in his bid for world domination?
Hilarious and at the same time poignant, Everything You Dream Is Real is a fabulous, adventure-filled sequel to highly acclaimed...
Patterson House
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339391
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Alden Patterson, the last living member of a once-wealthy Toronto family, is haunted by the legacy of her grandfather, William Patterson, whose suicide taints the family name. She lives in the decaying Patterson House with Constance, a foundling, and John Hunt, an injured war veteran and the family?s former gardener. When Alden is reduced to taking in boarders, she thinks she has found a way to survive until the crash of 1929 leaves her truly desperate and one particular boarder threatens to destroy everything she thinks she wants
Poetry Marching for Sindy
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781771339742
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Zulaikha
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771339568
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
In the winter of 2007, Zulaikha is travelling from Amsterdam to Tehran when she is approached by Kia, a family acquaintance she hasn's seen for many years, who is on the same flight. Kia's father has passed away and she is flying home to attend his funeral. In a shocking twist, Zulaikha suspects that Kia may have had information about her missing brother, Hessam, and their mutual friend, Abbass, who was murdered before Hessam's disappearance during the Iran and Iraq War.
When the flight is suddenly cancelled, and Zulaikha is later taken into custody and questioned about her relationship with Kia by both the European and Iranian authorities, who ultimately confiscate her passport, a tense thriller unfolds revealing the impacts of war and the consequences for one young woman unknowingly caught in the crossfire of greed, power, and international politics.
This sweeping novel explores many timely topics including issues related to gender,...
Sigrene's Bargain with Odin
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781771339681
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Bargaining with Odin, the most powerful of the Norse gods, is a bad idea. This unique, epic poem explores little-known Norse mythology and pays special attention to form, sound, and imagery.
Privacy is a Foreign Word in Supino
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771339629
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Privacy is a Foreign Word in Supino features three women, who secretly want to be more than housewives and mothers, set against the backdrop of the traditional Italian village of Supino.
Lawrencia's Last Parang
A Memoir of Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771338097
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Lawrencia's Last Parang: A Memoir of Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada is a snapshot of the author's life after the passing of her grandmother Lawrencia, the woman who raised her. Written in the style of a patchwork quilt that takes the reader back and forth between past and present, she examines her grief from the perspective of a Canadian-born Black woman of Caribbean descent, and she begins to question her identity and what it means to be a Black Canadian in new ways. This means exploring her childhood in Trinidad and her adult life in Kingston, Ontario, a predominantly white city; her experience of raising a mixed-raced child; and the meaning of her interracial marriage.
Given love and protection by the grandmother who raised her, she belongs to Trinidad, but she was born in Canada. Thus, she occupies what she describes as a third space, needing both...
The Meadowlands
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771339360
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
In a near future dominated by institutions, technology, and government control, children are raised in state homes and have no concept of family, with the exception of Terran and his younger sister, Brooke. Together with their friends, Taylor and Simon, they often steal from the local market to subsidize their diet.
Running from the authorities after a raid goes wrong and looking for a place to hide, Terran is drawn to a vibrant green glow behind a crumbling city wall. It?s an archway with a small opening that has fallen away, like a window into a different worldthe world of the Beigfur. The Beigfur once shared the earth with humans, but now exist in a parallel universe where they have learned to live in harmony with nature.
Centuries before, the Beigfur used the last of their technology to place a glamour between the worlds to protect themselves from the destructive ways of...
Tucked Away
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339278
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
It seems like a dream gig when Daphne gets the job offerlive in Montreal's Underground City for a full year and blog about the experience. The flip side of the city has all the creature comforts. The year will fly by. Except there's a catch. To collect her whopping bonus for sticking it out till day 365, Daphne must agree never to set so much as a toe outside the territory of the Underground City, submitting to an ankle monitor to keep her honest. Even if the conditions are hardcore, she doesn't have much choice. Out of work, and sole provider for a grandmother whose bank account is on life support, Daphne signs on the dotted line. And that?s when her life goes into freefall.
Inspired by Daphne, her grandmother comes up with an underground plan of her own, sheltering a family of illegal refugees in her basement. Daphne's initial fury...
A Fall Afternoon in the Park
Short Stories
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339339
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
With its twenty short stories, A Fall Afternoon in the Park invites the reader deep into the interior worlds of Iranian women living in both Iran and Canada.
In "Rainy Day," a little girl longs for a doll with golden hair; in "Adopted Child," a successful business professional delays having a baby but then discovers a secret; an educated woman finds herself cleaning the home of a wealthy, illiterate woman to pay the bills in the story "Adam"; and, in the titular story, a family is divided (literally) when the mother loses her job and they must make difficult decisions about their future.
In these varied, compelling snapshots of family, friendship, culture, tradition, discrimination, class issues, and struggle, Mehri Yalfani offers glimpses into the challenges and joys of immigrants? and refugees? lived experiences in the Canadian diaspora.
A Hostage
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339247
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
When Charlotte is kidnapped panic is only held at bay by a sardonic Inner Voice, which alternately consoles and condemns. When the Middle Eastern dictator Kassem questions the writer about why she had killed him off in her last book A Hero, he triggers a surreal month of captivity. While Kassem appears determined to explain every warlike action, Charlotte attempts to instil humanity in the dictator. Inner Voice?s incredulity at such hubris provides much-needed comic relief in an increasingly tense situation, as the unbearable loneliness unleashes a storm of unexpected sexual fantasies and complex feelings.
When the promised release date comes and goes, Charlotte embarks on a hunger strike, which ultimately brings about a joyful reunion with her family. However, home quickly disintegrates into another form of confinement, as Charlotte discovers that Kassem had used her for his propaganda, streaming their interactions live online. Media interest drives the introverted writer inward;...
Fat Studies in Canada
(Re)Mapping the Field
CA$59.95
ISBN: 9781771339483
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field re-envisions what it means to be fat in the colonial project known as Canada, exploring the unique ways that fat studies theorists, academics, artists, and activists are troubling and thickening existing fat studies literature.
Weaving together academic articles and alternative forms of narration, including visual art and poetry, this edited collection captures multi-dimensional experiences of being fat in Canada. Together, the chapters explore the subject of fat oppression as it acts upon individuals and collectives, unpacking how fat bodies at various intersections of gender, sexuality, racialization, disability, neurodivergence, and other axes of embodiment have been understood, both historically and within contemporary Canada.
Taking a critical approach to dominant framings of fatness, particularly those linked to an "obesity epidemic," Fat Studies in Canada aims to interrogate and dismantle systemic fat oppression by (re)centering and (re)valuing fat voices and epistemologies. Ultimately, the volume introduces new ways of...
Broken Fiction
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339452
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Broken Fiction is a collection of short autofictional stories and poems that both offer solace and depict anguish at the collision of memory, loss, and grief. This kind of story-making negotiates a recognition and acceptance of hard truths without resorting to easy resolution.
The pieces in this volume are playful and fierce. The narrator's willingness to give attention to where love works or goes wrong, or to the moments when suffering cannot be veiled by a positive attitudeeven as the comic or absurd overwhelms the tragic and humiliatingtakes us to places that inhabit both memory and fiction. Photographs break the fiction and pull the reader into the inevitable forces of time and loss and death.
Broken Fiction invites readers to consider a way throughand sometimes aroundillness and love, pain and joy, and gives a droplet of hope in nature's comedy of errors and coincidence.
Circle Tour
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781771338936
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Circle Tour, Eva Tihanyi?s ninth poetry collection, seeks and celebrates beauty in the face of despondency. Its three sectionsOuter Circle, Inner Circle, Centredraw us in as we move from the "outside" world of politics, culture, and art to the "inside" world of relationships with family, friends, and lovers, to the "core" world of the self.
The book begins with a stark announcement of hope: "If you?re reading this, / you?re still here." It then moves to engagement with (among other things) the pandemic, feminism, and artists such as Marina Abramovic while reinforcing the healing power of Nature throughout our experiences with external, beyond-our-control circumstances. In the more personal second section, Tihanyi writes about loss through death; the continuing influence of her grandmother; the end of one love moving into a new, more profound love; the importance of friends, reminding us that "each day we must be / lucid with mutiny against...
Stations of the Crossed
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781771339421
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Finalist, 2023 Book of the Year Award; Finalist, 2023 SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski; Finalist, 2023 Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples? Writing Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards).
Recalling Easter church services she attended as a child, Carol Rose GoldenEagle draws on the ?stations of the cross,? the annual ritual of the priest presenting plaques depicting the stages of Christ?s persecution to his resurrection. Using these early teachings as a springboard for critical reflections, the poems in Stations of the Crossed look back but, more importantly, look forward to reclaim the gifts given by Creator within Indigenous culture.
Carol Rose GoldenEagle?s searing new poetry collection examines the dark legacy of the Residential School System, Church and government doctrine, and the ongoing impacts on Indigenous Peoples? lives across Turtle Island.
Such a Lovely Afternoon
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771338844
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Such a Lovely Afternoon is a dazzling debut collection from award-winning Yukon writer Patti Flather.
A feisty young tomboy grapples with gender roles with sometimes hilarious results, a refugee single dad struggles for dignity in his northern community, and a malfunctioning compost toilet and wacky neighbours upturn a woman?s island cabin life, among other tales.
Against vivid landscapes from Canada's West Coast to Hong Kong to the Yukon, Flather reveals poignant beauty, compassion and humour in everyday lives, with characters searching for identity and belonging, delving into their resilience and humanity.
Everything You Dream is Real
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339308
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Eleven years after a world war destroyed the consumer-driven, plastic-based existence of 2055, a new order of players jostles for power. Streaky electricity, ravaging drought, a scarcity of food, and deadly Monarch butterflies make for an increasingly desperate situation.
Worlds collide when both Mother and Sharps?s children are kidnapped by the unstable plastic surgeon Alpha Plus and taken to The Fountain of Youth compound. There?s flowing water and beautiful people and beautiful clothes and an incongruous convent where children wear smart uniforms and are tutored by nuns. Lovely, until they discover that a subterranean sex trade funds the compound and the man who leads it is mad. Can Mother, Sharps, and the others take down Alpha Plus and his army? Or will they too become pawns in his bid for world domination?
Hilarious and at the same time poignant, Everything You Dream Is Real is a fabulous, adventure-filled sequel to highly acclaimed...
Patterson House
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339391
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Alden Patterson, the last living member of a once-wealthy Toronto family, is haunted by the legacy of her grandfather, William Patterson, whose suicide taints the family name. She lives in the decaying Patterson House with Constance, a foundling, and John Hunt, an injured war veteran and the family?s former gardener. When Alden is reduced to taking in boarders, she thinks she has found a way to survive until the crash of 1929 leaves her truly desperate and one particular boarder threatens to destroy everything she thinks she wants