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From Canada's internationally acclaimed "Generation X laureate" (The New York Times) come four unforgettable stories told with icy clarity and great heart. This is a world in which fast food, banged-up cars and the grunge of modern adolescence barely camouflage the dark extremes of sex, fear and desire - and the longing for love.
"This is a fine book -- unflinching, moving and shockingly, bloodily funny. Eden Robinson offers a raw, muscular, urgent new voice: she writes from the heart, and the more of that, the better." -A.L. Kennedy
"Robinson is good, frighteningly good. She is a leader in the pack of young writers willing to take on the nasty underside of human experience, and she does it with unwavering nerve and startling humour. She'll make you laugh when you know you shouldn't.... She'll tickle and slap you with the same hand." -Gail Anderson-Dargatz
"A subtle, brutal, and compelling read." -Esther Freud
"Effectively anonymous, deadpan prose [that] assimilates the discovery that Canadians are as weird and violent as anyone else on the continent." -The New York Times Book Review
Eden Robinson is a 29-year-old First Nations woman who grew up in Haisla territory near Kitamaat, BC. Her second book, the novel Monkey Beach, was published in 1998 by Knopf Canada. Robinson now lives in North Vancouver.
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