✍ Scribed by Mayr, Suzette
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Shortlisted for the 2012 Furro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2012 W.O. Mitchell Award for Best Calgary Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2012 Georges Bugnet Award for Alberta Fiction
Longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Praise for Suzette Mayr:
"Venous Hum never fails to impress. Brash, macabre, and irreverent, it's the kind of story you want to hear from a latter-day Scheherazade: so intoxicating you crave more."--Vancouver Sun
A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him.
His parents are devastated. His secret boyfriend's girlfriend is relieved. His unicorn- and virginity-obsessed classmate, Faraday, is shattered; she wishes she had made friends with him that time she sold him an Iced Cappuccino at Tim Hortons. His English teacher, mid-divorce and mid-menopause, wishes...
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