The Journey Prize Stories 31- The Best of Canada's New Writers

✍ Scribed by Carleigh Baker; Catherine Hernandez; Joshua Whitehead

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 143 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0771050828

✦ Synopsis

For more than thirty years, this celebrated anthology has introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. With settings ranging from a Saskatchewan wheat field marked by crop circles to a dystopian metropolis where people are under constant surveillance, the twelve stories in this collection represent the year's best short fiction by some of our most exciting emerging voices.
An aspiring artist looking for inspiration in the "aliveness of the desert" gets less--and more--than she bargained for when she signs up for a residency at a roadside motel. After years of toiling to pay off a debt that has devastated his family, a young Chinese fisherman makes a magical catch that will change the course of his life. As a populist candidate stands poised to triumph at a political convention, his campaign strategist and childhood best friend reflects on the dark legacy of their relationship. A brutal assault on a Toronto taxi driver leads his friend on...