Summary
‘a coming-of-age tale about the painful and wonderful experiences of motherhood… a compelling novel told in the most beautifully crafted way, and the frequent lapse into disjointed stream of consciousness renders the style close to that of Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. It is a wonderful rarity when a book leaves you so profoundly affected’ - We Love This Book
Juliet Friesen is ten years old when her family moves to Nicaragua. It is 1984, the height …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444792683 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444792687 |
| Author: | Carrie Snyder |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Two Roads |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 133mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
mature and powerful… Snyder maintains an engaging blog called Obscure CanLit Mama, but if there’s any justice she’ll soon have the option of dropping that first word - Montreal Gazette
well-crafted and imaginative… Snyder’s tone and style is vivid and compelling - Globe and Maila moving story, beautifully told - Quill & QuireFans of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Paul Theroux’s The Mosquito Coast will love this one - Chatelaineexcellent… Snyder has an uncanny ability to make the unfamiliar intensely knowable … [The Juliet Stories is] pitted with a surplus of lovely land mines of revelation, aha moments exploding into wonderful, sometimes profoundly sad, insights - Telegraph Journalsubtle and deft - National Post (Canada)Snyder is phenomenal here, crafting some of the most striking images and beautiful sentences that you will likely read all year. The Juliet Stories is not to be missed - Coasta stream of sensual imagery that grows more sophisticated with each page… The Juliet Stories highlights the lessons we learn in youth and with age, and the conflict between the freedom we value and the security we desperately need - Walrus MagazineAbout The Author
Carrie Snyder
Carrie Snyder is the author of two books of short fiction. Her second, The Juliet Stories, soon to be published by Two Roads, was a finalist for Canada’s Governor General’s Award and a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. Girl Runner, her debut novel, has been shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
Carrie lives in Waterloo, Ontario with her family and blogs as Obscure CanLit Mama.
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