Summary
A genre-bending, heartbreaking book-length lyric poem about a gay teenager’s stabbing in a rural town.
When a gay teenager is mercilessly stabbed in a high school bathroom in West Nowhere, Nova Scotia, the surrounding community is sent into a tailspin. While Colton fights for his life in a hospital room at West Nowhere General, everyone from a school janitor to the boy’s abusive stepfather overflows with emotion in the form of verse monologues, unburdening themselves of their feelings…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770418523 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770418520 |
| Author: | Sadie McCarney |
| Publisher: | ECW Press,Canada |
| Imprint: | ECW Press,Canada |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 66g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
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About The Author
Sadie McCarney
Sadie McCarney’s other books are Live Ones and Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking. Her work has also appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, The Walrus, Grain, Foglifter, The Malahat Review, and The Fiddlehead, among other publications. She lives in Cornwall, PEI.
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