The Bright Afters
$55.37
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
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.
The Bright Afters is a poetic container for the pain endured by the town and surrounding are…
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: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“Sadie McCarney’s The Bright Afters is a living, interactive text, one which we do not so much read as enter. A remarkable achievement.” — The Seaboard Review
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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