Here Is Still Here

“An exquisite foray into place, memory and Jewish identity. At once intimate and grand, Here Is Still Here is the type of book that soon feels like a friend? -Mireille Silcoff, author of Chez L’arabe “[These stories] speak to the delicate balance of anyone straddling (at least) two cultures, (at least) two languages, (at least) two ideas of “home,” and (at the very least) overlapping and intersecting particulars, details, and truths that make individuals both individual and part of a community.” -QWF Awards Jury

“Slapak’s prose is pensive and resonating, touching on truths about aging, family, friendship, and what makes a life, offering these to us through Isabel’s lens of traumatic history, self-doubt, and hope.” -Montreal Review of Books ?There is a simmering quality to Slapak’s work-issues percolating but not resolved. Emotions mentioned but not overly analysed, so their power is not dampened. One senses from Here is Still Here that life is a continuous search?for identity, love, belonging. One that has not ended.? -Ottawa Review of Books ?A collection of sure-footed short stories? -Montreal Guardian

Sivan Slapak is a Montreal-based writer. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in a range of Canadian literary journals and anthologies, and have won and been shortlisted for several awards. Her debut book, Here Is Still Here, was a finalist for the QWF Concordia University First Book Prize, and was one of 49th Shelf’s “2024 Books of the Year.” Sivan works in the arts and culture sector of the city.