Here Is Still Here

Where can one go when Here Is Still Here?

Raised in a family of post-war Jewish refugees in Canada, Isabel feels displaced from an early age. She's searching for love, purpose, and the true meaning of home. From Montreal to Jerusalem and back again, she navigates checkpoints and borders, home and exile, milestones and disappointment, love and loss.

Sivan Slapak's debut collection is an intimate and layered exploration of human connection and the complexities of identity. Told with compassion and wit, Here is Still Here is a poignant reminder that however far you may go, you remain yourself.

"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

Sivan Slapak lived in Jerusalem for twenty years before returning to Canada in 2013. Since then, 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 lives in Montreal, where she works in the arts and culture sector.

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