Debut Essays or Short Stories
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: Debut Essays or Short Stories. Annotations from Kirkus, unless otherwise attributed.
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Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep
A collection of ghost stories in which the ghosts are imagined, metaphorical, and sometimes even real.
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Microjoys
Bighearted and hopeful. Unflinchingly honest and healing. A profound compendium of intimate, inspiring essays and thoughtful prompts that will keep you afloat in difficult times and sustain you in the everyday. (Publisher)
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Making Love With the Land
A collection of essays by a poet, novelist, and professor of international Indigenous studies at the University of Calgary.“Am I queer enough to be queer? Perhaps the answer is no. But also, perhaps the answer is yes.” So asks Whitehead, Oji-Cree/nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation.
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Happy Like This
Spanning a wide range of distinct perspectives, voices, styles, and settings, the ten shimmering stories in Happy Like This offer deeply felt, often humorous meditations on the complexity of choice and the ambiguity of happiness. (NoveList)
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