We Have Never Lived On Earth

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-77212-628-0
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 130 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Reihe: Robert Kroetsch Series

Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother and daughter wait out the end of a bad year in a Mexican hotel; a friendship is tested as forest fires demolish Charlotte’s town; a childhood friend disappears while travelling through Europe; and a girl on the beach examines the memories of dying jellyfish. The stories traverse the most intimate and transforming moments of female experience in a world threatened by ecological crisis. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2023.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Van Schaik, Kasia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

How Will You Prepare for Happiness?

- Premium Girl

- Highwayman

- House on Carbonate

- The Peninsula of Happiness

- A Girl in Nova Scotia

- A Girl Called Helsinki

- Swimming Upright

- How to Be Silent in German

- Notes on a Separation

- Visitor to Crete

- Houseboat

- Youth Orchestra

- Stingray

- Cellular Memory

- The Cascades

- This Is Fine

- We Have Never Lived on Earth

- An Ounce of Care

- Notes

- Acknowledgements

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Leseproben

“She rests her hand on my arm, her eyes clear and serious. We could be the same person, encountering each other in a fragment of time lived twice.”

Über Autor(innen)

Van Schaik, Kasia
Kasia Van Schaik is a South African-Canadian writer, teacher, and literary critic living in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. She holds a PhD in Literature and teaches Creative Writing at McGill University.

We Have Never Lived On Earth, a linked story collection that explores what it means to come of age in the era of environmental collapse, is her first book of fiction. It was shortlisted for the Concordia University First Book Prize and the ReLit prize.

Kasia is the author of the poetry chapbook Sea Burial Laws According to Country.

She received the Mona Adilman Prize for poetry related to ecological concerns, the Peterson Memorial Fiction Prize, the Quebec Federation’s Short Story Prize, and has been shortlisted and longlisted for the CBC short story and nonfiction prize. Kasia’s writing has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry Anthology, Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, PRISM International and more.