Folklore books set in Canada (2)


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The Swan Suit by Katherine Fawcett EN

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Yearn for a life of celibacy? Why not try sealing each of your orifices one by one with silicon caulk from the hardware store until your randy husband gets the message and turns into a tree? This is a totally reasonable chain of events--if you're a character in one of Katherine Fawcett's dark, quirky stories. Blending banalities of everyday human dilemmas and routines with elements of fairy tales, magic, the macabre or the downright inventive, Fawcett's fiction is anything but predictable. One of the three little pigs launches a line of high-end, easy-to-prepare, wolf broth-based meals. The De... continue

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Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories and Songs by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson EN

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In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and coloni... continue