{"product_id":"coexistence-stories-billy-ray-belcourt-1","title":"Coexistence: Stories - Billy-Ray Belcourt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from one of contemporary literature's most boundless minds.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAcross the prairies and Canada's west coast, on reserves and university campuses, at literary festivals and existential crossroads, the characters in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoexistence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e are searching for connection. They're learning to live with and understand one another, to see beauty and terror side by side, and to accept that the past, present, and future can inhabit a single moment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn aging mother confides in her son about an intimate friendship from her distant girlhood. A middling poet is haunted by the cliche his life has become. A chorus of anonymous gay men dispense unvarnished truths about their sex lives. A man freshly released from prison finds that life on the outside has sinister strictures of its own. A PhD student dog-sits for his parents at what was once a lodging for nuns operating a residential school-a house where the spectre of Catholicism comes to feel eerily literal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBearing the compression, crystalline sentences, and emotional potency that have characterized his earlier books, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoexistence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a testament to Belcourt's mastery of and playfulness in any literary form. A vital addition to an already rich catalogue, this isa must-read collection and the work of an author at the height of his powers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBILLY-RAY BELCOURT (he\/him)\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer from the Driftpile Cree Nation. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003eA Minor Chorus, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize. His bestselling memoir, \u003ci\u003eA History of My Brief Body, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Governor General's Literary Award. He won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize forhis debut collection, \u003ci\u003eThis Wound Is a World,\u003c\/i\u003e which was also a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. A recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship and an Indspire Award, Belcourt is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Creative Writing at UBC.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":51398663995709,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/91VmPlCFBPL._SL1500.jpg?v=1771355630","url":"https:\/\/thebookarchive.ca\/products\/coexistence-stories-billy-ray-belcourt-1","provider":"The Book Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}