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list price: $23.00
edition:Paperback
also available: Audiobook eBook
category: Fiction
published: Apr 2023
ISBN:9781771668057
publisher: Book*hug Press

Places Like These

by Lauren Carter

tagged: short stories (single author), literary, family life
Description

A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assault survivor navigates her boyfriend's tricky family and her own confusing desires. A mother examines unresolved guilt while seeking her missing daughter in a city slum. A lover exploits his girlfriend's secrets for his own purposes. Whether in Ecuador or San Francisco, rural Ontario or northern Manitoba, the landscape in each of Carter's poignant short stories reflects each character's journey.

Psychologically complex and astute, Places Like These plumbs the vast range of human reactions to those things which make us human—love, grief, friendship, betrayal, and the intertwined yet contrasting longing for connection and independence.

About the Author

Lauren Carter is the author of two novels, a collection of short stories, and two poetry collections. Her work has appeared in multiple journals and anthologies, including Best Canadian Stories, and won several awards, including the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Prairie Fire Literary Awards and the Room Magazine Poetry Contest. She grew up in Blind River, ON, and has lived in the Greater Toronto Area and The Pas, MB. She currently resides in St. Andrews, MB.

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