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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
category: Fiction
published: May 2015
ISBN:9781554812288
publisher: Freehand Books

Welcome to the Circus

by Rhonda Douglas

tagged: short stories (single author), literary
Description

These ten strikingly original stories explore love and escape—how we escape to love, escape through love, and escape ourselves and hold on to love. Together, the stories of highlight the acrobatic, courageous circus acts we all learn to perform.

About the Author
Rhonda Douglas is the author of Some Days I Think I Know Things: The Cassandra Poems (Signature Editions, 2008) and the short fiction collection Welcome to the Circus (Freehand Books, 2015). She is a graduate of the UBC MFA in Creative Writing Program. You can find her online at shallicompare.com and on Twitter: @shallicompare. She splits her time between Ottawa and the Maple Leaf Lounge.
Awards
  • Short-listed, Ottawa Book Award

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