New ebooks From Canadian Indies

9781460405123_cover Enlarge Cover
0 of 5
0 ratings
rated!
rated!
list price: $10.99
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
category: Fiction
published: May 2015
ISBN:9781460405123
publisher: Freehand Books

Welcome to the Circus

by Rhonda Douglas

tagged: short stories (single author), literary
Description

Rhonda Douglas’s debut collection dazzles with its daring and dangerous prose. Welcome to the Circus, where every moment is a tight-rope act, precariously balancing on the edge of destruction. In these stories, a choir processes its collective grief at the loss of one of its members to cancer; a teenage boy marks himself with the poetry of John Donne; God explains the collapse of the cod fishery; Mata Hari stands trial; and two sisters try to reconcile their respective places in the family porn emporium business before everything blows up. 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 Welcome to the Circus highlight the acrobatic, courageous circus acts we all learn to perform.

About the Author

Rhonda Douglas is the award-winning author of Some Days I Think I Know Things: The Cassandra Poems (2008), and Welcome to the Circus: Stories (2015). She is a former Poetry Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine and completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Colombia. Originally from Newfoundland, she now lives in Ottawa, Canada, on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.

Editorial Reviews

"[Douglas's stories] bubble with originality and daring... an exhilarating read."


"Rhonda Douglas's Welcome to the Circus does what great short story collections do: just when you think you're safe, caught in the ebb and flow of strong narrative, the stories surprise you with a shift of the bare and the raw, each with those flashes of insight that are most akin to the spotlit reveal of nakedness. It has perhaps the best thing that you can say about any collection: they may be stories, but they read like truth. With a vast breadth of style, from Paleolithic romance to the spare desperate needs of a businesslike sex club, Welcome to the Circus delivers. This is a collection worth waiting for, and worth thinking about."

— Russell Wangersky

Buy the e-book:

X
Contacting facebook
Please wait...