Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Ken Gilmour
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Pat Johnston
, Barry Kazimer
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Agnes Marshall
, Katie Macalister
, Louise Walsh
, Jude Castillo
, Holly Elisabeth
, Marilyn Stanley
, Trish Bowering
, Beth Dekoker
, Tanya Blake
, Sandra Furlotte
, Sharon Forzley
, Anne Baldo
, Meghan Barton
, Randi Ann Doll
, Noelle Walsh
, Brittney Warren
, Nicole Maxwell
, Rita O'Sullivan
, Leila Grobel
, Dorothy Wong
, Lynn Andrews
, Linda Leitch
, Dorothy Wong
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Hana Iudin
, cassandra schiemann
, Carson Loveless
, Damen Rae
, Joseph Chirayil
, Alanna Virtue
, Malgosia Mikula
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joshua Lewis
, Lindsey Drake
, Allison Dube
, Andrea Pole
, Jennifer Falkner
, Tanis Anne
, Sebastian Schulman
, Stephen Pinder
, Russell Reitsema
, Janice Cournoyer
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, diana kirkwood
, Paris Semansky
, Cherryl Koylass
, Kim Cappellina
, Sarah Dalton
, Keltey Buchko
, Terra Patrick
, jane luce
, Wendy Burleson
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Margaret McKay
, Nicki D'Angelo
, Wayne Harrigan
, Christine Lion
, Joseph Schreiber
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Chantal Vulker
, Maria Mclean
, Joe Titone
, Melanie Solar
, Dietra Reid
, Rachel Edmonds
, Susan Grieshaber-Otto
, Wendy Houlden
, Emily Johansen
, Macy McCubbing
, Julie M.
, Chris Lantz
, Michelle Arsenault
, Kim Carswell
, Kym Marsh
, Kevin Smith
, Lisa Mallia
, Benita Hartwell
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Huguette Lemieux
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Heather Belliveau
, Deanna Radford
, Roland Schigas
, Janet Meisner
, Molly Campbell
, Heather More
, Catherine Westerberg
, Danielle MacKinlay
, Sara Conway
, Ching Ching Wu
, Karen Lowe
, Mark Gorman
, Andre Sobers
, Megan Low
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Janet Hosokawa
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Brad MULLER
, Ashley Stones
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Boe Waight
, Sandra Lackie
, jaynie jackson
, Paula Adam
, Mary Goldsmith
, Morgan Stewart
, Joe Mitchell
, Katie Kah
, toni velthuis
, Marija Dujic
, Peter Halasz
, Dru Edmiston
, Lucy DaSilva
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Lindsay Simmons
, Kim Rasberry
, Daniela Rowane Thapa
, Dot Mann
, Dian Anderson
, Gabrielle Veilleux
editor@49thShelf.com
What are the best ways to support political struggles that aren’t your own? What are the fundamental principles of a utopia during war? Can we transcend the societal values we inherit? Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim is a remarkably original, literary page-turner that explores such pressing questions of our time.
A depressed writer visits a war zone. He knows it’s a bad idea, but his curiosity and obsession that his tax dollars help to pay for foreign wars draw him there. Amid the fighting, he stumbles into a small strip of land that’s being reimagined as a grassroots, feminist, egalitarian utopia. As he learns about the principles of the collective, he moves between a fragile sense of self and the ethical considerations of writing about what he experiences but cannot truly fathom. Meanwhile, women in his life—from this reimagined society and elsewhere—underscore truths hidden in plain sight.
In these pages, real-world politics mingle with profoundly inventive fabulations. This is an anti-war novel unlike any other, an intricate study of our complicity in violent global systems and a celebration of the hope that underpins the resistance against them.
