Open Season
Margo Beredjiklian
, Cheryl Johnson
, Brad MULLER
, Jude Castillo
, Sandra Furlotte
, Marilyn Stanley
, Noelle Walsh
, Alanna Virtue
, Dot Mann
, Andrea Pole
, Patricia Johnson
, Agnes Marshall
, Louise Walsh
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Natasha Andres
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Mary Montague
, Laurie Burns
, Sandra Lackie
, Mark Gorman
, Don Gershman
, Mary Therrien
, Taya Young
, Andre Labonte
, cassandra schiemann
, Joseph Chirayil
, Sarah Schwartz
, Charly Wreggitt
, Carol Brown
, Melissa Poremba
, Barry Kazimer
, toni velthuis
, Tanis Anne
, Beth Dekoker
, Ryan Woods
, Kevin Smith
, Joe Mitchell
, Brittney Warren
, Kim Cappellina
, Jeanette Burchaski
, zelda dwyer
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Linda MacIntyre
, Paula Ritchie
, Caroline Woodward
, Kym Marsh
, Kim Fenton
, Andrea Gerson
, Sara Mody
, Michelle Arsenault
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Rose Hately
, Susi Lovell
, Robert Hykawy
, Meghan Barton
, Stephanie Trotter
, Mary Woods
, Candace Fertile
, Charles Leblanc
, Lynn Bechtel
, Lindsey Andronak
, Paula Adam
, Kartik Gupta
, Joan Clare
, Chris Lantz
, Margaret McKay
, Robert Ratelle
, BJ Underwood
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Dorothy Wong
, Dorothy Wong
, Claire Gear
, Patricia McKeown
, Rebecca Dixon
, Kim Carswell
, Ken Gilmour
, Rodney Cross
, Shannon Lee
, Katie Macalister
, Anita Jones
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Lara Maynard
, Lisa Mallia
, Laura Patterson
, Claudie Léveillé
, Amy Peneder
, kristine hibbs
, Elizabeth Blondin
, Sue Zahorak
, Stephen Leckie
, Benita Hartwell
, Allison Dube
, Mary C. Kelly
, Kim Driscoll
, Klaryssa Hawkins
, Crystal Collins
, Kelly Pollock-Clemett
, Danielle MacKinlay
, Maureen Brownlee
, Lynn Andrews
, Sharon Forzley
, Janice Hutchinson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Sarah Butler
, A Walsh
editor@49thShelf.com
In sparkling, clear prose, understated yet unflinching, Open Season probes deep into the fissures of caste, class, religion, and gender in our world. Located mostly in India and Canada, the stories describe a world of global flows where a woman returns to India after her two daughters are killed in a school shooting in the US; in the title story a Muslim young man is lynched in an Indian town on the false charges that his fridge contains beef; "Light as a Butterfly" draws our attention to the ongoing degradation of the environment; in "All Cut Up," set in a suburb of Toronto, seven-year-old Zoya is heroically protected by her mother Zarina from her community's demand that she be circumcised. The stories speak of a world familiar and yet all too elusive, of a gentler, mellower, more hopeful time; they explore the charms and constraints of life in a small town and question assumptions and beliefs and dreams.
