Who Will Bury You
Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Rita O'Sullivan
, Taya Young
, Barry Kazimer
, Janet Miller
, Teagan Sedberry
, cassandra schiemann
, Jude Castillo
, Marilyn Stanley
, Dot Mann
, Alanna Virtue
, Dawn Macdonald
, Agnes Marshall
, Maria Zuppardi
, Marissa Yip-Young
, jaynie jackson
, Mary Therrien
, Joan Clare
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Brad MULLER
, Yutong Wu
, Trish Bowering
, Anita Janik-Jones
, Brittney Warren
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Carol Saponja
, Ching Ching Wu
, Katie Macalister
, Louise Walsh
, Natasha Andres
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Andrea Pole
, Holly Elisabeth
, Sarah Schwartz
, liv Girardin
, Joshua Lewis
, Nicole Maxwell
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Dorothy Wong
, Dorothy Wong
, Sara Hawkins
, Noelle Walsh
, Emily Steiner
, Mark Gorman
, Allison Dube
, Sharon Forzley
, Cheryl Johnson
, Jennifer Thiessen
, Natasa Ilic
, Laurie Burns
, Davina Liew
, Stacey Paton
, Ashlee Blais
, Kelsey Attard
, Chris Lantz
, Denica StP
, Kartik Gupta
, Nicki D'Angelo
, Roland Schigas
, Anneka Chambers
, Kym Marsh
, Nicholas Graham
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Diane McPherson
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Anne McGouran
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Lisha Hassanali
, Sara Conway
, jane luce
, Vanessa Seto
, Charlotte Gray
, Meghan Barton
, Stephanie Trotter
, Joe Titone
, Gwynn Scheltema
, M M English
, Michelle Wong
, Marla Schecter Howard
, M. Ingibergsson
, C. Ray
, Sara Erskine
, Shannon Lee
, Anne Range
, Benita Hartwell
, Susan Terendy
, Olivia Pellegrino
, Rebecca Dixon
, Virginia Reddin
, Susi Lovell
, Damen Rae
, Ellen Clarke
, Michelle Onyango
, Rodney Cross
, jen Black
, Janet Meisner
, diana kirkwood
, Lisa Mallia
, Karyn Newton
, Hana Iudin
, Hannah Law
, Anna Krentz
, toni velthuis
, Ken Gilmour
, susan pratten
, Cherryl Koylass
, Charles Leblanc
, Kristen Nikola
, Alex Henderson
, Rosa Cross
, Joseph Chirayil
, Debbie Rodgers
, Paris Semansky
, Melanie Solar
, Elaine Baptie
, Kristen Bach
, Hoda Montazeri
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Christopher Evans
, Madelyn Brittain
, Morgan Stewart
, Wendi Waage
, Sandra Lackie
, Faaria Samnani
, Russell Reitsema
, Insha Khan
, Joe Mitchell
, Arvia Chen
, Anne Baldo
, Elmira Olson
, Kim Carswell
, Augustine Mudzudza
, CAROLINA FAMILIA
, Charly Wreggitt
, Catherine Westerberg
, Melissa Poremba
, Tanya Blake
, Chris Carvalho
, Sonia Navvuru
, Danielle Pigeau
, Kim Cappellina
, Bianca Jeannotte
, Lucian Childs
, Macy McCubbing
, colleen coco collins
, Lynn Andrews
, Catherine Booker
, Taryn Hubbard
, Andrea Gillespie
, Laura Patterson
, Kate Hudson
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Rachel Edmonds
, Randi Ann Doll
, Michelle Canfield
, Lindsay Gloade-Raining Bird
, Lori Campbell
, Emily Johansen
, Lindsey Andronak
, Lori Bardell
, Tanis Anne
, Lynn Bechtel
, Jacqueline Chenier
, Janice Cournoyer
, Michelle Arsenault
, P. Thompson
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Intimate stories about Zimbabweans in moments of transition that force them to decide who they really are and choose the people they call their own.
Set in Toronto and Zimbabwe, the twelve elegant stories in Who Will Bury You? touch on themes of loss, identity, and inequality as they follow the lives of Zimbabweans who often feel like they are on the outside looking in. A mother and daughter navigate new relationship dynamics when the daughter comes out as a lesbian. Two sisters wonder what will hold them together after their grandmother’s death. A daughter tries to tell her father she loves him as she prepares to leave home for the first time. A journalist takes her grieving mother on a trip to report on girls who are allegedly being abducted by mermaids. A girl born to be the river god’s wife becomes a hero when chaos breaks out in the mighty Zambezi. A group of mothers discover just how far they are willing to go to protect their children during wartime.
Ephemeral yet beautifully satisfying, the stories in Chido Muchemwa's debut collection ask what makes people leave home, what makes them come back, and what keeps them there.
