Who Will Bury You
Ryan Woods
, Tanya Blake
, Charly Wreggitt
, Lindsey Drake
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Benita Hartwell
, cassandra schiemann
, Brad MULLER
, Jude Castillo
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Janet Miller
, Marilyn Stanley
, Rodney Cross
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Beth Dekoker
, Laurie Burns
, Dot Mann
, Martine Fabris
, Vaishnavi Shanoj
, Sharon Forzley
, Bronya Mazereeuw
, Chris Carvalho
, Rosa Cross
, Brittney Warren
, toni velthuis
, Joshua Lewis
, Cheryl Johnson
, Rita Osullivan
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Sarah Schwartz
, Alanna Virtue
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Noelle Walsh
, Natasha Andres
, Laura Patterson
, Nicole Maxwell
, Isisus Western
, Agnes Marshall
, Danielle Kat
, Andrea Pole
, Barry Kazimer
, Cherryl Koylass
, Holly Elisabeth
, Sandra Lackie
, Maureen Brownlee
, Presley Robertson
, Lynn Andrews
, enid wray
, Mike Broderick
, Dorothy Wong
, Jessica Casas
, Joseph Chirayil
, Yutong Wu
, Kim Carswell
, Tori Levang
, Jessica Currier
, Sara Conway
, Lisa Reynolds
, Patricia McKeown
, M. Ingibergsson
, Dru Edmiston
, Roland Schigas
, Margaret McKay
, Michelle Arsenault
, Diane McPherson
, BJ Underwood
, Maria Mclean
, Kartik Gupta
, Janice Cournoyer
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Emily Johansen
, Sonia Adams
, Lucian Childs
, Patricia Johnson
, Lynn Bechtel
, Karyn Newton
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kim Cappellina
, Lisa Mallia
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Chantal Comeau
, Tanis Anne
, Huguette Settle
, Lindsey Andronak
, Tami Osato
, Jen Bailey
, Alice Meems
, Val Ross
, Ellen Clarke
, Ken Gilmour
, Hailey Slaviero
, Randi Ann Doll
, Stef Novakowski
, Robert Ratelle
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Sophie Wensel
, Stacey Paton
, Katie Kah
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Meghan Barton
, Andre Labonte
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Hoda Montazeri
, Alissa Bender
, Thelma Ball
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
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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.
