Mouthing the Words
"Moving and comic at once. . . . Hallucinatory, hilarious, and haunting." —Boston Globe
Thelma is six years old, and life at home is unsettling and disturbing. When her family moves from England to Canada, she encounters potential parents to replace her deeply flawed pair and even makes some friends, but mostly she lives in the fertile, extraordinarily vivid, and skewed world of her own imagination. Reminiscent of Jeanette Winterson and Sylvia Plath, and by turns harrowing and wonderfully funny, Mouthing the Words is the remarkable first novel from bestselling author Camilla Gibb.
$19.95
June 13, 2017
CAMILLA GIBB was born in London, England, and grew up in Toronto. She is the author of four internationally acclaimed novels—Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life, Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement—as well as the bestselling memoir This is Happy. Camilla has been the recipient of the Trillium Book Award, the City of Toronto Book Award and the CBC Canadian Literary Award and has been shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She has a Ph.D. from Oxford University and is an adjunct faculty member of the graduate creative writing programs at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph.
Visit her at www.camillagibb.com
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Sweetness in the Belly
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Mouthing the Words
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This Is Happy
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The Beauty of Humanity Movement
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The Journey Prize Stories 21
Selected by Camilla Gibb, Lee Henderson, and Rebecca Rosenblum
Sweetness in the Belly
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