The Electric Man
Single Story Taken From This Will Be Difficult To Explain And Ot
Giller prize winning Johanna Skibsrud’s stories are both wise and querying, showing us through her characters’ eyes what even they cannot see. In “The Electric Man,” a woman’s safe world is confronted and doubted by an unusual man. Does he despise her, or like her too much? Through their uneasy time together, false perceptions give way to greater truths.
JOHANNA SKIBSRUD is the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists as well as the novel Quartet for the End of Time and the short story collections Tiger, Tiger and This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories. She is also the author of three poetry collections, including The Description of the World, which won the 2017 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and the Fred Cogswell Award. Originally from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, she currently divides her time between Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and Tucson, Arizona.
Island
Johanna Skibsrud
Tiger, Tiger
Johanna Skibsrud
Sometimes We Think You Are a Monkey
Johanna Skibsrud and Sarah Blacker; illustrated by Julie Morstad
The Sentimentalists
Johanna Skibsrud
Quartet for the End of Time
Johanna Skibsrud
This Will Be Difficult To Explain and Other Stories
Johanna Skibsrud