Tiger, Tiger
Shortlisted for the 2019 Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction
A collection of intrepid and incisive stories from the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists
Tiger, Tiger takes readers from the Paradise Valley Senior Centre parking lot all the way to Mars and examines the contradictions of life along the way. An astounding array of characters come up against the challenges of existence--both mundane and extraordinary--and their experiences never fail to surprise and delight.
A scientist finds the truth about love in a lab where he is learning to grow extinct tigers. A fake wedding at a nursing home brings a divorcée to the brink of despair while her grandmother marvels at the beauty around her. A small-town taxidermist realizes his…
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April 3, 2018JOHANNA 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
The Sentimentalists
Johanna Skibsrud
Quartet for the End of Time
Johanna Skibsrud
Sometimes We Think You Are a Monkey
Johanna Skibsrud and Sarah Blacker; illustrated by Julie Morstad
This Will Be Difficult To Explain and Other Stories
Johanna Skibsrud