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, 2018
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
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
The Electric Man
Johanna Skibsrud
Code Noir
Canisia Lubrin
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
Homesickness
Colin Barrett
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
A Minor Chorus
Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl
The Pretender
Jo Harkin
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
A Great Country
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
A Line You Have Traced
Roisin Dunnett
Until August
Gabriel García Márquez
Open, Heaven
Seán Hewitt
The Maid's Secret
Nita Prose
The Golden Doves
Martha Hall Kelly
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Homesickness
Colin Barrett
Coexistence
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Shashi Bhat
Normal Rules Don't Apply
Kate Atkinson
Last Woman
Carleigh Baker
Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret Atwood
The Goodbye Cat
Hiro Arikawa, Translated by Philip Gabriel
Uncertain Kin
Janice Lynn Mather
Sans Souci
Dionne Brand
Games and Rituals
Katherine Heiny
Animal Person
Alexander MacLeod
Stray Dogs
Rawi Hage