Far Cry
"A brilliant, hynotic work"—Madeleine Thien
"Beautiful and deeply moving"—Steven Price
"A bracing, electrifying dive into another world, other lives"—Marina Endicott
"This novel brought my heart to a new place"—Claire Cameron
"Rich and strange"—Shaena Lambert
In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada's most distinctive writers, evokes an era of unspoken desires in which pain and longing are braided together along treacherous lines.
It's 1922 at Far Cry Cannery, a quarter-mile of boardwalk and wooden buildings strung along the rocks of Rivers Inlet on the northwest coast of British Columbia. The time has come for Anders Viken, storekeeper and honorary uncle to the recently orphaned Kit, to give an account of his secret self—from his first home in…
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February 6, 2024
Alissa York’s internationally acclaimed novels include Mercy, Effigy (shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize), Fauna and, most recently, The Naturalist (winner of the Canadian Author’s Association Fiction Award). Stories from her short fiction collection, Any Given Power, have won the Journey Prize and the Bronwen Wallace Award; her essays and articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Brick magazine and elsewhere. York has lived all over Canada and now makes her home in Toronto with her husband, artist Clive Holden. She teaches Creative Writing at the Humber School for Writers.
Far Cry
Alissa York
The Naturalist
Alissa York
Fauna
Alissa York
The Journey Prize Stories 22
Selected by Pasha Malla, Joan Thomas, and Alissa York
Effigy
Alissa York