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Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award, and a Regional Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book
Longing, familiarity, and hope suffuse these stories as they mine the charged territory of relationships – subtly weaving in conflicts between generations and cultures. Madeleine Thien’s characters in some way want to make amends, to understand the events that have shaped their lives. A young woman searches back in time for the pivotal moment when her family lost faith in itself. Two sisters keep a vigil outside their former house, hoping their long-absent mother will appear one last time. A wife helps her husband grieve for the woman he has loved since childhood. A daughter remembers the simple ritual she once shared with her father and the moment when her unconditional love for him was called into question. Compassionate and revealing, delicate and wise, these stories chart the uneven progress of love and lay bare the heartbreaking truths at the core of our closest bonds.
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About the Author
Madeleine Thien was born in Vancouver. Her short stories and essays have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, including Best Canadian Stories, The Journey Prize Anthology, Islands West: Stories from the Coast, and Write Turns: New Directions in Canadian Fiction. She has also written and recorded for CBC Radio.
Simple Recipes, her first book of fiction, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award, was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region), and was named a notable book by the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. The manuscript for this collection won the 1998 Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop’s Emerging Writer Award. In 2001, Thien won the CAA Air Canada Award for most promising Canadian writer under the age of thirty.
Madeleine Thien lives in Vancouver, where she is at work on her first novel.
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