Slow Fix - Softcover

Coyote, Ivan E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1458776166 ISBN 13: 9781458776167

Synopsis

Ivan E. Coyote is one of Canada's most acclaimed storytellers; her first three collections were insightful, deeply personal stories about gender, identity, and community. Ivan's most recent book, Bow Grip (2006), was her first novel; it won the ReLit Award, was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Fiction Prize in the US, and was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association.With The Slow Fix, Ivan returns to her short story roots in a collection that is disarming, warm, and funny while at the same time subverting our pre-conceived notions of gender roles. In "By Any Other Name," Ivan gets into some serious male bonding with her Uncle Rob; in "The Curse?" a cousin's stepdaughter helps her to overcome her lifelong dread of buying tampons; and in the title story, she does her best to fix what's wrong in the world by telling the homophobe in the barber's seat next to hers to shut up.Ivan excels at finding the small yet significant truths in our everyday gestures and interactions. By doing so, she helps us to embrace not what makes us women or men, but human beings.

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Review:

These stories are elegant and homespun, light and piercing, straightforward with a twist. Ivan Coyote unsettles and reassures with a single, skilled stroke.
--Alison Bechdel, author of "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic"--Alison Bechdel"Alison Bechdel" (08/05/2008)

About the Author:

Ivan E. Coyote is originally from the Yukon, and now lives in Vancouver. She is the author of three previous story collections and the award-winning novel, Bow Grip.

About this edition

• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1458776166
• ISBN 13: 9781458776167
• Binding: Paperback