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An uplifting celebration of the joy that love in all its unique, quirky and diverse dimensions can bring us.

Finalist for the 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize – Shortlisted for the 2024 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize – Shortlisted for the 2025 Raymond Souster Award – Longlisted for the 2025 Gerald La

For readers of Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come for Us, here is a searing, multidimensional debut about the search for language and self, which is life itself.

Finalist, 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Finalist, 2025 DC Reid Poetry Book Prize.

Winner of the Prix des libraires, the Indigenous Voices award, the Prix littéraire des enseignant.e.s de Français, and the Coup de Cœur Renaud-Bray, and finalist for the Prix Alain-Grandbois Dual-l

Longlisted, 2025 Toronto Book Awards.

Shortlisted, 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Shortlisted, 2025 Forward Prize for Best Collection of Poetry.

Written over the course of four decades, this collection of 12 stories centers around Depression-era Texas.

In rural Michigan, the American dream, if it ever existed, lies discarded like so much rusty scrap metal.

Lost in the City features 15 poignant short stories, each set in Washington, D.C.

In his debut collection, Gay brings to life 13 stories about a diverse group of colorful characters living in the fertile Tennessee country land.

A collection of short stories presents a compelling cast of characters who struggle with inconvenient revelations, from the deserts of Egypt to the side of Interstate 5.

Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it.

Presents five of the author's most acclaimed short stories.

Includes 75 poems as well as commentary and readings from some of Emily's letters and notes.