Prajwala Dixit, an Indian-Canadian engineer, journalist/columnist, playwright, author, is an award-winning community...
Us, Now
Author: Ayse Sule Akinturk, Lisa Moore, Prajwala Dixit, Richard Elcock, Santiago Guzman, Sobia Shaheen Shaikh, Tzu-Hao Hsu, William Ping, Xavier Campbell, Zay Nova
Genre: Fiction, Short Stories
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
Dimensions: 5.25 × 8 in
Weight: 1 kg
Published: April 2, 2021
ISBN: 9781550818819
Us, Now roves from Indonesia to the Middle East, Taiwan, Mexico, China, Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Pakistan, and points in between, converging in Newfoundland. These stories by racialized Newfoundlanders are by turns joyous, tender, hilarious, and heart-wrenching. They confront racism and celebrate the act of enduring. They are about settling and getting unsettled, about parents and their children, about language, about facing down the horrors of homophobia, about the joy of love, about lifelong relationships or the glee of a magnificent crush. Here social and domestic violence are countered with tenderness and the penetrating power of narrative. This is a book about distance and coming together, about what it means to be seen and understood, or—devastatingly—to be seen and judged, or to be invisible and misunderstood. What it means to belong. These are new writers and new visions of an in-the-present-moment Newfoundland, stories shaped by powerful voices, stories urgent, radical, and sparking with beauty.
Buy This
$22.95
About the Author
Santiago Guzman
Santiago Guzman is a writer and performer originally from Mexico City and now based in St. John’s. He holds a BFA...
Tzu-Hao Hsu
Tzu-Hao Hsu was born in Taiwan and raised in Newfoundland. A proud Taiwanese Townie, living is St. John’s, she is...
Zay Nova
Zay Nova is originally from Bangka, Indonesia, and currently lives in Paradise, NL.
William Ping
William Ping is from St. John’s. His work has been previously featured on CBC Radio and in Riddle Fence.
Sobia Shaheen Shaikh
Sobia Shaheen Shaikh is a social-work educator, researcher, and antiracist-feminist activist from St. John’s.
Ayse Akinturk
Ayse Akinturk was born and raised in Istanbul. She holds a doctoral degree in political science and lives in St. John’s.
Richard Elcock
Richard Elcock was born in York, ON, and lives in St. John’s.
Lisa Moore
LISA MOORE is the author of Degrees of Nakedness, Open, Alligator, February, Caught, Something for Everyone, and the...