Hider/Seeker

By (author): Jen Currin

The Globe 100 (The Globe & Mail’s favourite books of 2018). Silver IPPY Award (Independent Publisher Book Awards).
Hider/Seeker is the debut fiction collection from award-winning poet Jen Currin. These stories are about addiction and meditation, relationships and almost-relationships, solitude and sexuality. They take place in cafes, in snowy woods, on city street corners, and at Zen retreats – where conversations happen in the margins of books and filthy shoes are treated with reverence. Ex-wives reunite only to be confronted with their past; an aunt believes she has made a heart-breaking discovery about her niece; a seemingly never-ending hysterical pregnancy becomes the talk of a cafe. These stories are always unflinchingly honest in their portrayal of relationships – in particular the relationships of the book’s LGBTQ+ characters – as they navigate spirituality, monogamy, and sex. Currin invites the reader into the complicated lives of her characters and invites them to stay.
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AUTHOR

Jen Currin

Poems by Jen Currin have appeared in numerous North American journals, including: ‘The Fiddlehead’, ‘Mudfish’, ‘The Massachusetts Review’, ‘Diner’, ‘subTerrain’, ‘The Mississippi Review’, and ‘Washington Square’. In 2002, Mark Levine awarded her second place in River City’ annual poetry contest. Her chapbook ‘Ten Poems/Eleven Years’ was published by Breeds Like A Rumrunner (Vancouver, 2004). Her most recent collection, ‘Hagiography’, won Winnow Press’s 2005 Open Book Award. A graduate of Bard College and Arizona State University’s MFA program, Jen currently teaches creative writing at the Vancouver Film School and for Langara College’s Continuing Education program. While at ASU, she served as both assistant editor and poetry editor of ‘Hayden’s Ferry Review’ from 1999-2002. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Jen currently lives in Vancouver, BC, where she is a member of the poetry collective vertigo west.

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Dimensions:

224 Pages
8.06in * 5.64in * .55in
270gr

Published:

April 30, 2018

ISBN:

9781772141177

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Short Stories

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Language:

eng

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