Blessed Nowhere

By (author): Catherine Black

After the tragic loss of her son, Abby attempts to escape her grief by taking to the open road, only to find herself in Central Mexico in a hotel that’s home to other lost souls.

It’s the late nineties, when it is still possible to disappear, and Abby is at an impasse between self-destruction and dissolution. Just months after the death of her son, in a last-ditch effort to escape her reality, Abby buys a $500 car, tucks a buck knife in her glove box, and makes one impulsive move: she takes an exit south and keeps driving. It’s in a small town in central Mexico that Abby’s physical journey comes to an end, and it’s there amongst other outcasts and expats that Abby might finally choose to see beyond her own grief.

AUTHOR

Catherine Black

Catherine Black has wandered her way back to Toronto where she was born and raised and now lives with her husband and son. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of writing at OCAD University. Black is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s M.F.A. writing program, and her poetry and fiction has appeared in various Canadian and American literary journals including The Fiddlehead, The Harpweaver, Scrivener Creative Review, Rhino, Preling and Palimpsest. Her first book of prose poetry, Lessons of Chaos and Disaster, was published as part of Guernica Editions’ First Poet Series in 2007. A Hard Gold Thread is her first prose work. 

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“ltpgtThis is a novel rich withlife and empathy in a sea of grief One of the most beautiful books I have readltpgt”
Nazanine Hozar Guernica Prize judge

Awards

  • Guernica Prize 2023, Winner
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    Dimensions:

    250 Pages
    8in * 5in * .65in
    1gr

    Published:

    October 31, 2024

    Publisher:

    Guernica Editions

    ISBN:

    9781771839112

    Book Subjects:

    FICTION / Literary

    Language:

    eng

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