Echolocation

By (author): Karen Hofmann

Winner of Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
Third Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!
All Lit Up Book Club Selection

In this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuous imagery, Hofmann considers a range of human foibles: a newlywed couple who transform into feral beasts during the hardships of a remote research expedition; backbiting faculty members who strip down during a post-conference BBQ; an heretical nun who explores the possibility of a new life by imaginatively excavating the fossils of BC’s Burgess Shale; and an ambitious bylaw officer determined to make her mark on the city’s streets.

In Echolocation, Karen Hofmann has found new ways to sound the depths of the human heart.

AUTHOR

Karen Hofmann

Karen Hofmann lives in Kamloops, B.C. She has been published in Arc, Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review, and The Fiddlehead. Her book Water Strider was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Prize at the 2009 BC Book Awards, and “The Burgess Shale” was shortlisted at the 2012 CBC Short Fiction Contest. Her first novel After Alice was released in Spring 2014.

Reviews

Praise for Echolocation:

Echolocation is a magical and surreal examination of humanity at the edges of experience.”
~ Kristian Wilson, Bustle

“…lived up to our high expectations.”
~ Kerry Clare, 49th Shelf

“Dark stories weave together beauty and cruelty.”
~ Rory Runnells, Winnipeg Free Press

“[In ‘Virtue Prudence Courage,’] Hofmann’s adjustment of narrative perspective is so masterfully subtle that I had to go back to see when and how exactly this ordinary love story became a weird horror story.”
~ Stephanie L. Lu, Canadian Literature

“…lived up to our high expectations.”
~ Kerry Clare, 49th Shelf

“Part Darwinian, part Ovidian, these are waltzing and desirous tales of transformation, thrumming with verdant light reaching through forest canopies. Hofmann’s characters are strange creatures bumping against one another in the shadows, with cracking voices seeking to connect. And then, when you least expect it, mad leaps from the dark into the light.”
~ R.W. Gray, author of Entropic and Crisp


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Winner of Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
Third Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!
All Lit Up Book Club Selection

In this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuous imagery, Hofmann considers a range of human foibles: a newlywed couple who transform into feral beasts during the hardships of a remote research expedition; backbiting faculty members who strip down during a post-conference BBQ; an heretical nun who explores the possibility of a new life by imaginatively excavating the fossils of BC’s Burgess Shale; and an ambitious bylaw officer determined to make her mark on the city’s streets.

In Echolocation, Karen Hofmann has found new ways to sound the depths of the human heart.

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Details

Dimensions:

256 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 1in
1lb

Published:

May 01, 2019

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

NeWest Press

ISBN:

9781988732565

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Short Stories

Language:

eng

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