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Now I Shall Leave You To Your Fate

This quartet of novellas asks the question: What is the line separating madness from sanity? Is mental well-being determined by accepted understandings of success and failure, or is it the product of biological and environmental stressors? In Now I Shall Leave You to Your Fate, Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Liz Harmer, Sophie McCreesh, and Fawn Parker examine the struggles of psychological crisis. A woman is pushed to the brink after witnessing a suicide in a shopping mall, a writer returning home is confronted with memories of her hospitalization in a psychiatric ward, a maladjusted neurotic comes to terms with her presence on social media, and a social outcast agrees to spy on his roommate on behalf of her ex-lover.

AUTHOR

Jean Marc Ah-Sen

Jean Marc Ah-Sen was born in East York, Ontario, in 1987. He comes from a family of Mauritian winemakers and was a frequent contributor to the Innis Herald, a University of Toronto newspaper. He lives in Toronto with his wife and son. Grand Menteur is his first novel. Find Ah-Sen on Facebook (www.facebook.com/jeanmarcahsen) or Twitter @jeanmarcahsen.

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Fawn Parker

Fawn Parker is a Giller-nominated author of five books including the forthcoming Hi, it’s me (McClelland & Stewart 2024). Her story “Feed Machine” was nominated for the 2020 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and her story “Wunderhorse II” was anthologized in André ForgetÂ’s After Realism, (Véhicule, 2022). Fawn is a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick and her work is represented by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid Agency.


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Dimensions:

168 Pages
8.50in * 5.50in * .55in
190.00gr

Published:

September 29, 2025

ISBN:

9781997544005

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Literary

Language:

eng

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