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Bloomsbury USA
September 2014
On Sale: September 16, 2014
Featuring: Eliza Robertson
304 pages
ISBN: 1620408155
EAN: 9781620408155
Kindle: B00M6XNGWI
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In the opening story of Wallflowers, a girl is cat-sitting
for her neighbor, sleeping in the neighbor's house. It's
nearly identical to her mother's nearby—in the Copper Waters
subdivision, they all are—but she likes it here, eating
boiled eggs and watching TV, feeling out her freedom as
heavy rains fall. And then a nearby dike fails. And the girl
may be the only one left in Copper Waters. Eliza Robertson can handle the shocking turn, but she also
has a knack for the slow surprise, the realization that
settles around you like snow. Her stories are deftly
constructed and their perspectives—often those of the loners
and onlookers, distanced by their gifts of observation—are
unexpected. In “We Walked on Water,” winner of the
Commonwealth Short Story Prize, a brother and sister train
together for a race that will ultimately separate them forever. In “L'Étranger,” shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize,
a girl abroad in Marseille reconsiders her unendearing
roommate after an intimate confrontation. Robertson was
raised on rugged Vancouver Island. She's traveled broadly
since, and her stories travel, too, but the climate of her
collection is influenced by her home. These carefully
cultivated forms still flare with wildness, and each is
still spacious enough for a reader to get lost in wonder.
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