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Fiction Literary

Coming Up for Air

by (author) Sarah Leipciger

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Mar 2020
Category
Literary, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487006501
    Publish Date
    Mar 2020
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487006518
    Publish Date
    Mar 2020
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9781487008895
    Publish Date
    Apr 2020
    List Price
    $34.99
  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9781487008901
    Publish Date
    Apr 2020
    List Price
    $34.99

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Description

A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine across oceans and time.

On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does not know it, her decision will set in motion an astonishing chain of events. It will lead to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toy-maker is on the cusp of a transformative invention, all the way to present-day Ottawa Valley in Canada, where a journalist, battling a terrible disease, risks everything for one last chance to live.

Taking inspiration from a remarkable true story, Coming Up for Air is a bold, richly imagined novel about the transcendent power of storytelling and the immeasurable impact of every human life. The legacy of the woman at its heart touches the lives of us all today, and this book reveals just how.

About the author

SARAH LEIPCIGER is the author of the acclaimed novel The Mountain Can Wait. She won THIS Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt and her stories have been shortlisted for the Asham Award, the Bridport Prize, the Fish Prize, and the PRISM International Short Fiction Contest. She holds a B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria and an M.A. in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths at the University in London, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing, also at Goldsmiths. Born in Canada, she now lives in London, U.K., with her husband and three children, where she teaches creative writing in prisons.

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Awards

  • Long-listed, Historical Writers’ Association Crown Award for Best Historical Fiction