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Fiction Contemporary Women

Other Maps

by (author) Rebecca Morris

Publisher
Linda Leith Publishing
Initial publish date
Sep 2024
Category
Contemporary Women, Friendship, Feminist
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781773901626
    Publish Date
    Sep 2024
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781773901640
    Publish Date
    Sep 2024
    List Price
    $11.99

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Description

Anna Leverett is home for her dad's retirement party and counting the days until she can leave. She is sick of being reminded that her life has consisted of wrong turns and dead ends. Then a meeting with her ex-best friend Helen raises unexpected questions about her past: What really happened at that New Year's party back in high school? How true were all those ugly rumours? With Helen at her side, Anna can finally reckon with her past and chart a course towards a better future.
Moving through rape culture, beauty myths, and the perils women face in a society that stigmatizes them just for being female, Other Maps traces a path to courage, solidarity and hope.

About the author

Originally from Guelph, Rebecca (Atkinson) Morris lives in Montreal. She earned an M.A. in French from Dalhousie, had three children in three years and taught high school before turning to writing full time. Rebecca's short stories have won several awards, including the Malahat Review Open Season Award and the Humber Literary Review Emerging Writers Fiction contest. She is a Banff Centre alumna, recipient of a Canada Council Arts grant and an active member of the Quebec Writers' Federation, where she has taught workshops on short fiction and narrative structure. Other Maps is her first novel.

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Editorial Reviews

"A novel wired with the kind of pain we think we can?t live without. Morris is empathetic and explicit about the costs of healing in this exciting, intelligent debut." —Paige Cooper
"A beautiful exploration of sisterhood, memory and the stories we tell ourselves, Other Maps is both timely and timeless. With a sharp eye for detail and a deep empathy for the messiest among us, Morris gives us a friendship that you will never forget." —Julie Lalonde